Roger Clemens is killing my childhood
May 3, 2008 by Jim Walker
Filed under Baseball
Roger, Roger, Roger… what happened, man? You spent 20 years in the big leagues and cemented your legacy as, arguably, the best pitcher of all time. Now, you’ve been reduced to… to what? Your whole defense was that you were an honorable family man — and in the past week you’ve been linked to three women, including the ex-wife of John Daly and a fifteen year-old girl.
Now you’re lawyer is suggesting you drop your defamation lawsuit for no other reason than so that you can save what little bit of face you have left. Yes, Brian McNamee is scum. He’s the lowest form of life on the planet Earth, but maybe you should just let this go and run while you still can. For your own sake, just let this drop and go silently into the night.
When I was younger and playing ball in pee-wee leagues, I idolized Roger Clemens. As a ballplayer, Clemens was everything I wanted to be. Now, though, he’s become a laughing stock. A farce. A self-parody in the most tragic of ways, and that is just depressing.
I learned growing up and over the years that it is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Roger, not only have you removed all doubt, look at what this has done to your family. In life there are times it is better to walk away and let things run their course and I certainly think it would have been to your advantage to do so. Whether you used steroids or any other illegal substance I don’t know but I do know this that the doubt was there before the Mitchell report and the doubt will always be there and all you have done now is open a can of worms that should never have been opened. Your extra marital affairs or alleged affairs are, in my opinion, between you and your wife but your actions brought all this negative publicity about and thus there are and will be consequences as a result thereof.