The Mitchell Report
As implicated in a previous post, I’m not a fan of Roger Clemens. I may think Roger Clemens is a fat mercenary, but I’m saddened that he was named in the Mitchell Report. As I gleaned the 400+ page report, I thought of the paragraph from Seth Stevenson’s essay where he says:
It started, Mr. Clemens, when you left the Sox in 1996. You were in a steady decline, and seemed on the cusp of retirement. Then you signed with the Blue Jays and put up two Cy Young campaigns in a row, completely owning the league. Putz.
Stevenson attributed it to Clemens only trying hard when he feels like it. But, now, allegedly (and I say that like Kathy Griffin would), it was because he took steroids.
I feel sad about a player that I don’t even like, mostly because he’s supposedly the “greatest pitcher of all time” and baseball achievement means something to me. I don’t think I can look at baseball the same way anymore.
14 December 2007 – 10:00 PM