Ed Wade to Roger Clemens: You're Tainted Goods...Too Tainted.
While perusing MLB Trade Rumors, I came across another one of those non-retirement-retirement statements from Roger Clemens as possible Hot Stove fodder. Curious about the article and really wanting to put myself in a bind with completing a Money and Banking assignment that's due in 39 minutes at the time of this typing, I read through the article. I'll include the quote about Roger's not really retiring, but retiring, though I'm leading with Ed Wade distancing himself from the fallen star:
Astros General Manager Ed Wade said utilizing Clemens right now as part of their training process is not on his radar.
"He has a huge amount of knowledge of the game, and at some point in time he will be able to lend that expertise," Wade said.
"We have a full-time staff that works with our players and if you have confidence in your staff then you oughta let them do the job and not fragment the situation."
Reading that just made me laugh. It's about the nicest way you can say to someone, "Listen, you're a great athlete who could be of extraordinary benefit to our young pitchers -- something we could desperately use right now -- but the fact that you paraded your lying, cheating, statutory-raping circus all over the nation's TV screens last winter has forced to say...thanks...but no thanks." Roger Clemens might be one of the saddest examples of hubris I can think of -- unless Lance Armstrong is somehow definitely proven to have doped his way through seven Tour de France's.
To wrap it up as I now only have 35 minutes to finish this assignment, here's Roger's I'm retiring, but not really going to say it quote:
Give it up.
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Roger said he is not a quitter.
So he would never quit baseball. But he said he would walk away from it. Take that as you like. I get the impression that this is about as definitive a statement as you’ll get that he is through, and now he is “rocking and rolling” to use his words from the article.
by clack on Oct 15, 2008 5:44 PM CDT 0 recs
How are not quitting and walking away mutually exclusive things
They sound the exact same.
The Crawfishboxes
A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by DyingQuail on
Oct 15, 2008 7:32 PM CDT
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It’d been about 3-4 months since I even really thought about Roger Clemens… I don’t think it’s been long enough :)
Go 'Stros!
by Stros Bro on Oct 15, 2008 7:00 PM CDT 0 recs
Hubris a go go
Simply unbelievable how thoroughly he has destroyed his own reputation. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Hi, my name is Rich and I'm an Astroholic.
by Austin Astroholic on Oct 16, 2008 9:14 PM CDT 0 recs
















