I usually take Curt Schilling's messages with a grain of salt. He seems to spit out something every few weeks because he feels no one is paying attention to him. He makes a statement that I actually agree with.
I've been a borderline Roger Clemens fan since he first showed up in Boston so many years ago. He never played for my Orioles, when I actually paid attention to them. I then met him sometime in the late 90's or January 2000. I was working with an organization at the time that had him cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the convention we were running. I think we booked him for 2 hours, but he stayed an extra hour to sign the 100 or so extra baseballs the organization had purchased to give to prominent attendees and staff. I was the beneficiary of receiving one of those and I still have it in my home office. Nice guy for the 10 seconds I got to say "Hi".
Now I'm at an impasse. I agree with Schilling. If the Rocket had extra rocket fuel, I'd be inclined to say take away his Cy Young's. But that will only happen if Clemens admits usage, and I don't think that will happen.
Really, in the end, MLB should just leave the past be. They can't prove exactly when these players took their drugs and in some cases, other than the word of a trainer or Jose Canseco, they can't even prove that they took them at all.
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