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Yankees Won't Re-Sign Clemens
Anthony McCarron got another tidbit out of Hank Steinbrenner in his interview yesterday. He learned that the Yankees will not consider re-signing Roger Clemens, if he does play in 2008.
Hank feels that Andy Pettitte will provide all the veteran leadership his staff needs, and he doesn't expect Roger back anyway. Back on December 15th, Ken Davidoff suggested that Clemens was leaning toward coming back, with his sights on the Red Sox or Astros.
Clemens will address Brian McNamee's steroid claims Sunday on 60 Minutes.
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Confusing typo, you may want to change that to will not on the link asap.
Posted by: walkoffblast | January 03, 2008 at 11:16 AM
will see what condition the team is in come july, then will see if they wont resign clemens. they werent going to resign a-rod either...
Posted by: 04Forever | January 03, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Do Red Sox fans even want him back? After the way he pimped them last year only to return to the Yanks, I was under the impression that most of the Red Sox Nations gave him a big middle finger.
Posted by: Smoltz's Beard | January 03, 2008 at 11:34 AM
I forgot, the yearly sagas. In football those Packer fans wonder if Brett Farve will return. In baseball, will Roger Clemens return...and with which team. I hope the Red Sox, Yankees and Astros tell him 'no thank you'.
Posted by: studio179 | January 03, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Fixed it, thanks dude
Posted by: Tim Dierkes | January 03, 2008 at 11:51 AM
It will be interesting to see if the Drama Queen will play another partial year. His best hope would be the Astros, and I can't imagine him getting much money. He's burnt a lot of bridges. But somehow Drayton McLane still loves him
Posted by: Mike Simms | January 03, 2008 at 12:01 PM
imagine the way he'd be villified if he were black.
wow, he might be assassinated.
Posted by: bsox21 | January 03, 2008 at 12:09 PM
I seriously doubt the Astros have any interest. Not only due to his contract demands, his steroids involvement and the fact that he looked done last year, but he really played McLane and the Astros fans last season.
The only way he'd come back to Houston would be with an admission of guilt, an apology and a rock bottom price, none of which the giant ego named Clemens would stand for.
Posted by: astrosfan | January 03, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Funny, I read the headline and nearly barked out loud "no SH!T". I can only hope that he signs with the Sox to sandbag the RSN. They might riot. Good fun.
Clemens has made a career about being a mercenary, not beloved. You reap what you sow. Clemens can find solace in his Hummer that the Yanks gave him after he "retired" in 2003, then un-retired for four more years. That and a hundy mill...
Posted by: jnr98 | January 03, 2008 at 12:19 PM
I doubt that he lost too much of his relationship with McLane after last year. Anyway, why wouldn't he go to the Astros? Ed Wade has worked on the offense and the relief core extensively, to the point that he hasn't done anything for the rotation (except picking up perrenial Cy Young Jack Cassel). This must be part of Ed's strategy....wait, he has a strategy? Ah, YES, Oswalt and Clemens to start every single game from June onward. Brilliant!
Posted by: Solman15 | January 03, 2008 at 12:34 PM
"they werent going to resign a-rod either..."
Yup, and they had no interest in Santana after Hankensteins deadline either.
" They came and got me out of Texas" - Roger Clemens 2007 ( While Suzyn Waldman has multiple orgasms in the backround.) I wonder if he retires if the Yankees will get him another car. Didnt they do that when he retired right before he went to Houston? Eh, not sure could have been someone else couldnt say for certain. Ran into an interesting read about Clemens from about 6 or 7 years ago. Check it out.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1206543
Posted by: nrmax88 | January 03, 2008 at 12:37 PM
nrmax88: funny you mentioned the car as I noted just above. I think they got him a burnt orange Hummer. Hope he forgot to pay taxes on it.
Posted by: jnr98 | January 03, 2008 at 12:44 PM
The Yankees say alot of things that they don't stick to, so I won't hold much stock in this.
But Clemens has something of a 10 year personal services contract with the Astros that starts when he finally retires, so he and McLane have to be on somewhat decent terms.
Posted by: Ya Hote Ta | January 03, 2008 at 01:27 PM
I dont think the Redsox would want Roger if he came for free. Well, maybe if he was free, but probably not.
Posted by: nrmax88 | January 03, 2008 at 01:29 PM
If he came free they would take him and setup him up in a dunking booth at every home game selling the officially licensed Red Sox Dunk Tank Baseballs 4 for 40 dollars but you get a 5th one free if you join Red Sox Nation. Suddenly two months into the season the Red Sox now make even more money than the Yankees.
Posted by: walkoffblast | January 03, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Who cares???
Posted by: TheGrinch | January 03, 2008 at 03:49 PM