Miguel Tejada admits to being 47 years old

In all seriousness, Miguel Tejada is now admitting to be 33 after spending his entire Major League career lying about his age. Tejada, who was traded to the Astros before the season, is now two years closer to a productivity decline.

At one point in the story originally reported by The Houston Chronicle, Tejada said, "I'm feeling free now. It's something that I had in my mind."

Is there anyone who is buying this? Tejada is pretending like he's a victim in this instance that he can now live freely now that people know the truth about his age. That's about as convincing as when Tejada said he didn't take steroids.

I'm a little surprised it took so long for Tejada's real age to be released, considering ESPN.com stated that his driver's license, green card, and other official documents list May 25, 1974 as his date of birth. That also means Tejada is only six weeks away from turning 34. Aside from Barry Bonds, players generally don't have career years after hitting their mid thirties. Then again, Bonds also had unusual growth in head and foot size...but that is all natural afterall.

I think my favorite part of the story posted on ESPN is the line "Earlier in the interview, before being presented with the birth certificate, Tejada was asked how old he was. His answer was '32' -- which is neither his real age nor his listed age." I don't know who Miggy thought he was fooling there, because only he is fooled by the tricky conversion of figuring his age. Considering every child can factor in the "half" year old, I'm left to assume Tejada was simply rounding up with what he reported to be his (alleged) 32nd birthday upcoming. Tejada probably won't realize the full effect of his newly revealed age when he hits the free agent market at 35 instead of 33.

Anyone want to take bets on if Julio Franco is in his sixties? The over-under is set at 57.