At one point in the story, Hughes says: "God-given ability can only get you so far, then it's up to you to maximize that. Even if I can just take a little bit of what Roger did for us last year, (to) see the way he works out ... see the way he goes about his business, it kind of gives you an idea of what you need to do to stay in this game as long as he did."...If the Hughes feature was shot before the Mitchell Report came out, it would have been a good idea for YES - perhaps through "Hot Stove" host Bob Lorenz - to mention that fact. And if the Hughes interview was shot after the report was released, well, YES made the young pitcher look like a fool.

Someone should have edited the Clemens line out of the story. Unless, of course, it was left in on purpose to further discredit Mitchell's report.

No matter how one feels about the McNamee allegations, I don't understand what's wrong with a young pitcher saying that he learned something from Clemens' workout regimen. The same would be true if Hughes says that Clemens gave him advice on how to throw a splitter or a curveball, etc. We've gotten to the point that a player is held up for ridicule if he says something positive about Roger Clemens?

Apparently Raissman intends to assail the journalistic integrity of the YES network. But his suggestion that the network should have edited the line about Clemens out of the interview leaves me wondering about his own understanding of media ethics. Whether the purpose is to make Hughes look better or to protect the Mitchell Report from any skepticism, editing out the remark would reflect greater bias than he alleges arises from leaving the quote in the interview.

Raissman is a notorious bitter grump. I blame his hair, and lack thereof.

For me, _not_ using deodorant tends to produce a halo effect...