Weird from Baseball

Fausto Carmona has pitched in Major League Baseball since 2006. In 2012 comes the stupefying news that:

… Carmona made a tearful apology Friday as he was released following his arrest for allegedly using a false identity to play baseball in the U.S. … the athlete's real name is Roberto Hernandez Heredia and … he is 31, three years older than he had claimed. …

What in the world? Imagine the story leading to this. Imagine all of the questions that will be left on the table following that story. That any person could live for an extended length of time under an assumed identity is difficult to comprehend. That a once Cy Young award candidate playing for the Cleveland Indians could live under an assumed identity for nearly half a decade, the second half of the first decade of the 21^st century, is absolutely astonishing. There have been more than a few instances of players in several major United States sports leagues found to have falsified their age, which I don’t even consider to be much to do as MLB isn’t little league and if with age comes decreased capabilities it’ll show and that point comes at different times for everybody. I have never ever heard of an athlete in a major sport who falsified their identity, and yet ‘Carmona’ is:

… the second Dominican player arrested in recent months for using a false identity. …

Very strange. Hopefully these gentleman have non-immoral reasons for their shenanigans, I bet that whatever the story turns out to be, it would make a great movie.