Comments on: Identity fraud in Latin America continues to evolve

By: Reflex

Reflex — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:35:06 +0000

Libel is fine as well.

Just hate seeing actual lies being thrown at people with zero evidence. All I can ever think is “And how would you like it if someone went and spread lies online about how you lied about your credentials to get your job?”

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:46:38 +0000

Proofread is the more generally accepted spelling of the word, maybe you should proofread your own work next time?

Hey, I can be nitpicky too! This is fun.

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:14:00 +0000

It’s a blog man, calm down.

By: phillyphan83

phillyphan83 — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:01:13 +0000

Craig Calcaterra, another NBC blogger who can’t proof-read a sub-200 word story. This place is loaded with amateur writers. I think it’s time I apply for a job. It’s not that hard to re-read what you write before posting it, ESPECIALLY when it takes 60 seconds to read the whole thing! I can’t believe you amateurs get paid for this crap.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:32:46 +0000

I can take it, stlouis.

I should correct myself–I meant identity fraud. The article being referred to even states that this is happening in other countries: “not just in the Dominican Republic but throughout Latin America.”

By: Mr. Wright 212

Mr. Wright 212 — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:25:58 +0000

Pujols has to be about 38.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:21:58 +0000

Inda: Don’t go there. He will go all crazy town on you.
Craig…I am sure Indaburg didn’t mean anything by it.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:20:31 +0000

He has a hard on for all things Cardinals related. La Russa, Pujols, McGwire, Molina, etc..
You come to expect it.
DISCLAIMER: Craig…when I use the words “come to expect it” I am NOT referring to you this time.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:15:17 +0000

As an American of Dominican descent, I have to ask: why did you put a picture of a Dominican flag for this story, Craig? Identiity theft (for different reasons than MLB) runs rampant in many countries, including ours.

By: Pierre Cruzatte

Pierre Cruzatte — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:04:34 +0000

I am not responsible for that thumbs down, but I REALLY hope it’s because you confused slander with libel.

By: Reflex

Reflex — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:51:54 +0000

Is slander something your parents taught you was ok to do?

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:50:52 +0000

The DR is a super poor country so as long as the only people these guys commiting identity changes, its not theft since all seem to be willing participants, it really doesn’t bother me. If MLB wants to stop it from happening they need to ban the next guy caught for life. The current punishments, which are basically zero, are not much of a deterent to any of these guys.

By: mississippimusicman

mississippimusicman — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:24:55 +0000

One way MLB could put a stop to all of this is to institute a lifetime ban for players who use false identities or enter the country illegally.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:51:33 +0000

In related news, Juan Carlos Oviedo, formerly dba Leo Nunez, will serve an eight week suspension after his arrival in the U.S.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/01/2776325/juan-carlos-oviedos-mlb-ban-will.html

By: brokea$$lovesmesomeme

brokea$$lovesmesomeme — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:35:40 +0000

I find it hard to believe that someone would lie to conceal there age given that the rewards are untold millions(Albert Pujols)

By: angrycorgi

angrycorgi — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:20:02 +0000

Badler also had an article on Jairo Beras too, where an “unnamed international scouting director” yankees cited that Texas ought to be punished for finding out through DNA testing that Beras was old enough to sign before the new international rules fell into place. Of course, since then, Texas has shown evidence that Yankee scouts already knew the same thing, and one of them had published an article discussing it some time before the signing. I’m sure the “unnamed director” would be less inclined to make stupid comments, had his organization already been outted as well.

By: bjavie

bjavie — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:42:52 +0000

I am not trying to offer any sort of solution, just raise the proposition.

I am not sure this is fair to any team given the complexities of the deception, but is there a way to hold the MLB team accountable, anyone think? I don’t konw, force teams to complete their due diligence, or something, given these payers are not drafted, but rather bought.

As far as I know, teams are not held accountable if a player test positive for PED’s, and if not, then why would they be held accountable for someone falsifying who they are.

Again, not trying to say that is what should be done, but clearly this is pretty common practice and something should be done to try and help curb the practice. Then again, maybe it’s not a big deal in the end and only hurts the team which should have done their due diligence in the first place. I don’t konw.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:39:37 +0000

This is pretty common in a lot of other places too. A friend of mine is having a really hard time getting her husband a green card (he’s Yemeni) because there’s such rampant identity fraud issues in Yemen that the US embassy there now requires DNA testing. But of course the US embassy has been shut down for quite some time (may be reopen now) because of the instability there.
The “I’m gonna fake a whole family” thing is an interesting twist though.