By now, you've almost certainly seen the clip I've embedded above of Miguel Tejada being presented with his birth certificate by Tom Farley for ESPN's news magazine E:60. Tejada is clearly flustered in the clip and today he says that he's not at all happy with the way ESPN ambushed him and presented the clip:
Tejada said he believes his family was misled by ESPN, suggesting the network had indicated a camera crew that went to the Dominican Republic was affiliated with the Houston Astros. He also expressed displeasure with the way a recent interview was presented and the way it was conducted recently in Philadelphia.
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"They called me about two days before the interview and told me it was going to be more about baseball," Tejada said. "When I got there, I thought it was about baseball and they throw me a 98 mph fastball inside."
Seeing as both the team and Tejada are shuffling this off as a non-story (I'm not so sure it is, but if the Astros don't care then there's no where else to go with it), I tend to believe Tejada here. That hasn't stopped ESPN from presenting the story as a "shocking revelation about Tejada's past." A Latin American player is slightly older than we thought he was! Wow! That is truly surprising and definitely doesn't happen all the time!
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4-24-2008 @ 12:13AM
George B Vieto said...
I don't blame Miguel Tejada leaving the interview set after being asked about his real age instead of baseball questions by this O'Relly Factor reject.
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