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AP: Clemens likely to make first start for Yankees on Monday at Chicago

Roger Clemens is ready to return to the New York Yankees’ rotation and likely will start at the Chicago White Sox next Monday.

Clemens pitched six shutout innings for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Monday, and Yankees manager Joe Torre said before Tuesday’s game against Toronto that he’ll stay with Chien-Ming Wang, Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte as his starters for this weekend’s series at AL East-leading Boston.

“I’m not disappointed that he’s not pitching at Fenway,” Torre said. “I don’t think that series needs any more hype than it gets every time we play it, whether it’s in Fenway or at the Stadium. You’d obviously be tempted if you had a kid pitching and you can replace him with Roger Clemens. When you have Wang, Moose and Andy, there’s really not the temptation to do that.”
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If Clemens is put on the major league roster Monday, he would receive $18,207,665 this season, a prorated share of his $28,000,022 salary.

NTNgod Posted: May 29, 2007 at 11:52 PM | 29 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 12:07 AM (#2383185)

I know what I'll be doing on Monday.

2. robinred

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 12:15 AM (#2383220)

Damn. Lost my bet.

3. Shock Posted: May 30, 2007 at 01:29 AM (#2383530)

Awesome. Suck it, FOX.

4. NTNgod Posted: May 30, 2007 at 01:33 AM (#2383542)

So ESPN will just grab it instead, somehow.

5. TerpNats Posted: May 30, 2007 at 01:34 AM (#2383543)

Jerry Reinsdorf will be happy next Monday. And it's not as if the "other" Sox will lose any money from Clemens not pitching at Fenway.

6. JC in DC Posted: May 30, 2007 at 01:42 AM (#2383586)

Too little, too late.

7. Dewey, Steven Wright Wannabe and Soupuss Posted: May 30, 2007 at 01:42 AM (#2383593)

Jerry Reinsdorf will be happy next Monday.

And it's pretty much a guaranteed "W" for Clemens, so it's win-win!

8. Bitter Calculus Instructor Posted: May 30, 2007 at 01:59 AM (#2383716)

I expect Clemens to pitch very well. He is a great pitcher.

However, the Yankees thus far have been playing like fetid pile of garbage. They've been sucking so hard, Yankee Stadium has become a vortex of suck. They stink so bad you can smell it accross the country. They're buried so deep that down has become up. Adding Clemens to the Yankees at this point is like equiping an unarmed level 1 rogue with a short sword and expecting him to take down an adult red dragon. It will help, but he ain't gonna take down no dragon.

(Second paragraph may contain hyperbole)

9. villageidiom Posted: May 30, 2007 at 02:15 AM (#2383803)

I have tickets to the Red Sox on Saturday. I'm fully expecting a "Where is Roger?" chant.

10. PJ Martinez Posted: May 30, 2007 at 02:18 AM (#2383818)

Fortunately, games pitched by Roger Clemens count double. So that 14.5 game deficit really isn't so bad, so long as they win all of his starts.

11. Crispix Attacks Posted: May 30, 2007 at 02:41 AM (#2383898)

Just imagine how Orioles, Jays and Drays fans feel reading Brad's second paragraph, written when the Yankees are tied with where those other teams have always been.

I'm fully expecting a "Where is Roger?" chant.

How does that one go? To "Frere Jacques"? Are there any other words?

12. Robert S. Posted: May 30, 2007 at 02:49 AM (#2383926)

He hasn't demanded a trade yet?

13. vortex of dissipation Posted: May 30, 2007 at 03:18 AM (#2384049)

How does that one go? To "Frere Jacques"? Are there any other words?

I believe it's sung to the melody of the backing vocals on "Paperback Writer".

14. Long John McCaine Mutiny on the Bounty (scott) Posted: May 30, 2007 at 03:32 AM (#2384075)

i hope he pitches well every time out and the bullpen blows every game. ####### fuckface ######.

