Roger Clemens on the Hall of Fame
January 9, 2008 by Jodie Lynn Boduch
Filed under Baseball, Sports Rumors
The Rocket is mad, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
The Cy Young winner (and former AT&T commercial star) has a new mantra vis-a-vis steroid abuse allegations: Deny, deny, deny. In addition to his “nuh-uh” video and 60 Minutes sit-down, Clemens maintained his innocence again at a post-Mike Wallace press conference.
The best feisty Roger quote from it (via the Boston Globe) is this, with a couple of bloggerette annotations:
I got another [swear word we won't include because this is a PG-13 blog] question the other day about the Hall of Fame. You think I played my career because I’m worried about the damn Hall of Fame? [Um . . . yeah?] I could give a [rodent's posterior region] about that also. If you have a vote, you keep your vote. [You mean like the way Doug Mientkiewicz kept the World Series 2004 ball until the Red Sox got mad?] I don’t need the Hall of Fame to justify that I put my butt on the line and I worked my tail off.
Well, we say, if he’s guilty, then we hope he bears the consequences. If he’s innocent, then all of Medialand owes him a mulitude of “I’m sorry. Can we still be friends?”-hugs.
Either way, though, we want to issue a baseball-wide plea of our own: Don’t dis Cooperstown. That’s like saying, “What do we need all those pyramids in Egypt for? Someone should level them and put a mini-mall there.”
It’s the same but different, right?
