I have officially lost all respect for Clemens. So what if he's one of the best pitchers ever - he sold out. If you say that you are retiring to be with your family, then dammit, stay home with your family and be a man of your word. So much for wanting to play for his hometown team so he can be a family man. I can't stand athletes that can't find a way to stay retired.

OK, I feel better now... and as much as it ticks me off, it's hard to fault a guy that got offered $4+ million a month.

"I'M NOT DEAD YET! I FEEL HAPPY! I THINK I'LL GO FOR A WALK!"

You're not fooling anyone you know

I'm getting better!

Thank you, this story made my year! Clemens is a BUM!!! How can you respect yourself and call yourself an athlete when you sit out the first part of the season. To top it off he will be with the team when he feels like it. I've never come anywhere close to disliking an athlete as much as I dislike Clemens. Makes it so much easier to hate the Yankess now too!!!

ok, the only thing that could have made that funnier to me was a Monty Python reference. Wait, I got that too!!!

*still laughing*

*rolls eyes* Roger Clemens is something that rhymes with jackass.

There are always one or two veterens around the league who manage to acquire the air that they can keep going forever (Harold Baines, Edgar Martinez are two who spring to mind in recent years - Jaime Moyer is one who has it now). But every player, no matter how great, no matter how tough their workout regime, reaches the end.
One of these days Clemens is going to ride into town in mid June to save the day and suddenly won't be able to get anyone out any more.
If that day happens to be this year all the better.

I believe that Clemens has been averaging six innings per start in Houston. After adjusting for the Americal League factor that should translate into five innings per start. At a pro-rated $28m in salary that is some fuzzy math.

The only person I hate more than Roger Clemens is Joe Buck. Grrrr...

So who died first, Clemens or Steinbrenner? And which one bit the other, turning him into a shambling, reanimated corpse?

As the Sports Guy said in his article yesterday, Clemens' hat on his Hall of Fame plaque should just have a dollar sign instead of a team's logo--it's the only thing he's ever been loyal to. Give me 25 piranhas over 1 Clemens any day (since they probably cost the same).

I'm just smiling now because I'm remembering Clemens' return last year with the Astros: every camera in baseball trained on his rocket arm, and he was taken to school by a young phenom from the Twins named Francisco Liriano...

I can't say anything that hasn't already been said. We can only hope that Mariano Rivera's descent into the abyss will only be the opening act to Roger Clemens' eventual implosion. Then we can stop hearing about him.

I swear this guy's been on as many "Farewell Tours" as Cher or Barbara Striesand.

Dearest Torhu -
Now that's funny!

Much Love
Wonder Woman

etschida-
That game was great. I remember telling at least a couple people before that game that Liriano would be the pitcher to watch in that game. Some people were listening to the 'deranged Twins fan in New England' and most people rolled their eyes and started talking about Clemens and how good he is. It sure was fun the next day with all the I told you's.

Clemens will go down a few weeks into his season with a Hamstring injury. Its taken out enough other Spankee pitchers so why not him.

Dear etschida

What ever happened to the young Liriano ? Will he pitch this season ? He had an awesome start to his career. What happened ?

p.e.m.

I think we should rush Liriano back from his rehab, fake-trade him to whatever team Clemens pitches against in each of his starts this season, automatically reaquiring him after each start. It would be so much fun to watch Clemens lose 15 games that it would almost be worth a Liriano-less 2008. Especially exciting would be interleague games, in which Liriano would make a fun game out of trying to throw a slider into Roger's athletic cup.

Yes! Brilliant, Batgirl. Truly.

Last night on ESPN they put together an entire lineup (with Joe Mauer behind the plate, incidentally--so a DECENT lineup, to say the least) that would cost less than what Roger Clemens is going to make this season all on his lonesome.

Horrifying.

There is a fun article on SI.Com about the 50 Most Valuable Players - click my name - I hope the link works

I was pleasantly surprised =)

Enjoy -

PEM - The Kid is in town rehabing - on a bad day he could best Roger -this retiring and unretiring bs is reason 999 why I've never liked Roger.

WW

Wonder Woman, I just read that and popped over here to see if anyone had already posted that article.

Pleasant indeed.

Yep. Twins have 2 of the top 10. And to add to the Clemens' theme. They both makeless then Clemens will be making this year.

reanimated corpses walking around in New York? Will Boston sign Bruce Campbell??

BrianS, the Twins need Bruce Campbell and his BOOMSTICK right now.

That reference made my day, by the way. Thank you.

BG:

Love. You.

"Bring out your dead!"
Nice post BG.
This Clemens thing is really getting old.
Will he help the Yankees? Probably not.
Will he sell them more tickets? probably not.
So why did the pick him up? Probably to make there fans feel better. After all the Yankees are 15 and 16. And they have a belief that they can always buy a fix to their problems. I hate that.

Joel, nice Monty Python reference.

I guess I don't get all the Roger animosity. He basically said all along he was going to wait until the middle of the year to decide who to pitch for. Yeah, it sucks that he gets paid a million dollars a start and I make 30,000 a year, but that's not his fault. Trust me, I would take it if someone offered it to me. Where he is rippable to me is the whole, "time with my family" bit he pulls. His family is really important to him - until he's offered 28 mil.

LTLC

Will you get off your broom, for one second!?