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Originally Posted by riverside sluggers
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I guess that MLB Trade Rumors got the idea from the linked article by Davidoff, missing a critical line, bolded below:
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Originally Posted by Ken Davidoff
Many friends of Clemens believe he wants to end his career where it began, with the Boston Red Sox. Were that to happen, Clemens would be a "teammate" of Mitchell, who is a Red Sox director. But the Red Sox have a surplus of starting pitchers.
While Clemens has been publicly pulverized since the release of the Mitchell Report, it should be stressed that Mitchell presented only one witness, McNamee, who accused Clemens of wrongdoing. There is no corroborating witness, and, unlike many of the other players named, no paper trail.
It would be nearly impossible for baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to suspend Clemens based on the Mitchell Report's findings, as the alleged transgressions occurred before baseball had a collectively bargained drug-testing program.
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Ken Davidoff is a sportwriter who trusts his opinions and his friends opinions. His first paragraph quoted above is opinion, not fact. Rob Neyer, I guy I respect, has had at least one run-in with Davidoff. Neyer favors facts, IMO. I think that Davidoff goes out on limbs too much, and that he's done it again in this article.
Those last two quoted paragraphs Davidoff wrote I'd concur with. I don't think that there's much chance of Clemens coming back to Boston, though: Theo and the FO gave him a great shot at being part of the 2007 team and he ran off to the Yankees, where he had both pitching trouble and injury trouble. Now he's cited in the Mitchell Report. Frankly, I can't see any team except for the Yankees or the Astros even being interested at this point, and I think that Boston would be interested least of all.
But that's just my opinion...I've got one, Davidoff's got one.
