They didn't recognize you because of your beard. Keep telling yourself that.

2007 was a very long time ago:

"The Detroit Tigers have signed Joba Chamberlain to a one-year contract, bringing the free-agent reliever back after an up-and-down season as their setup man in 2014.

Chamberlain, who went 2-5 with a 3.57 ERA last year, returned to Detroit's spring training facility Tuesday, not completely clean shaven but without the scraggly, overgrown beard that made him so easily identifiable with the Tigers last season.

'We're definitely going to keep it a little bit restrained from what it was last year,' the 29-year-old reliever said. 'I walked by a couple people. They didn't recognize who I was.' "

Perhaps they didn't recognize you because your beard had become very long and unkempt.

Perhaps they didn't recognize you because, in general, people don't keep a mental list of washed-up bullpen pitchers. Just using Ockham's Razor here.