Roger Clemens. The name suggests strikeouts. Big-game pitching behind murderous fastballs for the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. It now denotes something else. The allegation of using performance-enhancing drugs.

HGH...steroids, the dirty little secret that is little no more. These days, when a baseball player is accused of playing with HGH/steroids in addition to baseballs, he is brought to Washington to appear before Congress. That Congress should have better things to do with their days is another story.

Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, and now Roger Clemens have all been called to answer to our Government, which has supplanted baseball apparently as the law of the baseball land. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds have become the poster children for what has gone wrong with baseball in the age of players being juiced. Although neither admit to any wrongdoing until now, there is no answer to why a player, one who should be in the twilight of his career, can suddenly achieve more around the age of 40 than they did ten years earlier.

Roger Clemens had been given a pass in the media, and although there had been whispers about him and using, it was nothing in comparison to what the media had to say about Barry Bonds. The reason is open to debate. I would say it is one part race, one part Bonds being the surliest dude in town towards the media, and one part Barry Bonds daring to interrupt the sleep of home run legends, 755, and all that.

Roger Clemens, like Barry Bonds, had the talent to go to Cooperstown without any additives. Roger Clemens, like Barry Bonds, fell on the sword of avarice. Enough is never enough for their breed. Their fame is a drug, like steroids, that is addictive in the spoils it provides.

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