Roger Clemens

rary hurlers like Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Clemens, Pedro Martinez, and Randy Johnson. 

9. Roger Clemens-RHP

It pains me to do this, because I hate Roger Clemens, but his numbers and the specifics of his success indicate that he's the best pitcher of all time.

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s and perspective eligibility of such noted sleazebags as ARoid, Manny, Barry and (God-help-us-all) Roger Clemens. He created his own convenient and self-righteous gauge, judging players on the extent and longevity of actualized or alleged sleaziness. Luckily, I wasn’t the only reader with a “what the deuce!?” reaction. As mole57 from New Jersey points out, it shouldn't matter when or for how long a player used steroids:

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 And yet, all of these guys have done what some astonishingly elite names such as Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling (who came within one strike of a perfect game with Varitek behind the plate in 2007), Pedro Martinez have never been able to do in some the most illustrious and impressive pitching careers that Major League baseball has ever seen.  With Varitek behind the plate and calling the game, good pitchers become great, and great pitchers can become legendary.  This is not to say that the Red Sox Captain deserves all the credit for his pitchers' success, but it is undeniable that he has a huge impact on the game and the way his pitchers perform.

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to Fenway), neither cheered nor booed for Johnny Damon, cheered Pedro Martinez and stood to applaud Roger Clemens as we walked off the mound for what we all assumed would be his last appearance at Fenway Park.  The closest I ever came to booing a player is every time Kevin Millar came to bat once he began to play for the Baltimore Orioles (For the record, I think I almost booed him when he played with the Sox!  I couldn't stand him when he was with the Red Sox, and still can't stand him now).  I will boo some players:  Barry Bonds got an earful from me (along with 37,000 other fans) each time he came to bat when the Giants came to Boston.  But I have never been one to complain when players choose to play somewhere else.  If someone offered me a 30% raise to do the same job I do now in another city, I would jump at the chance.

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As the hurricane of destruction that is Roger Clemens' personal and professional life gathers strength like a tropical storm reaching the balmy waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the storm has enveloped its latest victim: country star Mindy McCready. The Daily News reported last week that Clemens had carried on a decade-long affair with McCready, a family friend, ever since she was fifteen and he twenty-eight. (I should add that I'm following the media designation of McCready as a "star," even though I couldn't pick her out of a lineup of McSteamy, Matthew McConaghey, and the McDonald's McRib. Then again, I don't really follow country music--more to the point, I run far, far away from it at every opportunity).

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Making it to the "Big Show" (no, I'm not referring to Glen Ordway and the other not my WEEIdols) would be a dream come true for many aspiring Little Leaguers, including myself.  But like most of you, the readers, I'm just here.  I'll never strike out A-Rod and I'll never blast one of Rivera's 94mph cutters out of the park.   But that's okay, I've come to grips with the fact that making it to the big leagues (and Staying) is about as difficult as attending one of The Steve Miller Band's come back tour concerts.  It takes a lot of patience, can be very frustrating, and you know you can do a better job than them if you could just fight your way onto the stage.

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          It was as recent as 2004 where Roger Clemens was at top of his game.  It was his first year in the National League while playing for the Houston Astros.  He ended up going 18-4 and eventually went on to win the National League Cy Young Award.  How quickly can things can fall from grace.  In December 13, 2007, Clemens name was listed in the Mitchell Report, which alleged that he had used steroids and HGH during the 1998-2001 seasons.  Ever since those allegations, Clemens has been saying he was falsely accused with his lawyer Rusty Hardin backing him up.  Even under oath in front of federal investigators and the Supreme Court, he kept to his story that he never did take HGH or steroids.  What a horrible decision that would later be for him.

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       WHO WILL PLAY? 

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are two people that changed the sport of baseball forever.  One might look at this statement and say, “Of course they did.  Bonds took down the most prestigious records in baseball by hitting more dingers than good Old Hank.  He has given the sport more publicity and has made it more popular.  Clemens is a superhero for all of us.  A man whose career was falling apart, quickly changed turned it around and showed the 40’s were the new 20’s.  With all those Cy Young’s, he is one of the best pitchers in history.”  I would tell you, “Nope, that isn’t how they changed it.  That is how they ruined the sport.”  You would then look at me funny and walk away.  Go ahead, walk away from the truth.  The truth is these men have tainted this sport and have embarrassed the players in the generation before them.

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tes in having its players tested 12 times in a single season.  12 times.  Thats more than Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds have told the truth.

You need to do something Selig, or you

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far as Gertrude was concerned, she’d overplayed that hand.

The man (in this case, Roger Clemens) doth protest too much, methinks.

Roger is out there protesting way too loudly that Brian McNamee is the liar.

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, I’ve had it! When the news came out over the weekend that Brian McNamee allegedly injecting Roger Clemens’ wife with HGH, I officially reached my breaking point. Clemens could sprout a twelfth ear in the middle of his forehead in front of Congress tomorrow and I couldn’t care less. McNamee could say that he injected each of Clemens’ kids and the family dog and it would fall on deaf ears.

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