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BPS Game Thread: It's Always Sunny In Citizens Bank Park
Published 4/17/2008 by Matt P at The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae
... Brett Myers looks to build on his last outing, facing Astros right-hander Brandon Backe. Backe is off to a good start at 1-1, with a 2.25 ERA and 12 Ks. A look at his 1.69 WHIP and 11 free passes shows that he's ripe for a beating though. Also, Miguel Tejada, the 'roider who Ed Wade traded for the day before the Mitchell Report was released, has aged 2 years in a single day. He'd been lying about his age since 1993, but oddly, all of his US documentation showed it correctly and no one ever discovered it. How's Ed feel about it? ...

Good To Know: Miguel Tejada Is Actually 34
Published 4/17/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at FanHouse
... Ah, Major League Baseball. If it isn't stimulants, it's steroids. If it isn't steroids, it's shady local taxpayer politics. And if it isn't any of the above, you can rest assured that you probably have at least one player on your team whose age is known only to him. Today's revelation? Miguel Tejada chopped two years off his age when he was 17. Er, 19: ...

Off-Field Fleece: Miguel Tejada Lied About His Age
Published 4/17/2008 by McFleece at MLB Fleece Factor
... Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada has admitted to Houston General Manager Ed Wade that he has been lying about his age for 15 years, as per the Houston Chronicle.  Tejada is currently 33-years-old instead of the 31 year-old age that he is listed as in the club’s media guide and other baseball records. ...

Miguel Tejada Is 64 Years Old
Published 4/17/2008 by Harvey Bars at Tirico Suave
... Miguel Tejada is old Miguel Tejada just experienced every 11 year old’s fantasy of being able to celebrate two birthdays in one year . Tags: ...

PM Roundup: Derrick Rose Fights Over a Girl, Loses
Published 4/17/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... who was hit in the head recently talks about the experience. (Irish Insights) Is anyone else’s lasting memory of Michael Westbrook the time he jacked Stephen Davis on the sideline? (ESPN) This man is a hero. And he’s funny, too. (Exploding Unicorn) Somehow, Whitlock found a way to work To Kill a Mockingbird, Obama and Herschel Walker into a column. (Fox Sports) If Miguel Tejada is 33, that makes El Duque … 49? (Houston Chronicle) Some great ones in the dirtiest name tournament: Pete LaCock and ...

The attendees of Miguel Tejada’s golden birthday party would like to have a word with him
Published 4/17/2008 by Michael Rand at Randball
... Miguel Tejada has any friends who are like the RandBall Better Half, there is a good chance he had a huge party on May 25, 2001, to celebrate his “Golden Birthday.” For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, that’s the b-day on which the age you are turning is the same as the date you were born on. May 25, 1976, allegedly being Tejada’s birthday, that would have been his golden day in 2001 when he turned 25. And it would have been a huge lie. Turns out Tejada is really 33 right now, not 31. That golden birthday party we speculated ...

Tejada Two Years Older Than Reported, Still Younger Than Pujols
Published 4/17/2008 by Rudy Gamble at Fantasy Baseball Blog at Razzball
The Houston Chronicle - aka Minute Maid Paper - has reported that Miguel Tejada lied about his age. Not very shocking I know. But here’s what the Houston Chronicle isn’t telling you. Miguel Tejada isn’t actually Latin. He’s a black guy from the Bay Area who grew up as Michael T. James. He went to the same high school as Jimmy Rollins, albeit a decade earlier. After high school, he played at a local community college for two years then made a slow 8 year progression through the Mexican League. HIs game finally ...

Around the Horn - 4/17
Published 4/18/2008 by Mantlemurcer at My Pinstripes
... Miguel Tejada may or may not have lied about P.E.D. use, but he did lie about his age. Tejada admitted yesterday that he's 33 not 31.

Hawiian Shirt Friday: 04/18/08
Published 4/18/2008 by TD at Rain Delay
... It seems that Houston Astros Short stop Miguel “Mr. Swings at Everything” Tejada has been lying about his age. And yet we still don’t know how old Orlando Hernandez is….. ...