I wrote an entire post about the Theo/Tito love fest on ESPN Sunday night and forgot to publish it yesterday because life got in the way. It now already seems old thanks to the Roger Clemens verdict, which I will now rant about. Actually, I won’t rant about the verdict. I’ll just say that watching Clemens tearfully thank his supporters I realized that this verdict gives him the extra juice he needs (no pun intended) to pretend to himself and the world that he isn’t a liar. You are, Roger. In my opinion, the only reason you got the ‘not guilty’ verdicts is because Andy Pettitte told the truth and then went on the stand and said he wasn’t sure he told the truth and it gave the jurors the out they needed. What I’m here to rant about is Ken Rosenthal. Ken gets my ire today because his was the first piece I read today about the question we’ll be hammered with for the next five years or so “Will Clemens get into the Hall of Fame”? Rosenthal has this asinine plan he sticks to for ANY player how had the misfortune to play in the ‘steroid era’: “…as I’ve [...]

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