As I was driving into Nashville yesterday before I imbibed in an evening of good-natured debauchery with some truly fabulous people (IVY, I love my zombie Elvis more than I love cheese and I’m pretty damned fond of cheese. Mark, my hat is groovy and I’m wearing it right now in my pajamas), I turned the radio on and found several sports programs talking pretty much about one thing.
Rha-ger.
I called sports diva Squirrelly and gave her some of the highlights from some of the live updates that Colin Cowherd, Jim Rome and Mike Turrico were giving and it occurred to me that the Rocket, who was never one of my favorite pitchers by any stretch of the imagination, thinks this nation is rather stupid. Or at least that’s what I got out of it. I didn’t know we owed Roger anything but apparently we do. I’ll be sure to set up that shrine I’m apparently supposed to have when I get home.
Listen, he says he didn’t take steroids and that it was his wife who took HGH, yada, yada, yada … but Brian McNamee said he did. I’m thinking Rha-ger did something but who knows.
What grossed me out though is that Roger Clemens blamed everyone in the world for his troubles and owned nothing. To hear Clemens tell it, he is the most victimized man in America. I’ll give him an B+ for being defiant, but the self-righteous stuff was …
Wait, have I ever told you that self-righteous folks make my skin crawl? I didn’t. Okay, Self-righteous people make my skin crawl. There you go.
I don’t blame him for defending himself. But the whole “the president found me in a duck blind” and “I wore USA across my chest” statements then basically saying “How dare you? I’m Roger Clemens, Lord of Baseball and I’m also kind to kittens” just made me sort of go “Blech.”
Clemens basically had his day in the sun under oath and he flailed around like a dying trout. McNamee isn’t a saint either. But why is it everyone else’s fault in Roger’s world. Petitte “misremembered?” Knoblach?
Bueller?
Baseball has taken worse hits. But no one won yesterday, quite frankly. Not Roger, Not McNamee and definitely not baseball where we as fans forgive stupid crap but we don’t forget. And Roger, you looked like a tittybaby. Man up, dude. You don’t have to be so defensive and snarly if you didn’t do it.
But, I’m thinking you did something or you wouldn’t have reacted the way you did.
Wanker.
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on Feb 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Personally, I don’t care if any of those idiots use ‘roids.
Why shouldn’t they? Steroids don’t “enhance” as much as most people think they do. I lift weights regularly. I can bench press right along with the guys that do load up. They can go a few mins longer at it, but they’re no stronger.
Steroids repair tissue. They fix a variety of pathological ails from Poison Ivy to helping broken bones heal faster. Doctors prescribe certain amounts of steroids to many athletes that require them, this is just about the ones that take non-prescribed ‘roids to try to get some advantage over the next player.
Believe me, you can eat horse steroids like candy and get your bench up to 400 pounds, but you can’t hit a home run unless you have technique. Doesn’t matter how strong you are, “strong” doesn’t hit homers.
Keep in mind that Republicans started this Steroid Fiasco at a time when Waxman’s committee should be holding other Repigs accountable for their crimes.
Compared to the illegal, subversive, treasonous actions of the Republican party and especially the Bush Regime over the last seven years, nothing these baseball guys have done warrants this much attention.
It is one effective shiny object though.
on Feb 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Great post. I agree with every word.