Jose Canseco lied to us all about his finger falling off

Like many things on the Internet, some of what shows up on Jose Canseco's Twitter feed is too good to be true.

A perfect example is that made-to-grab-headlines moment last week when Canseco said his reattached finger fell off during a poker tournament.

Turns out Canseco made it up. It was a hoax, he admitted to TMZ Sports, inspired by Halloween. Canseco shooting off his finger isn't a hoax — at least as far as we know. But that odd Chapter Two, when it supposedly fell off and was caught on camera? Never happened.

Per TMZ Sports:

We contacted Canseco about video he says he shot of the finger fail -- and when push came to shove ... he had to cop to the prank. Jose says he cooked up the plan when he came across the fake finger in a Halloween store.

That means earlier this week, when Canseco was talking about selling his detached digit, that was a lie too. Well, we think. Maybe he's lying to TMZ about lying. Maybe he's really a genius scientist conducting a social experiment on all of us. Maybe he's lying about being Jose Canseco. Maybe he's really Ozzie.

Canseco had Tweeted a picture of his detached finger, but he's since deleted it. And he's been quiet on Twitter for almost a day. You gotta figure he's up to something.