I regret to tell you that a great fraud has been perpetuated on the American people. As you may remember, Carlos Silva, Juan Castro, and Johan Santana presented the clubhouse with a recording of a hip hop composition called "Chacarron, Chacarron."

Through top secret operatives Batgirl was able to obtain a copy of the players' alleged recording which you may listen to here. That is supposed to be Carlos Silva doing the main vocals.

Scarlic, of the excellent Twins message board the Dickie Thon Fan Forum--who will forever go down in history as the Woodward and Bernstein of ChacarronGate--has discovered a little song called "Chacaron (Shark Around)" by an Italian group called the Soca Gang.

You can listen to the song here. (Scroll down and click on the picture to listen). Here's the record company's site for the album.

Sound...similar?

Shenanigans, I say! It's a sad day in Twins Territory when you can't trust three prankster players who said they recorded a song during a busy five game series in Detroit.