Monday, June 16, 2003

"THE ROCKET" NEEDS (SOMETHING UNMENTIONABLE IN POLITE COMPANY)

Showing up at Fenway already commemorating your 300th win against the team that you're playing that night is a sign that you're a pompous jerk, to put it mildly. So I agree with Michele about his latest antics (via Jim at OTB), and the quote below echoes my sentiments exactly:
It's a serious slap in the face to the people of Boston to do anything but accept his entrance into the Hall in the cap with a B on it.

More particularly, it's a slap in the face of Sox fans, who are, it should be said, used to slaps in the face on occasion. Oh well.
MORE: Jay Caruso begs to differ and has a few nasty things to say about the Sox and their fans. Fair enough. I think that the question is not, in the abstract, whether or not Clemens should go in as a Red Sox or a Yankee, but whether or not he should complain if the Hall decides that he should go in with the Sox, and how his recent complaints reflect on his character.