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one year is ok but not a crooked number
by wilriv21 on Mar 11, 2009 7:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
We hold these truths to be self-evident
Water is wet
Steve Phillips is a moron
Latin prospects lie about their age
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 11, 2009 7:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Actually, This Bad Habit Seems To Be Very Much Limited To The The Dominican Republic.
I have not heard of this problem with players from other “latin” countries.
by giantsrainman on Mar 11, 2009 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not the Cubans?
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 11, 2009 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
communists don't believe in birth certificates
"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."
by i did my job on Mar 11, 2009 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
true
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 11, 2009 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I thought they cracked down on falsified documents after 9/11
Your homeland security tax dollars at work.
Seriously, though. Last time this happened, most of the cases involved players filling out the date incorrectly (it goes DD/MM/YY pretty much everywhere except America, an obvious source of confusion)
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by Bhaakon on Mar 11, 2009 7:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
it goes DD/MM/YY pretty much everywhere except America, an obvious source of confusion
Yeah, what the hell is up with the way it’s done in America? Makes no sense.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
by Cookyman on Mar 12, 2009 8:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You Hate Our Freedom!
Go The Hell Back To Russia!
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below.500
We are at war with Los Angeles. We have always been at war with Los Angeles.
by S.F. Giangst on Mar 12, 2009 8:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
AND FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD’S SAKE, JUST USE THE METRIC SYSTEM ALREADY!!!
DAMN!!!
by Lars The Wanderer on Mar 12, 2009 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
God loves gallons and if you disagree you must eat cheese and kill puppies.
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below.500
We are at war with Los Angeles. We have always been at war with Los Angeles.
by S.F. Giangst on Mar 12, 2009 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
USE THE METRIC SYSTEM OR YOUR COUNTRY SHALL PERISH IN FLAMES!!
by Lars The Wanderer on Mar 12, 2009 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just love that all the teachers who told me that I was going to be screwed in life if I didn’t learn the metric system (the same thing they have been saying for decades) turned out to be so wrong.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Mar 12, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
In elementary school, my teachers told me that cursive was the way adults write.
THAT WAS A DIRTY LIE MRS FOLSE.
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by groug on Mar 12, 2009 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s my understanding that it was used a lot more before computers became omnipresent.
But yeah.
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by jcb9 on Mar 12, 2009 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that might be true
a lot of old people still write in cursive, which always frustrates me
by FluLikeSymptoms on Mar 12, 2009 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What’s wrong with cursive?
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by WalrusMan on Mar 14, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Where’s 7-11?
(instert molestation joke here)
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by jcb9 on Mar 13, 2009 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s just shorthand for the way we would say it outloud:
“June 18th 1977” = 06/18/1977
I won’t argue that the way we say it outloud makes a lot of sense though.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
by SF Pete on Mar 12, 2009 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Now I’m wondering if we say it that way because of how we write it.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
by SF Pete on Mar 12, 2009 7:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This way makes no sense anyway. If I’m writing a date, typically I’ll go 09/3/12. Puts everything in a perfectly chronological order.
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by WalrusMan on Mar 12, 2009 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
dammit
by FairweatherFan on Mar 12, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
September 12th, 3?
Why the heck would you pick that date?
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Mar 12, 2009 7:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
YYMMDD
Makes way more sense on a computer. Keeps the files in chronological order.
by FairweatherFan on Mar 12, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm sure my boy is legit.
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
by BrianBokake on Mar 11, 2009 7:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Any chance Zito lied about his age?
Proud father of Eric Surkamp!!!
by The Thrill on Mar 11, 2009 9:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
i’m not too worried about Villalona. Dominican birth certificates may lie, but that babyface he had in this article looks about 16 to me:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/26/SPG4MLCNCV1.DTL
if he was lying, it’s not by much.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Mar 11, 2009 10:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
He's still a baby
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 11, 2009 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Several Latino players have said they lied about their ages in recent years, including Vladimir Guerrero and Miguel Tejada.
