Viagra is the new, popular drug for athletes needing an extra boost on the field. The Daily News in New York reported that New York Yankee Roger Clemens stashed the pills in a vitamin bottle in his locker. He is just one among the various athletes that are using Viagra to get an edge on the competition - or maybe to do some more racy photoshoots with his wife for Sports Illustrated. Viagra and over-the-counter supplements imitating the drug are the most widely used nutritional product - even more than creatine.

Some uses not included on the label include: building endurance by delivering oxygen, nutrients and performance-enhancing drugs to muscles more efficiently. It is not currently banned my MLB or other sports. Taking Viagra does not violate any drug-testing regulations but the World Anti-Doping Agency is now funding a study to see if it can be used to cheat.

Roger Clemens’ reputation spirals further down the rabbit hole with his latest alleged affair surfacing. This time it’s the ex-wife of golfer John Daly, Paulette Dean Daly. But who cares about Clemens this time around; let’s talk some John Daly!

Hearing all this BS about a Roger Clemens / Mindy McCready tryst amidst his defamation of character suit against former trainer McNamee, I realized that I have never sat down and watched a baseball game in a decade, and that I have never listened to one of Mindy McCready’s songs. So here’s to rectifying the latter.

Yeah… It’s fair to say that I like Nashville’s Pop Radio sensations as much as I like watching baseball. That is, this much:

Which I guess makes me Un-American. C’est la vie.

In the ongoing saga that has become Roger Clemens vs former trainer Brian McNamee, “new shit has come to light.” Clemens, who on January 6th filed a defamation suit against McNamee, is now surrounded by speculation of a decade long affair with country music artist Mindy McCready. According to McNamee’s attorney:

“When you sue for defamation, you put your whole reputation in the community at issue. Anything is fair game, including his claim of sanctimonious purity.”

Clemens will hold that McCready has been nothing more than “a close family friend.” Either way, this situation cannot play out to anything better than a game of he said/she said. The circus that surrounds Clemens seems to gain more and more dancing bears as the months pass, and you can flat forget any notion of Clemens ever going to baseball’s Hall Of Fame.

The only sensible action at this point would be for Clemens to drop the defamation case. Without such an action, Clemens’ family is going to be unfairly and mercilessly tortured by a sex hungry media.

Roger Clemens: World Series Champion, Cy Young winner, ageless wonder…Steroid Abuser. End of story.

The past month in major league baseball since the delivery of the Mitchell Report has seen more harumphs than Blazing Saddles. The Rocket, because of his elevated status in the statistical history of the game, has been at the eye of the storm. By now you are undoubtedly familiar with the story. Today saw five plus hours of Congressional testimony by former trainer Brian McNamee and Clemens both. Representatives jumped to the defense of both men at times, but also attacked, depending on their personal takes on the matter. Dan Burton, R-Indianapolis, vehemently defended Clemens, barraging McNamee like a school bully. But, despite Clemens making a more convincing witness than McNamee, who has admittedly made a handful of false statements, former teammate Andy Pettite has not backed down as to Clemens’ guilt. Pettite, as you may or may not know, was another major name listed in the Mitchell report, and has come clean about his use of steroids and Human Growth Hormone. He maintains that Clemens was a fellow abuser, despite their once inseparable friendship. And on top of all this, McNamee now alleges that he injected Clemens’ wife, Debbie, with HGH as well.

What a circus! Can any real good can come of these hearings? The answer: NO! Roger Clemens reputation has been permanently tarnished, and in my opinion, rightfully so. I don’t care if there is a lack of “physical evidence.” With the list of players named in the Mitchell report that have already come clean due to accusation, how does it figure that Clemens, who was detailed more than any other player, stands as some exception to guilt? Is it reasonable to assume that McNamee decided to make all of this up after players like Andy Pettite and Chuck Knoblauch, former teammates of Clemens, have already come clean to allegations? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I can just picture McNamee, Pettite and Knoblauch sitting around the fire in the den of a cozy log cabin, smoking big cigars and drinking brandy…

“Hey gang,” says Pettite. “Anybody up for incriminating ourselves and ruining our reputations?”
“Only if we can bring down the Rocket,” pipes in Knoblauch.
“Well,” starts McNamee, “than have I got a story for you..”

Yeah, I bet it went something like that. Then the three of them had a quick tumble in the hay and went sledding.
Roger Clemens is guilty folks. There’s nothing else to it. The world is not always the conspiratorial box of slime that lawyers might want us to believe.