Spitting Mad?
By lefty
Today's biggest controversy in sports goes a little something like this: Roger Clemens got spitting mad when his son was called out while attempting to steal second base at a 10-year-old-and-under baseball tournament Saturday in Craig, Colorado. Unfortunately his mouth was full of sunflower seeds at the time, and one of the seeds happened to hit an ump.
But according to Clemens’ agent Randy Hendricks, Clemens was signing autographs when the disputed call occurred and he never even saw the play. Hendricks added that Clemens doesn’t remember anyone telling him to leave the field as well.
So Randy's story is that Clemens just decided to watch the rest of the game from the parking lot. And the ump made the whole thing up.
Clemens was at the game because he has a special deal with the Houston Astros that allows him to only attend games he’s actually pitching in. And now his agent and even the people at the game are writing their own versions of history - some going after the 20-year-old ump that did or didn't toss him. And it is unclear what the All-Star pitcher was doing when this violent incident did-or-didn't happen: some say he was signing autographs, some say he was sitting is his chair quietly recoding the game on his camcorder.
And Roger - well, he's cloudy about the whole incident - if, in fact, there was an incident. "To him, it's a non-event" said Hendricks in a quote to the AP reporter.
No word from the 20-year old ump yet. And Kasy Clemens' team lost anyway.
But whether anything happened or not - or whether this whole game is a figment of the collective imagination, we are proud to join in with the other trusted news sources of the world to bring you all the FACTS.
One version of the story can be found in the Rocky Mountain News.
