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Readin', Writin', 'Roid Rage

If there were a Hall of Fame for the morally self-righteous wielding a hackneyed vocabulary, it would be filled with sportswriters condemning Roger Clemens.

Do you or anyone you know fully understand the uproar all these years about steroids in professional sports? I don't.

On MSNBC talk show Morning Joe (Scarborough) June 19 the resident commentators held forth on the topic and their consensus was that pitching immortal Roger Clemens deserves to be in baseball's Hall of Fame, as does Barry Bonds.

I agree.

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Clemens was just cleared on all counts of perjury in the lengthy, extra-innings case against him for alleged steroid use. How steroid use has become a crime of such import -- who's the victim? -- is as abstract as a Bill James spreadsheet.

Read on here

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