I'm just kidding...I like Philip and his passion. I appreciate the Jays as well.
Philip and his “Passions” from “Toronto.” Lol.
Back in the 90s our family had the Boston channel coming in from the 90s cable package we had. This channel used to telecast Red Sox games. I would say 1993, 1994, 1995, and the first half of 1996…. Roger Clemens, definitely showed a decline. I remember at one point in like 1994/1995. He wasn’t even throwing 90 miles an hour anymore. He was getting gunned at 88 miles an hour. And this is when they used to register speed across the plate, losing about 4 to 7 mph from the hand. He changed his pitching mechanics, where his arm would really drag behind his body. His throwing arm wouldn’t even go straight up in the position anymore. It would just go down, pause low and weird He was throwing a lot of off-speed stuff….. definitely not even close to the pitcher he was. I always thought it looked like he was nursing a dead/tired arm. However, his second half of the 1996 season was looking good. This is where he struck out 20 batters again against the Tigers.
Then he signs with Toronto for the 1997 season. All of a sudden, his mechanics are back in shape, and he seems to have resurrected his dead arm. I was at his first start as a Bluejay against the Chicago White Sox in SkyDome. He was all of a sudden throwing in the mid-90s, and it did seem peculiar for sure. I followed his career so closely, and I noticed this to be weird immediately. So if he did, in fact, do something it’s fair to say it would’ve started during the 96 season, which was his last season with the Red Sox.
My argument is Brian McNamee his former trainer, claims to have injected Clements for the first time in 1998. That does not coincide with his resurrection. And he had reason to save his own ass from prosecution, so he was going to rat somebody out…. Clemens trained like an animal, he developed a really good split finger and learned how to set it up…. And Roger Clemens has never been convicted of anything. So in all fairness, if it doesn’t fit, we must acquit…. And this is still not good enough to get voted into the Hall of Fame. I think he was such an asshole. He must’ve declined interviews with the wrong people, and he must’ve pissed off the wrong baseball writter association members. I think there’s a lot of members in the Hall of Fame that cheated. I have a note before of Rickey Henderson and Nolan Ryan….. but that’s a whole other thing lol.
I mean at the end of the day, Clemens was never convicted of anything, and he was dominant like no pitcher I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. Was he a cheater? I mean, aren’t we all in someway? Lmao. Roger was never found guilty, so fuck Mitchell and fuck his report.
Philip
