Vindication

I have been saying for a number of years that Roger Clemens was doing steroids. In fact, my friend Butter called me to congratulate me on being right. Actually, I took the idea from dtro sr. and kinda ran with it. Anyway, the Mitchell Report has been released in all its 400 pages of glory and it turns out that Clemens did indeed do steroids and HGH (and his little Christian butt buddy Andy Pettitte used HGH at the least).



According to his trainer, Brian McNamee, Clemens first used steroids in 1998 with the Blue Jays and probably obtained them from teammates Jose Canseco (that guy really got around). After he was traded to the Yankees in 1999, Clemens convinced the Yank$ to hire McNamee as an assistant strength coach beginning in 2000. Clemens then used various anabolic steroids and HGH during the latter parts of the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Pettitte was given HGH injections while rehabbing from injury during the 2002 season. Little Chucky Knoblauch (perhaps the 2nd most detestable human on those Yanks teams, besides Clemens) also was getting in on the HGH game. David Justice was also on board with this shit, along with some other former Yankees.

All of this means that the Yankees fucking CHEATED and the New York Mets should be crowned as the true 2000 WORLD CHAMPIONS!


However, the Mets are not free from guilt. For one thing, the primary source of information for the Mitchell investigation was Kirk Radomski, a Mets clubhouse employee during the mid 90s, who apparently supplied steroids to half the known universe during the late 90s and early 00s. Also, it turns out (not to anyone's great surprise) the Mets all-time single season HR record is tainted:

Radomski has known Hundley since 1988, when Radomski worked for the Mets
and Hundley played in the Mets’ minor league system.380 Radomski stated that, beginning in
1996, he sold Deca-Durabolin and testosterone to Hundley on three or four occasions. At the
beginning of that year, Radomski told Hundley that if he used steroids, he would hit 40 home
runs. Hundley hit 41 home runs in 1996, having never hit more than 16 in any prior year. After
the season, Radomski said, Hundley took him out to dinner.

Thank God Beltran at least tied that record in 06. Please break it next year, Carlos.


ROID RAGE! Yea, our old pal Paulie Dukes was on the juice during his time with the Dodgers. If only Omar had known, Paulie. You could've had a 2-year contract.


ROID RAGE!!! Woo!! Back to my original point that Clemens is a cheating, psycopathic scumbag. It appears that Clemens was using steroids in the latter half of seasons in order to avoid wearing down, because, you know, he is way too old to be pitching as well as he had been through 2006. Isn't it interesting that he decided to take a couple of months to "decide" about whether to keep pitching the last couple years after MLB has finally instituted comprehensive drug testing for anabolic steroids?

Alright, here's my question. Is the BBWAA going to keep Clemens out of the Hall? Or at least not put him in on the first ballot? McGwire's not getting in. Bonds probably ain't going in first ballot, even if he might make it eventually. Palmeiro's not going in. Clemens has to be punished too, right?

How great is baseball? The most dominant hitter and pitcher of my lifetime both are fucking cheaters.