Roger Clemens (Official Thread)

[sears3820]

Great parenting Rocket.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ens_youth_game



Roger Clemens Is Ejected From Son's Game

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CRAIG, Colo. - Houston Astros (news) pitcher Roger Clemens was asked to leave a youth baseball game over the weekend for arguing a close call that went against his son's team.

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Clemens was at the game Saturday watching his son, Kacy, compete in a 10-and-under game organized by Triple Crown Sports when Clemens contested a call at second base that went against the Katy Cowboys.

He spit sunflower seeds at an umpire's leg and was asked to leave, said Jim Carpenter, a field supervisor with Triple Crown.

"I supported the umpire's decision and he (Clemens) respectfully left," Carpenter told the Craig Daily Press.

Katy lost the game to the Bakersfield Curve, 11-5.


Triple Crown Sports features a franchise system aimed at pitting top teams from across the country against each other.

Clemens' agent, Randall Hendricks, did not immediately return a call Monday. Clemens has racked up 322 wins and 4,240 strikeouts in his 21-year major league career.

[BuckeyeSkins]

Great pitcher but I always thought he was an arrogant prick.

[BuckBackHome]

What a surprise. Ump is lucky there wasn't a broken bat sitting around somewhere.

Hey, anyone know if the rumor was true that Piazza was telling batters the pitches coming their way in the first inning of the all-star game?

[sears3820]

Hey, anyone know if the rumor was true that Piazza was telling batters the pitches coming their way in the first inning of the all-star game?

I think there may be a lot of truth to that.

[BuckWrestler141]

About 5 years ago he (Clemens) was hunting right near where I live. He wasn't registered and it was out of season however so my father being a game worden gave him a ticket. He came back laughing about the tantrum he threw with remarks "I won a f**king world series last year do you NOT know who i am?"

[BuckeyeNation27]

this story is unfair. i was at the little league game and the ref blew that call. he said the kid was out when infact he scored 7 runs by sliding in to second base. it completely changed the outcome of the game and clemens shouldve gotten upset like he did.

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[buckeyefool]

let me guess, no body here has EVER gotten upset at an offical during one of their sons or daughters games. To Me this article is a non story, hell at least he goes to his kids games, I'm sure most pro athletes dont even know all their kids name or where they live much less actually make there little league game

[sears3820]

Sure we've all gotten upset but to the point to actually confront an official/ump about it???

[tibor75]

Nobody has ever explained intelligently why this sack of [censored] wasn't thrown out of the World Series when he tried to injure Piazza. The [censored]er threw a broken bat at him and then had the nerve to say, "I thought it was the ball!!!"

Meanwhile journalists and Tim McCarver go ape-[censored] when Manny Ramirez has the audacity to stare after hitting a home run or rip on Barry Bonds when he actually tells the press what they deserve to hear ("[censored] off"). Oh, but this guy throws balls at people's heads and sawed off bats at players he hate.....no big deal.

[BuckeyeNation27]

let me guess, no body here has EVER gotten upset at an offical during one of their sons or daughters games. To Me this article is a non story, hell at least he goes to his kids games, I'm sure most pro athletes dont even know all their kids name or where they live much less actually make there little league game

let me guess...a yankee fan?

[LoKyBuckeye]

I'm not a big Rocket fan but it looks like most of this was blow out of proportion by the media (go figure!)

Clemens given an apology for 'unjustly' being ejected at son's game

By BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer
August 5, 2004
Roger Clemens was given an emphatic apology Thursday for ``unjustly'' being ejected from his 10-year-old son's baseball game last weekend in Colorado.

David King, president of tournament organizer Triple Crown Sports, said ``Mr. Clemens was a non-aggressor and a victim of mistaken identity and confusion'' by an upset umpire.

Clemens was asked to leave son Kacy's game Saturday in Craig, Colo., when a 22-year-old ump said the Houston Astros pitcher spit a sunflower seed at him. Moments earlier, Kacy was called out on a stolen base attempt -- the fielder later admitted he missed the tag -- and the Rocket watched the rest of the contest from a parking lot.

``Mr. Clemens never raised his voice, never physically confronted our official, nor was he ever on the field of play,'' King said in a written statement, underlining those words.

``Mr. Clemens was unjustly asked to leave the field of play,'' King said. ``For all of this, we apologize to Mr. Clemens.''

King spoke to the future Hall of Famer by telephone to apologize personally.

``I'm pleased with their statement,'' Clemens said through agent Alan Hendricks before Houston played Atlanta.

Earlier this week, Clemens became upset when discussing the episode, saying, ``This is a shame and it's not even an issue.''

Clemens was away from the Astros, as his deal with the team allows when he's not pitching, to watch his son play for the Katy (Texas) Cowboys in a 10-and-under tournament.

Clemens was sitting on a bucket, behind a fence near the first base dugout, when Kacy was called out at second base in the middle innings of a game the Bakersfield (Calif.) Curve won 11-5.

The Katy coaches and fans complained about the call, but witnesses said Clemens never said a word. The umpire came over to quiet the ruckus, and said he was hit in the pants cuff by a sunflower seed spit by Clemens.

Clemens left without an argument and said ``he didn't want to be distraction and to let the boys play ball,'' Katy manager Doug Hanson said.

King said the Katy coaches were contesting the call and ``our official was upset and angered and approached the area to remove someone. In our official's judgment, a seed had come from the area during the coaches' arguments.

``After reviewing the situation, including the location of the official, it is impossible to believe that a seed was spit at our official by Roger Clemens or anyone.''

King also praised Clemens for talking to the young players, parents and coaches and signing lots of autographs.

``I have nothing but good things to say about Roger Clemens,'' King said later.

King did not identify the young umpire, but said he was a schoolteacher and in his seventh year of calling games.

``With all the complaining the Katy coaches were doing, one of them probably deserved to be gone,'' King said. ``But the vision and the reality, it took it in a direction that didn't happen.''

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1972067

I really don't know if anyone is worth that amount of money.

[exhawg]

You could get a real rocket for that much.

[sears3820]

I'm with you on the grand scheme of things 44820, I don't think anyone should be paid that much.

However, I do believe that Roger deserves to be the highest paid pitcher in the game based on his body of work.

[Brutus1]

More important than $18 mil, but he only plays once every 5 days and does not have to accompany the team on the road if he is not scheduled to start. He may be a Hall of Famer, but no way is he worth anywhere near that much.