another Dominican baseball black eye.

jaguarbob · #1 02-19-2009, 08:12 AM

FOX Sports on MSN - MLB - Leading Nats prospect faked age, name

Celt202 · #2 02-19-2009, 08:37 AM

This is disturbing. One or more people had to lie and deceive for this to happen.

Does this mean that there are more people in the DR who are capable of lying and cheating?

The Horror.

Kyle · #3 02-19-2009, 11:21 AM

what is disturbing is the resemblance to a country called Mexico

suarezn · #4 02-19-2009, 01:10 PM

If these teams are so concerned about the age of a kid, why don't they spend a little bit of money to investigate. It is not THAT hard to find this out. The problem is they are blinded by greed and they see this incredible prospect who is going to "save" their team and they turn a blind eye to it.

There's a quite a difference between a 16 and a 20 year old...so if you're trying to sign a "16 year old" who's got a five o'clock shadow larger then yours at least investigate a bit or don't complain later. Besides it looks like the guy can really play as he led the league in batting average...I bet they are not going to get rid of him as long as he's producing...Bunch of hypocrites the are.

Chip · #5 02-19-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by suarezn

If these teams are so concerned about the age of a kid, why don't they spend a little bit of money to investigate. It is not THAT hard to find this out. The problem is they are blinded by greed and they see this incredible prospect who is going to "save" their team and they turn a blind eye to it.

There's a quite a difference between a 16 and a 20 year old...so if you're trying to sign a "16 year old" who's got a five o'clock shadow larger then yours at least investigate a bit or don't complain later. Besides it looks like the guy can really play as he led the league in batting average...I bet they are not going to get rid of him as long as he's producing...Bunch of hypocrites the are.

If you know how birth records are kept here in small towns it isn't that hard to believe that someone paid the right amount of money could do a little falsifying - and 40% of 1.6M is still a lot of meat left on that chicken bone.

suarezn · #6 02-19-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Chip

If you know how birth records are kept here in small towns it isn't that hard to believe that someone paid the right amount of money could do a little falsifying - and 40% of 1.6M is still a lot of meat left on that chicken bone.

I know how they are kept (my own birth certificate has a different date than I was really born), but my point is these teams could pay someone (a lawyer) to do this digging for them. You can falsify the copy at the little town he was born in, but it would take a major conspiracy to falsify all the copies of the original document.

Every birth certificate has an original that resides in the central offices in Santo Domingo and this is a major pain to even get a small change through (thus the reason I've left mine the way it is). It requires a judge to carry out a sentence on it and a bunch of other legal junk...

Someone could carry out this investigation the same way it was carried out recently and look through school registration records, hospital records, baptism records, etc...Again it can possibly be done, but it would require a major conspiracy. I wonder how they found out now...