Roger Clemens

After watching the 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace - there is no doubt in my mind that Roger Clemens took steroids. He ate Vioxx like Skittles and had no compunction against taking pain-killer shots or vitamin shots. Better living through chemistry seems to be part of Clemens preparation for playing. With that mindset - it's not too far a leap to believe he was a steroids-shooting cheat.

One of the side benefits of Roger Clemens being implicated for steroids use is that nobody will be clamoring to have his number retired by the Red Sox. Supposedly you have to meet three criteria to have your number retired by the Red Sox; you have to play at least 10 years in Boston, you have to be elected to the Hall of Fame and you have to have retired as a member of the Red Sox. That last requirement was bent in order to retire Carlton Fisk's number 27. Since Clemens is tied for all-time wins by a Red Sox pitcher with 192 (tied with Cy Young) - I bet Clemens would have had his supporters petitioning the Sox to retire his number. With these negative steroids stories - Clemens will be lucky to make the Hall of Fame now never mind having his number retired by the Red Sox.

Have you seen those Jason Taylor ASPCA commercials? I'm guessing those commercials are a not so subtle way for the NFL to counter the negative press generated by Michael Vick's dog killing ways. I have to wonder if baseball will come out with a similar commercial to counter Clemens ass-injecting ways? Greg Maddux would be the natural (pun intended) candidate to counter the negative press created by the Clemens revelations but the last time baseball had a commercial with Maddux it was the "chicks dig the long ball" spot he did with Tom Glavine. In retrospect - that commercial seems almost insulting given the steroids issues which have been exposed.