Clemens and Kids
Would you be OK with Roger Clemens talking to your kid about "working out'' to help his baseball performance? The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association is. The group is welcoming Clemens to speak on the topic at its annual gathering next week.
I don't want to sound self righteous here. But why would you bring in a guy fingered by his trainer as a steroid and HGH user, to talk to impressionable kids? Of course, Clemens has denied it. They all do. To now, they're all members of the Raffy Palmeiro/Marion Jones Club. "Swear?'' Mike Wallace asked The Rocket about his denial, in an interview to air on 60 Minutes Sunday. "Swear,'' Clemens said. Maybe he secretly had his fingers crossed.
He said his trainer injected him with flaxseed oil, er, Lidocaine and B-12. The former is a painkiller, the latter a vitamin usually given old people who are chronically tired. Make sense to you?
Point is, if you are an association charged with showing kids the right ways for doing things, why would you be OK with having Clemens talk to them?
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Post a Comment*The only reasoning I can figure would be the whole "Texan by the Grace of God" thing. Ironically he was born in Dayton.
I think he probably used steroids but am concerned with the idea of banning him because of an unproven accusation. The decision as to what to do is not clear cut at least to me.
We don't know how much money they're out to cancel with Clemmons, and we do know that something called the "High School Baseball Coaches Assoc." doesn't have a lot of cash.
Baseball isn't exactly a big money-maker in high school. I think the annual school play probably pulls down about the same amount. (Oh, no...not HMS Pinafore! Yep, sad to say, but those props and that acting....)
Anyway, it's not the end of the world if Clemmons shows up.
Think of it like this. Half the kids can't read. The other half won't read. So, barring his being introduced as WWE's "Steroid" Roger Clemmons, then those kids won't realize they're in the presence of an asterisk.
Well put Doc. Organizations at times have the habit of ignoring their morals when money or celebrity. ie: Boy Scouts of America local Dan Beard Council. The local council had no problem taking MArge Schotts money. The fact she was a well known drunk racist? Just a minor thing it had no problem overlooking.
The fact the organization teaches inclusion (unless you happen to be gay)and a clean mind and body, no problem if you have money to give.
And hey the Cincinnati Zoo is just as guilty.
Robert Young
Milford
Paul,
Up till now I thought of Clemens as a very good professional baseball player (but not nearly in the same category as Sandy Koufax, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson or Warren Spahn) His ego, potential $$ compensation and passion to win, caused him to make some bad decisions along the way, so it seems. This HS gig is another bad decision on his part because weather he did or didn't use, it only makes me more certain that he's lying. Bad timing on this one. Lou E.
Clemens has just entered the personal _ell that Barry Bonds lives in. "Although it's perfectly obvious I did, I didn't!"
Guess if you have that much money, being able to look at yourself in the mirror isn't that important?
Looking forward to Barry's picture in pinstripes - not sure I'll ever see Rajah in pinstripes - he hasn't, so far, lied to a grand jury, has he?
Just to clarify, only the coaches are going to be there, not the kids.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/01/02/2008-01-02_roger_clemens_should_bow_out_from_speech.html?print=1&page=all
David Sitton, a former Astros batting practice pitcher and president-elect of the THSBCA, has been in recent contact with Clemens. Sitton told Long that Clemens offered to step aside, but that he badly wishes to make the speech.
"He really wants to come," Long said yesterday. "And there are going to be just men at the convention. Grown men. If there were going to be kids, it'd be a whole different situation."
Anyone watch 60 Minutes interview tonight? When Mike Wallace asked if he'd swear he never did it, Clemens said "Swear". When Mike asked him if he'd take a lie-detector, he questioned whether that would exonerate him.
Didn't say, "Yes, I would". Hmmm.
Roid Roger couldn't hold Seaver's, Koufaxes, or Gibson's jockstrap.
What a piece of rat excrement !
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