The Cooperstown Juice Bar

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Roger Clemens

Yes, this picture is here for a reason other than ogling Debbie Clemens.

This is one of the pictures that Roger threw his wife under the bus for, admitting that SHE had used steroids to get in this kind of shape, but he'd never touch the stuff.

The fact that he said all of this in Congress, of all places, takes much more guts than brains...which appears to be Roger's recurring MO.

Guys who try to bluster and stare down Congress don't usually succeed, and it's a very misguided sense of John Wayne-on-PCP kind of bravado that keeps Clemens as defiant as he is.

The fact that he needed to come on Mike and Mike to run down a book that many people didn't know existed, in effect doing little but providing free publicity for the authors, gives us a clue that the man's actions really aren't governed by any interior sense of quality control. If his mistakes were centered around chasing women, we'd say he was thinking with the wrong head, but for this, who knows what's making his decisions for him?

As far as his numbers go, if he doesn't deserve entry into Cooperstown, they should just close the place now.

Third all-time in strikeouts, sure to be one of the last 350-game winners, seven Cy Youngs, two Triple Crowns...seriously.

The same oversized grapefruits that are getting him in so much trouble now are the very things that made him a pitcher feared like few others not named Nolan Ryan or Walter Johnson.

His production always seemed like a rollercoaster ride, dizzying heights followed by "off years" that most pitchers would still give a glovehand finger for. He suffered a couple of injury-shortened years in his final Boston seasons, problems which never seemed to recur as one might expect. His years in New York were nowhere near as dominant as his pair in Toronto, but with the way the Yankees were built, did they really have to be?

Bottom line, Clemens may be a complete idiot for trying to tilt with this windmill, and it will cost him the votes that really matter in the end, but I'll still give him mine. APPROVED

Jason Giambi

For eight years, Giambi was most certainly on a Hall of Fame pace. .304-32-109 as an average while being almost dead even on strikeouts and walks

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