Yes, he did HGH. No, I'm not proud of that, nor is that what the title of this blog post refers to. What I'm talking about is how he chose to handle this situation, as opposed to others in the same boat. He had a press conference yesterday, with some teammates and Joe Girardi there. He apologized, admitted he made a mistake and said he did it out of "desperation and stupidity". He also said that he didn't need the money and that the Yankees could terminate the contract if they wanted to. I didn't think he was being superficial with that statement one bit. I hate what he did and hate the fact he did it, but rather than go down the road one of his teammates is currently skipping down, he chose to be honest, come clean and not turn into the angry innocent victim. Which clearly isn't working for Clemens, if you haven't already figured that out. I've earned a new-found respect for him, for at least manning up and admitted he screwed up. It obviously would be better if he had not done it at all, and I'm sad that a player I've respected and admired for a long time would do something like that, but if you're willing to admit fault and ask people to forgive you, I can at least do my best to try. And I think we all should.
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One of these days you'll have to give us a post about the basics of baseball for us newbs.
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