SI's Babbling About Roger.....And WAY OFF The Mark...

From Friday's SI, and I'll be back to ridicule this as only I can (or try to!).....

"By unloading Randy Johnson, the New York Yankees didn't merely clear $14 million of his $16 million salary off their books and move a pitcher who didn't comfortably fit in New York back home to Arizona (not to mention one who just had back surgery -- though word is he's fine and will be ready for spring training). Or add four younger, less expensive players to the Yankees' organization. They also greatly enhanced their chances of signing the star pitcher they really want: Roger Clemens.
Some baseball officials say they believe Clemens is much more likely to sign with the Yankees now that Johnson is out. And that's true not only because the Yankees have more money to spend with Johnson gone. Word is, Clemens doesn't particularly care for Johnson and wouldn't have considered coming to the Yankees had the Big Unit still been in pinstripes.
In any case, baseball people now view the Yankees as the strong favorite to sign Clemens over the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox. Things can change, however. Clemens isn't expected to pitch until late May at the earliest despite the Yankees' preference that he start earlier. But Clemens is thought to be excited about returning to a place where there's urgency and drama surrounding every outing and a World Series-like atmosphere (though to be fair, the Astros have been in more World Series than the Yankees since The Rocket left New York)."

Peter here, and...uummm...let me respond to that last convoluted sentence. "Returning to a place where there's urgency and drama....and a World Series-like atmosphere...." Now doesn't that describe Fenway Park, not just EVERY season, but this coming 2007 season? So that last utterance by SI was sheer malarky (wow, I've never used that in a sentence. It means sheer BS!) So if Roger decides to go anywhere, I hope it's Houston, Texas, rather than that city nicknamed after a fruit (think cider). As we all do. But I think he wants to go back to where the magic, his magic, started. Back back back to when he was a big kid who could throw the ball by any hitter imaginable. And we in the stands ooohed and ahhed...I wish you could have been there. Oh, I put up the link for the original article on the title...all you have to do is click. But I'm much funnier to read! I think? Take care...every one of you.