According to this report on ESPN.com, retired pitcher Roger Clemens allegedly used steriods.

Well guess what? I am not surprised in the least bit.

You can look at his stats all you want, but the truth of the matter is, you really don’t have to have the stats in front of you in order to think the man has used the juice.

For one thing, how else can you describe a 45-year-old man that is in better shape and is considerably larger than most 25-year-olds in the prime of their careers.

Yeah, I know you get bigger when you get older, but based on personal experience you don’t exactly get bigger with muscle mass, you get bigger with beer mass.

For another reason, how else can you explain the fact that Clemens became a better pitcher the older he got.

I know experience is one reason for that, but come on, the man was the best pitcher in baseball for five out of the last six years (2007 he was a total bust, in fact he probably just came back to give Andy Pettitte some more roids and figured, “Hey, why not make $20 million while I’m here.”

(For those of you that don’t know, they just linked Andy Pettitte to Roger Clemens in a report on ESPN. As far as Pettitte is concerned, my mother always told me that “you are who you associate with,” so there you have that. Pettitte being named actually hurts as a Yankee fan because he was one of the originals. One of the Yankees in 1996 that gave all of us Yankee fans, who had never seen the team win a World Series and who had waited 14 years to see another one, hope. Hope that lead to four world titles in five years, including three-in-a-row from 98-2000. Pettitte was on those teams, but unfortunately, so was Clemens.)

That’s why I’m really not all that surprised at Clemens, and really I’m not “all that surprised” by Pettitte being involved. But I like(d) Pettitte and I hold a grudge against Clemens since he “retired” in 2003. And now my grudge has grown.

In 2003, against the Marlins in the World Series , watching Clemens strike out the “final batter” he faced and walk off the field for the “final time” gave me the chills. The standing ovation by the surprisingly full stadium, the standing ovation given by the Marlins as a team, the tip of the hat and the acknowledgment he displayed for the moment, really was something to watch. And for what?

To watch him comeback the next year and play for the Astros and lead them to the playoffs…more than likely while sipping on some juice.

Then a few years later he decided to comeback to the Yankees (for reasons mentioned above) and take their money and not do a thing about it. Thanks buddy.

Sure he rejuvenated the Yankees and helped in the clubhouse, but he was dogshit on the mound. $28 mil for 6 wins and a postseason you couldn’t pitch in? Thanks a lot buddy.

Now, we find out he took steroids. Just the icing on the cake for my already large slice of disgrace I have for  Roger Clemens.

And as for the final proof Clemens was on roids? Take a look at his wife. Explain that one.

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