Clemens threatens to boycott HOF Induction

[John Corn]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2003/0615/1568234.html

This is absolutely ridiculous... :confused:

[platinum]

Originally posted by John Corn
http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2003/0615/1568234.html

This is absolutely ridiculous... :confused:


I think a player should have the right to determine what hat he wears to the hall.

[firephoto]

Enjoy your party in Palm Springs Roger, it isn't a democracy, it's baseball. ;)

[bills976]

Look at it from Clemens' prospective:

The guy is essentially forced out of town by the idiotic management of the BoSox. The fans boo him when he returns to Fenway even though he wanted to stay in Boston. Boston hates him, he hates Boston. It would be like Benedict Arnold being buried with an American flag covering his casket instead of a British flag.

[Msguy]

Clemens should go in the Hall as a Yankee. He should as should every player be allowed to select which cap he wears into the hall. He's the man who made his accomplishments in that sport. Not Major League Baseball.

[Maniacal1]

While I'd like to see players choose which cap they wear to the Hall of Fame, that privilege has caused some problems in recent years. In recent years, two players have tried to make money from the privilege, approaching their multiple former teams to find out what it was worth to them. I think from a perspective of integrity that the Hall has done the right thing in deciding to make the choice for players.

I'm sure Roger's talk is a lot of bluster. But if he's willing to miss such an important moment over a cap, then he's the only one who will lose out.

[RandyAB]

Easy to boycott something now that will not happen until at least 2009.

[BobMurdoch]

I'm just wondering if, when he gives his speech, will he throwing baseballs at the heads of the other busts. You know, just to be consistent.

[John Corn]

How long did Roger pitch for the Red Sox? How many of his wins came from the Yankees? Couldn't just about ANY player win for the Yankees?

Why should the HoF care if Clemens got an extra $3 mil bonus to agree to go in as a Yankee?

NEWS FLASH!!!!!!! Even the YANKEES have to play by the rules and that means that the HoF gets to choose based on the career numbers by the player.

Does this mean that Wade Boggs should go in as a Devil Ray because the Red Sox "let him go"? (this was a good point from another forum).

Who should Rickey Henderson represent? The Yankees?
:shrug:

[bills976]

Originally posted by John Corn
How long did Roger pitch for the Red Sox? How many of his wins came from the Yankees? Couldn't just about ANY player win for the Yankees?


Let Jeff Weaver answer that question....

[HarryD]

I have mixed feelings about this...

First, I wish Roger would keep his mouth shut! The game of baseball is way bigger than Mr Clemens. And it's way too early to have this going on!

OTH, the HOF committee should take into consideration Roger's situation at Boston (even though he was there for 13 years and had 190+ wins)
RedSox fans are brutal!

[BobMurdoch]

He'll cave. At this point they should put him in a Red Sox hat out of spite. Threatening to stay away and actually doing it are two different things entirely.

At the very least a lot of the sportswriters who actually vote on these things may not be too anxious to put him in the first ballot now. Then again, this problem doesn't come to a head until 2009 at a minimum so who knows.

[djlong]

He wanted to stay in Boston?????

WHAT A CROCK!

This is the guy who said he wanted to play somewhere warm, to be near his family and that was more important to him than money. Then he signed with the Blue Jays.

Roger Clemens is an *oustanding* pitcher who just plain does NOT have a clue when it comes to common sense. His interviews in Boston were legendary - like about how he complained that he had to carry his own luggage on road trips. His antics were infuriating - just ask Butch Hobson what it's like to try and talk to your star pitcher and the guy won't take his walkman headphones off.

I can respect the man's baseball achievements while still thinking that, as a human being, he's a dork. His gift is with a baseball, certainly not with the spoken word :-)

[BobMurdoch]

As a Mets fan you can imagine MY opinion of the guy (Piazza headhunting (Mike hasn't been the same player since the beaning), various anti-Mets comments, the bat throwing incident at Piazza in the Series, etc. But at least we got to watch him suffer when the Boston Pen blew his lead in Game 6 in 1986.