An interview with his friend Mike Wallace didn’t help, and setting up his accuser on a bizarre taped phone call in which he pretended to be concerned with the man’s sick child didn’t help either. Yesterday, an angry Roger Clemens called another press conference and introduced what appeared to be a new strategy in his battle to prove his innocence amidst rampant accusations of performance-enhancing drug use.
“I done got racismed,” Clemens said defiantly. “I got some bad racism, and that ain’t right. I know y’all are going to be behind me on this. There just ain’t no place for racism.”
Clemen’s lawyer, apparently preoccupied defending a man charged with public expectoration of tobacco, was unaware of Clemens’s statement. “Oh hell, I keep tellin’ that dumb ol’ boy to keep his trap shut,” said Rusty Hardin. “Y’all gotta have some patience with Roger. He ran the racism idea by me, but y’ gotta understand Roger don’t know what racism is. He just sees that it works for some other folks, and now he wants to try it. Kinda like how he got on the juice…allegedly.”
Meanwhile, Clemens said he is willing to speak publically about his allegations of racism. “Ain’t nobody gonna racism me. It ain’t gonna happen.”
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