Rocket's final flare

Let me start by saying - It's over. Finished. Done with. Completed. Signed, sealed and delivered for public consumption just the way it is.

Roger Clemens is done saying anything different than what he just laid out for the same media that worshiped his every move minutes ago. He's had his peace and there's nothing anyone can or will do in the future to change his stance. You know why?
It's a great place to be standing, like on the Greek side in the Battle of Thermopylae, so bloodily replayed for the masses in the movie 300. My point is a simple one - This has become a classic "He said, He said" in which neither side has any reason to change their story.

Brian McNamee may say over the phone, legally taped by Roger Clemens, that's he living in a one-room apartment. That his kid is sick and he's no longer with his wife and he's been offered '7 figures' to tell his side of the story AND one day he might take the money.

But the point is, his side of the story, the same one he told the government and former Sen. George Mitchell, isn't going to change. If it does, he goes to jail. And not the happy-go-lucky jail like Kenny from Half Baked. He's going to the one the Michael Vick is trying to reduce his time from by completing a drug addiction program.

For all the hits he's taken, and there's been tons, Roger isn't gonna change his statements either. There's no need for him to because he'll never get tested again. There's no proof that he did anything and he's really pissed because those same people who loved him have now turned on him.

And that whole Hall of Fame doesn't matter line is pure malarky. If he didn't care about the history of the game, there wouldn't be tons of camera footage of him kissing plaques in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium.
Clemens expected everyone to keep the same company line they've been spouting for the past decade, that his dedication to an off-season workout plan was the reason he was still throwing gas into his mid-40s, like another Texas great Nolan Ryan. We weren't supposed to take the same angle we took with Barry Bonds and immediately find him guilty. He was supposed to get the benefit of the doubt. He hasn't and now he's pissed, but as I said from the start, I'm done with all of it.

Wake me up in March when it all starts over again. The MLB season, I mean.