15. base ball chick Posted: May 30, 2007 at 03:38 AM (#2384088)

Clarence Thomas met Justice O'Connor! (scott) Posted: May 29, 2007 at 11:32 PM (#2384075)

i hope he pitches well every time out and the bullpen blows every game. ####### ######## ######.

- grinning
it will feel like he's back with the astros
hehhehheh

and pettitte isn't geting any run support neither
hehhehheh

hehhehheh
HEHhehhehheh

16. Paul S Posted: May 30, 2007 at 04:26 AM (#2384118)

I went to the game tonight, and there were no boisterous Yankee fans. No one said a word to me for wearing a Sox hat. It was sort of pathetic, really. I was hoping one of them would confront me and I would point out that Clemens will totally help out. He just has to make 50-60 starts and pitch like he did in 2001.

17. Shibal Posted: May 30, 2007 at 04:36 AM (#2384123)

I was reading a Yankee board the other day and saw someone congratulating all the posters for their comments, saying this proves that Yankee fans aren't fair-weather fans. Classic stuff....gotta feel for those guys.

18. TerpNats Posted: May 30, 2007 at 04:42 AM (#2384126)

Where is Roger? Where is Roger?
Can he throw? Can he throw?
Started in Chicago. Pitched like sunken cargo.
Yanks just suck. Yanks just suck.

Keep up things like that and come fall, at least two-thirds of America will be rooting for the Angels to beat the Bosox in the ALCS.

19. Milford Blatti Posted: May 30, 2007 at 04:50 AM (#2384130)

Keep up things like that and come fall, at least two-thirds of America will be rooting for the Angels to beat the Bosox in the ALCS.

?

Is this implying that 2/3 of America loves Roger and won't stand to see him taunted?

20. Rough Carrigan

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 04:52 AM (#2384131)

Yeah, cuz all the rest of america pities those poor yankees.

21. Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: May 30, 2007 at 04:56 AM (#2384133)

Keep up things like that and come fall, at least two-thirds of America will be rooting for the Angels to beat the Bosox in the ALCS.

I mean, that's already true just due to payroll and publicity.

Taunting Roger Clemens is immaterial to this issue, though.

22. Shibal Posted: May 30, 2007 at 05:12 AM (#2384142)

I'm sure I speak for most of America when I say the only redeeming factor the Yankees have is their hatred for Boston. And vice versa.

23. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: May 30, 2007 at 05:31 AM (#2384144)

I'm sure I speak for most of America when I say the only redeeming factor the Yankees have is their hatred for Boston. And vice versa.

And absorbing terrorist attacks and taking them like men, freeing up Jack Bauer to save LA.

24. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: May 30, 2007 at 05:58 AM (#2384147)

The Angels have a pretty huge payroll, too.

25. Van Lingle Mungo Jerry Posted: May 30, 2007 at 01:42 PM (#2384262)

Fearless prediction: with the Yankees far from contention, Clemens will spend most of September in Texas, nursing some minor injury, cashing George's checks and laughing all the way to the bank. He'll make a miraculous recovery to make one final home start at a date and against an opponent of his choosing, then call it a career.

26. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: May 30, 2007 at 02:14 PM (#2384295)

Yes, because if any single word could describe Roger Clemens, that word would have to be "malingerer." (Perhaps you should get a little more fearful in the prediction department.)

27. TerpNats Posted: May 30, 2007 at 02:18 PM (#2384302)

Keep up things like that and come fall, at least two-thirds of America will be rooting for the Angels to beat the Bosox in the ALCS.

?

Is this implying that 2/3 of America loves Roger and won't stand to see him taunted?

No, this is implying that Red Sox fans have become every bit as self-righteous and obnoxious as their Yankee counterparts.

28. bunyon Posted: May 30, 2007 at 02:20 PM (#2384306)

I think Torre should start Clemens every other day. Let him go out on his shield.

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