WhiteSoxfan1986 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 (edited) Rotoworld Report: Clemens had 10-year affair The New York Daily News reports that Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready. If only he'd officially retire, we wouldn't have to bother with stuff like this. The Daily News says the romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old father or two. His attorney denied that the two had a sexual relationship. "He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her," Rusty Hardin said. "He's considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her." Apr. 28 - 1:45 am et Source: New York Daily News Wow. If this is true, it's amazing how stupid people can be. Fifteen? Edited April 28, 2008 by WhiteSoxfan1986 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjshoe04 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I hope this is true only because I hate to believe people would just make this kind of stuff up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingandalongonetoleft Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Wow. Didn't Canseco go out of his way to say this never happened with Roger and he was faithful to his wife? If this is true then methinks Jose knew something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Roger Clemens is a scumbag in every sense of the definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Meh, accusations come flying when someone famous is in trouble. Everyone looking for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Pratt Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 (edited) From the NYDN article: The revelations could torpedo claims of an unsullied character that are central to the defamation suit Clemens filed Jan. 6 against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. Vivid details of the affair could surface in several media projects that McCready is involved with - including a documentary that begins filming today in Nashville, a new album and a reality show. McCready, who lives on a quiet, tree-lined street in Nashville, is attempting a career comeback following a string of legal and personal woes. Contacted by the Daily News Sunday through his lawyer Rusty Hardin, Clemens confirmed a long-term relationship but denied that it was of a sexual nature. "He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her," Hardin said. "He's considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her." Hardin said the Rocket's wife, Debbie, knew McCready and that the singer had traveled on his plane. From a public relations standpoint, Clemens' decision to file the suit against McNamee the night the Rocket appeared with Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes" could end up being the biggest risk he has taken yet. Clemens, under investigation for perjury, has already endured the ignominy of publicly admitting his wife's own human growth hormone use, having photos of bloody gauze and needles linked to him and embarrassing scrutiny of an alleged injection-site abscess on his buttocks. 'Anything is fair game' The romantic link to McCready, which spanned his stints with the Red Sox, Blue Jays, Yankees and Astros, could emerge as a trump card for McNamee's legal team. "The issue in Roger's suit against McNamee is Roger's reputation and how it has been damaged," said Richard Emery, one of McNamee's lawyers who is handling the defamation suit. "If it's proved that he's a philanderer, his reputation is already damaged. When you sue for defamation, you put your whole reputation in the community at issue. Anything is fair game, including his claim of sanctimonious purity. We would cross-examine him and other witnesses who might impact on his alleged behavior. We would probably subpoena her and witnesses who knew [of the relationship]. He's a 'family man' - he implies that. It's about what his damages are. All is fair game." Page 2 of 3) The sources asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation. Hardin said Sunday he had no knowledge of an affair. McNamee, who worked with and traveled with Clemens extensively over the last decade, has confirmed that he saw Clemens and McCready together on many occasions, including in Clemens' room at his apartment in the former SkyDome, now Rogers Centre, in Toronto, and that Clemens talked of McCready often. Should McNamee decide to countersue for defamation, McCready could surface as a witness for that case as well. According to sources, Clemens was with his Red Sox teammates in a Fort Myers, Fla., bar when then-teenager McCready caught his eye. After Clemens threw a shirt with his and several teammates' signatures onstage, an introduction was made. "It was love at first sight, no doubt about it," said a source with intimate knowledge of the relationship. According to the source, McCready did not learn that Clemens was married to Debbie Clemens until McCready attended a baseball game with her two younger brothers and read Clemens' bio in the program. The source says that McCready was too young to be angered by the news that Clemens was taken. Clemens is the stupidest man in baseball for filing his suit and insisting that he be allowed to testify in front of Congress. Edited April 28, 2008 by Gregory Pratt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggsmaggs Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 01:09 AM) Wow. If this is true, it's amazing how stupid people can be. Fifteen? Come on, no even mentioned the name of his attorney. RUSTY HARDIN. You can't make this stuff up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Pratt Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Another good one: Sources say that when McCready, now 32, and Clemens were together, there was barely any friction between them. The two were known to take lavish trips to Las Vegas and New York. One time, McCready attended a Yankees game at the Stadium and jokingly donned a catcher's mask near the home dugout. During another Big Apple excursion, the two holed up in the trendy SoHo Grand and later partied with Monica Lewinsky and Michael Jordan. McCready, according to a source, even bummed a cigar off His Airness to give to Clemens. There were personal love missives to Clemens hidden in McCready's album liner notes. And it wasn't just McCready benefitting from Clemens' generosity. McCready and her brothers used the Rocket's plane for quick hops to to the Florida Keys. Clemens also bought golf clubs for McCready's father, Tim, according to the source with knowledge of the affair. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner's orchestrated public relations blitz began shortly after the Dec. 13 release of the Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball. It focused as much on Clemens' family-man reputation as it did on McNamee's checkered past and apparent lies about his involvement in an incident in Florida in 2001 for which he was investigated for sexual assault. No charges were ever filed in that case, but Clemens' lawyer Hardin papered the media with accounts of the incident. The relationship with McCready paints a very different picture of Clemens than the one drawn by Jose Canseco in his book "Juiced," where he went out of his way to say that Clemens was one of very few professional ballplayers who was faithful to his wife. And it smacks of a different Clemens than the one who spoke passionately of his family in his opening remarks to Congress Feb. 13. Debbie Clemens was seated behind her husband at the hearing. "Anyone who has spent time around me knows that my family is and has always been my top priority," a portion of the statement read. "My wife, Debbie, and my sons - Koby, Kory, Kacy and Kody - mean more to me than anything in the world. Having said that, baseball has definitely provided me with significant opportunities off the field." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Pratt Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Both of my posts have excerpts from here: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball...ar_fling_w.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I think what we have here is someone trying to make a career comeback trying to get her name in the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Pratt Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 08:09 AM) I think what we have here is someone trying to make a career comeback trying to get her name in the news. That may be , and likely is true, but that is not mutually exclusive with this story being true, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 08:09 AM) I think what we have here is someone trying to make a career comeback trying to get her name in the news. McCready, who lives on a quiet, tree-lined street in Nashville, is attempting a career comeback following a string of legal and personal woes. In other news, Barry Bonds sent a huge thank you to Roger Clemens for being a bigger target then himself. Amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCSox Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 06:59 AM) Clemens is the stupidest man in baseball for filing his suit and insisting that he be allowed to testify in front of Congress. QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 07:18 AM) In other news, Barry Bonds sent a huge thank you to Roger Clemens for being a bigger target then himself. Amazing. If anything, Barry is a hell of a lot smarter than Clemens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Pratt Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Bonds, of course, has all sorts of demons out in the public. I can't imagine what he's been able to keep private by refusing to talk about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallyburger Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 (edited) I believe this makes Roger a pedophile. Hard to believe the NY Daily News would put their butt on the line if this wasn't true. Edited April 28, 2008 by wallyburger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RME JICO Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Sounds eerily like Bill Clinton: "He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her," Rusty Hardin said. "He's considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her." Notice it says relationship. Nice choice of words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg The Bull Luzinski Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Since this would be statutory rape, anybody know the statute of limitations on such a crime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 QUOTE (wallyburger @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 04:51 PM) I believe this makes Roger a pedophile. Hard to believe the NY Daily News would put their butt on the line if this wasn't true. Actually not by the APA definition. It would be molestation. For a diagnosis of pedophilia the person would fantasize about prepubescent children. Generally by the time they are teens, a pedophile would no longer be attracted to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosox41 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 12:09 AM) Wow. If this is true, it's amazing how stupid people can be. Fifteen? Roger denied it, so it has to be false Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Lopez's Ghost Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Today's NY Daily News quotes the girl as saying she cannot refute the allegations. Clemens hasn't been hit this hard since JD took him deep in the Fall Classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RME JICO Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 He is such an idiot. Any credibility he had before this incident is gone. Talk about losing cool points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:41 AM) Today's NY Daily News quotes the girl as saying she cannot refute the allegations. Clemens hasn't been hit this hard since JD took him deep in the Fall Classic. How do we nominate for quote of the month? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RME JICO Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 QUOTE (Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 05:10 PM) Since this would be statutory rape, anybody know the statute of limitations on such a crime? Here ya go: In Florida, where Clemens’ affair with McCready allegedly began 17 years ago, the age of consent is 16. However, the statute of limitations would have expired long ago. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Aok4...o&type=lgns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg The Bull Luzinski Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 QUOTE (RME JICO @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 11:07 AM) Here ya go: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Aok4...o&type=lgns Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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