( CNN ) -- No way , Jose . What else can you say when Jose Canseco -- the former baseball slugger who accidentally shot his own finger last month -- claims that part of said finger fell off during a poker tournament ? No word yet on whether Canseco won the hand , but he does n't seem to be too broken up about it , given the tenor of his Twitter feed . `` I put my finger in the freezer , '' he wrote . `` Anyone want appetizers ? '' The joke stems from an incident earlier this week that no one else has reported independently , outside of Canseco 's tweets . He claims that someone has a video of part of his finger coming off during a poker tournament , yet that footage has n't been broadcast by anyone . Jose Melendez , Canseco 's representative , told CNN that the ex-player 's camp has the video and may sell it to media outlets . For now , though , all the world has to work from is Canseco 's Twitter feed -- the same place where , just a few days ago , he was opining that `` comet transport is the key to our survival '' in the wake of the European Space Agency 's putting a vehicle on a comet after a 310-million mile journey . And , even for those with a strong stomach , it 's a lot to digest . It starts with his admission Friday that `` my finger fell off '' during a poker tournament the previous night . Canseco then chimes in with this tweet : `` My finger should have been amputated from the beginning . It was very loose with no bone to connect it . it was also smelling really bad . '' And for good measure , the one-time Oakland A 's basher shared a gruesome photo Saturday of his finger before it fell off . `` I bet a long time ago you could easily loose ( sic ) a finger a hand or even your life in a poker game if you could n't pay up , '' Canseco joked . It all stems from an incident last month , when Canseco accidentally shot himself in a finger on his left hand while cleaning a handgun , according to Las Vegas police . Canseco tweets photo of wounded hand . The incident helped bring Canseco -- who won the American League Rookie of the Year award in 1986 , was the league MVP two years later and finished his 17-season career with 450 home runs -- back into the public spotlight . Besides his exploits on the field , the admitted steroid user has claimed there was widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball . He wrote two books on the subject : `` Juiced : Wild Times , Rampant 'Roids , Smash Hits , and How Baseball Got Big '' and `` Vindicated : Big Names , Big Liars , and the Battle to Save Baseball . '' Fast facts on Jose Canseco . CNN 's Carma Hassan , Veronica George and Jill Martin contributed to this report .
Jose Canseco tweets about a recent incident at a poker tournament . He claims part of the finger he 'd accidentally shot had fallen off . Canseco says the finger fragment was `` very loose , '' smelled bad . The baseball slugger was a central figure in MLB 's steroids controversy .