The water just keeps getting hotter for Roger Clemens. The pitching legend's troubles with steroid allegations keeps getting uglier.
I like Roger Clemens. I think he may be the best pitcher in the history of baseball. He works his ass off. He competes like a champion. He gives everything he's got every time he's on the mound. I've never seen what people disliked about that. But for some reason, they do. In fact, they dislike him so much, that baseball is more than happy to serve him up as a scapegoat for the whole steroid era. It pisses me off. Not just for Clemens, but for myself as a baseball fan.
Think about it: George Mitchell talked to two guys, and they gave him 80 names. Mitchell himself admits that his report is incomplete because he lacked the power to compel players to testify, and I think we all know that more than just Brian McNamee and Kirk Radomski were cashing in on baseball's love affair with the juice. Yet, Clemens is going to be the one that everybody remembers. He might lose his shot at the Hall of Fame, and it's obvious (to me at least) that he was set up for a perjury charge.
So he will pay, and he might pay heavily for the sins of hundreds of ballplayers and the willful blindness of the men in charge. And it makes me wanna puke.