Updated March 11 , 2009…from when , 1996?
OK if I adopt Randy Johnson?
"What kind of a stupid question is that?"
by victor frankenstein on Mar 11, 2009 11:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And They Are Both Dominician
Cuba is the only other county this seems to in practice. You don’t hear about it from Mexico, Venezuala, Columbia, Panama, Porto Rico, any of the teritorial islands of the Netherlands. It seems to be mainly Dominicians with a few Cuban defectors.
Bottom line, calling it a “latin problem” is a false sterotype bordering on racist.
by giantsrainman on Mar 12, 2009 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“Porto Rico” isn’t a country, it’s a US territory, and its residents are US citizens.
Also, Columbia is a university in uptown Manhattan. The country is called Colombia.
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by jcb9 on Mar 12, 2009 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And while I’m not well versed on the subject, I don’t think people from the Netherlands Antilles can really be considered Latin/Latino/Hispanic. The term refers to Spanish (and sometimes Portugese) speaking cultures.
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by jcb9 on Mar 12, 2009 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nah
I don’t see any racism in it. It’s not a problem for Mexican prospects/players because the ones I can think of making an impact in baseball right now have spent significant time in the US or were even born here. Adrian Gonzalez was born in San Diego, Yovani Gallardo attended high school in Texas. Jorge Cantu (hey he was good once) was born in Texas. It’s easy for them to get their stuff straightened out.
It’s not to say that all Dominicans falsify information, either. Since their numbers are so great in MLB, there’s a larger number of odds to play here. When you compare the talent pool of Dominicans vs. all the other nations you named, DR outnumbers them all on its own. What’s to say that Colombians or Nicaraguans didn’t or don’t falsify their documents? They just haven’t been caught, if they did do it. And I’m sure if Cuba ever opened thier doors up and let the prospects come over here, they’d rival DR’s numbers in the league. And the odds of falsifying info go up.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 12, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah his real name is Julio. It’s Francisco.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
by Cookyman on Mar 13, 2009 4:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn
Isn’t Julio.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
by Cookyman on Mar 13, 2009 4:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You were going to make funny and then you didn’t.
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below.500
We are at war with Los Angeles. We have always been at war with Los Angeles.
by S.F. Giangst on Mar 13, 2009 5:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s OK Cookyman, it happens to a lot of guys.
Mostly Goofus and howtheyscored.
by xanthan on Mar 13, 2009 5:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m just under a lot of pressure at work.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
by Cookyman on Mar 13, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not worried about either of them.
And I don’t suggest worrying about any major bonus baby of recent. For quite some time now, interested parties have researched these things quite carefully. But this only goes for the ‘major’ bonus babies, and one should still expect some lying about age among the unheralded.
Adoptive Parent of Francisco Peguero. He can throw, he can run, he can hit(fastballs), and he's Dominican. What else do you need to know?
by haverecords on Mar 12, 2009 1:08 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The dude the expos signed was a "major" bonus baby.
$1.4M
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by Bhaakon on Mar 12, 2009 1:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yes, but it does seem something else altogether is going on with Expos/Nationals signings….
Not that there isn’t skimming going on with other teams, but nothing that brazen. 1.4M was at least twice what he was worth, according to those in the know, and at the time.
Adoptive Parent of Francisco Peguero. He can throw, he can run, he can hit(fastballs), and he's Dominican. What else do you need to know?
by haverecords on Mar 12, 2009 2:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that entire Nationals situation was all messed up
The team paid Jose Rijo, one of it’s employees for the use of his academy and he used the academy as way of getting close to the kids and their buscones so he could skim from the bonuses he advised Nationals to pay them
by FluLikeSymptoms on Mar 12, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow
I want to know what kind of moisturizer he uses!
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 12, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dodger tears
applied twice daily.
Adoptive father to the All-Father. Does that make me the All-Grandfather?
by EliminateMe on Mar 12, 2009 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mana from heaven.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 12, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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