WASHINGTON. As she watched her husband's defiant testimony before Congress yesterday, Debbie Clemens could only shake her head in sadness over how far she has fallen. "I stand by Roger 110%," she said with tears forming in her eyes. "I only wish that--like him--I could have just said no."
Debbie Clemens
While her husband continues to deny that he used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he won seven Cy Young Awards, more than Cy Young himself, Debbie Clemens has admitted that she used human growth hormone before a Sports Illustrated photo shoot, enabling her to appear more buxom than Yankees' second baseman Chuck Knoblauch. "It was wrong, and I apologize," she said, "especially to all those little girls out there who are just strapping on their first training bras."
In happier times.
In her prime, Debbie Clemens was considered one of the greatest housewives in baseball history, chauffering her four children to school and youth sports events while maintaining a rigorous workout schedule, spending up to 35 minutes on exercise machines unless other people were waiting. She holds the modern-day record for consecutive children named after strikeouts--Koby, Kory, Kacy and Kody. In the pre-modern era, Lucy Yemm, wife of Bill "Five Finger" Yemm of the Cleveland Spiders, gave birth to Kevin, Karen, Kelly, Kyle and Kenneth.
"C'mon--you're hogging the Stairmaster!"
Clemens' confession was met less with surprise than relief by her circle of friends on Boston's North Shore, where the Clemens lived when Roger played for the Red Sox. "We'd go out for Mexican food," said Alice Sheehan, a neighbor. "The next day everybody'd be puffy but Debbie--you don't recover from a pitcher of margaritas like that unless you're on something."
"We lost your kid, so we're going to give you a FREE PIZZA!"
Clemens was sentenced to a year's probation and 200 hours of community service, which she will satisfy by working at the gift counter at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in a Houston suburb.
Let me get this straight. McNamee told the truth about Petite, Knoblach and Debbie Clemens, but not about Roger? McNamee worked for Clemens for 9 years thru 2007, yet Roger knew nothing about McNamee supplying PEDs to the aforementioned 3 people? McNamee told the truth about Clemens being at Canseco's house despite the golf receipt and the signed affidavit from Jose himself? Roger would have us believe that his wife Debbie allowed McNamee to shoot her full of HGH in the bedroom without Roger knowing? He would continue to employ McNamee for 4 more years after this incident? It’s OK with me if Clemens doesn’t go to jail. I would like to see Clemens’ lawyer Rusty Hardin and Congressman Dan Burton do hard time. These are two of the most de####able people I have ever seen. Yesterday’s hearing looked like Clemens used much of his accumulated wealth to bribe the Republican members of the committee.
B..I..T..C..H.. gets caught so she fesses up about being a sham! Oh and yeah right Clem did not know that she let mcnamee in her bedroom so he could poke her fanny with syringes. She is still abviously lying for her fugazzi husband..
Con Chapman is a Boston-area writer. He is the author of "The Year of the Gerbil: How the Yankees Won (and the Red Sox Lost) the Greatest Pennant Race Ever," a history of the 1978 AL East pennant race, and a number of plays, including "Number One Hockey Mom," "Please, Pope," and "What Mickey Belle Isle Told You," a trilogy about hockey (JAC Publishing). His work is available on Amazon Shorts (at 49 cents a dowload), and he writes on sports for Flak Magazine.
