Two Good Clemens Reads

Boston Globe:
Former New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens (center) gestures as his attorney's [sic] Rusty Hardin (left) and Lanny Breuer (right, standing) try to address members questions during testimony on Capitol Hill.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Joe Posnanski: My Eight Favorite People in Congress

Hang in there and read the whole thing. His bloghead says "Curiously Long Posts", and he means it.

Gerry Callahan, Boston Herald: Congress sends in clowns
Republicans look like bozos

The Verdict is In

Roger Clemens is a liar.

No, you didn't mishear or misremember that. Liar.

MSNBC: Hall of Fame for Clemens? Try Hall of Shame
The longer he talked, the more he looked like a guilty man and a liar

Boston Herald: Roger the Dodger strikes out on stand

Boston Herald: Rocket misfires again
Wiser man would’ve cut losses long ago

Seattle Times: Clemens should try to misremember this day
LATimes: Clemens doesn't come off as a winner

Boston Globe: A strike on Clemens's character

Dallas Morning News: Clemens' credibility takes a crippling hit from shaky testimony

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Clemens the biggest loser of Steroidgate

Lawrence Eagle-Tribune: Who's telling the truth? No question it's McNamee

Steroid Hearings

Droning on in the background of my house.

My take: Roger Clemens is not the smartest person in the room.

Imagine if Congress spent as much time on Bush & the telecoms eviscerating the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution?

Nah.

'Roger the Red-Nosed 'Roider'

A new holiday video for the steroid era:



hat tip to Over the Monster (actually, to the Mom of blogger Roger Booth who forwarded it to him.)

Reactions To Roger's a 'Roider "News"

Clemens throws bat at Mike Piazza, Game 2 of 2000 World Series. 'Roid rage?
USAToady


The most prominent name in George Mitchell's report on steroids in baseball is 7 time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens. I've suspected the Rocket for a long time because he got too big and stayed too good long into his 40s. I couldn't even play once a week competitive (and that's stretching it) softball after the age of 40 because my body was so beat up. He's been striking out 22-year-olds well into his middle 40s. That's just not normal.

Here's a roundup of media reaction:

Tom Boswell, WaPo: The Rocket's Descent (The Australian paper that picked up this article gave it a much better title: Twin peaks just freaks in steroid circus)

Harvey Araton, New York Times: All-Juice Team Has Finally Found Its Ace: Clemens

Dan Shaughnessey, Boston Globe: Tainted Gloves

Peter Gelzinis, Boston Herald: Did Rocket tell son about moon shots?

Bill Madden, NYDailyNews: Roger Clemens' bid for Cooperstown likely will end with strikeout

Jose De Jesus Ortiz, Houston Chronicle: Scandal to cost Clemens support for Hall
Baseball writers have mixed views on whether pitcher will get their vote

Wallace Matthews, Newsday: Clemens must be judged same way as Bonds

Told Ya

NYTimes: As Baseball Braces for Report, Pettitte and Clemens Cited

As I suspected:

MainstUSA, 10/1/06: Clemens a 'Roider?

Schadenfreude

New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens looks at the ball after giving up the eighth run against the Chicago White Sox in the second inning as catcher Jorge Posada (L) walks to the mound during their MLB American League baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, August 2, 2007. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES)

Boston Globe: Clemens booed off mound after giving up eight runs
Yankees rally for eight runs in second after Clemens gets rocked

2057* Came Early This Century

New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens adjusts his hat during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles Wednesday, June 27, 2007 in Baltimore. Clemens allowed four runs in the inning. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
NYTimes: Orioles 4, Yankees 0
A New Low for Clemens and the Yankees

Or, as the New York Daily News put it: Money for Nothing: $28M Rocket fizzles as Yanks' skid hits four

*2057: watch the film

Schadenfreude, baby.

Clemens in 2057

Today Boston Dirt Dogs has a hilarious film about Roger Clemens, and George Steinbrenner, and the New York Yankees in 2057.

Talk about the twilight of a career. Don't be eating or drinking while you watch this film. Funny stuff.

Clemens a 'Roider?

Roger was already in the twilight of his career when he left the Red Sox (yes, that's a Dan Duquette joke), but I always did think Clemens was suspicious because he got really big after he left the Red Sox. (Now many Red Sox fans will say he got real big during his last year with the Sox, but those were 'get out of Boston' fat pounds, not muscle.) And after he met Andy Pettite, remember all the stories about how Clemens introduced Pettite to his 'workout' routine, how Pettite all of the sudden put on 20 pounds and bulked up? And then Pettite was basically on the DL for the next two years. So I'm not surprised that their names have surfaced in a steroids probe.

LATimes: Clemens Is Named in Drug Affidavit
The star pitcher and five other players used performance-enhancers, according to a former teammate who took steroids, prosecutors say.


Roger Clemens, 1986

Roger Clemens, 2006

Why Not Us?

Still exulting over the Red Sox win over the MFY this morning. Yee-hah!

I especially enjoyed those obnoxious commercials with George Steinbrenner's arm in a cast because he has to write all those checks. I was screaming at the TV, "You're gonna be writing a lot of checks in this off-season, a**hole!!!" Gee, I guess the Yankees could have used Clemens, Pettite, or even David Wells. Kevin Brown lasted, what, two innings? hahahaha

The New York Times agrees with me.

More Changes Certain After Yankees' Defeat

The Yankees almost certainly will spend wildly to win; Steinbrenner has shown no tendency to do otherwise. The obvious target is the Houston free agent Carlos Beltran, whose agent, Scott Boras, is widely expected to ask for more than $100 million. Such a demand would lead Beltran straight to Yankee Stadium, where another Boras client, Bernie Williams, would have to cede center field.

happy, happy, happy

hahahaha

Sox win! Sox win! Sox win!

Time to sleep the sleep of the just.