THSBCA to Clemens: take your speech elsewhere
According to the Houston Chronicle and ESPN.com, in the wake of MLB releasing its “Mitchell Report”, the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association is deciding whether or not to allow former Yankees’ pitcher Roger Clemens to be its keynote speaker at its state convention next month.
The association’s officers spent the weekend reviewing the matter before concluding that Clemens, a 354-game winner over a major league career that began in 1984, “was an inappropriate influencer to baseball coaches and students alike.”
Clemens, who pitched for the University of Texas and came out of retirement after the 2003 season to pitch the next three seasons for the Houston Astros, was slated to be the convention’s keynote speaker on Jan. 12, with the topic being “my vigorous workout, how I played so long [in professional baseball],” according to the Chronicle.
I don’t think they need to remove Clemens as their keynote speaker. Instead, just change his topic from “my vigorous workout, how I played so long in professional baseball” to “my vigorous workout and butt loads of HGH, how I played so long in professional baseball.”
His speech topic was to be ” How I lasted so long in baseball ” ? WOW – how fitting that would have been. Geez, are you coming back again this year Rocket-head ? I hope not.
This is the united states, right? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? We shouldn’t be so ready to convict because a trainer who is looking at 25 years in prison gives up some names. Clemens has one of the best work ethics in all of sports and is a genetic freak. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins. There are a lot of angry sports writers and fans who wish they had 1/10th the ability of these ball players and love the rumors brought out by the Mitchel report. They should allow Clemens to speak and address this issue with our youth.
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins. There are a lot of angry sports writers and fans who wish they had 1/10th the ability of these ball players and love the rumors brought out by the Mitchel report.
I’m not one of them, Mike. Pettitte admited to using HGH and he trained with Clemens. People have the right to assume that he too was using performance-enhancers…just as he has the right to be innocent until proven guilty (I agree with you there).
I think more fans and writers are pissed off that the game is in shambles – not because Clemens might have taken HGH. We want the game back to what it used to be and it’s clearly a long ways away from that.