If you thought Roger Clemens would have to be bananas to come out of retirement, you were right!
The former Yankees great, who has seven Cy Young Awards in his trophy case, appeared with the Savannah Bananas in front of a sellout crowd at Minute Maid Park in Houston on Saturday night.
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The Bananas are the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball — showman who play the game (kind of), but sing and dance and use a man on stilts to play first base, among other things. Bananas baseball is baseball without any of the boring parts.
Clemens, kept from the Hall of Fame because of suspected steroid use, said recently that he doesn’t even pay attention to the voting anymore.
“I don’t even know what today is,” Clemens told the “Foul Territory” podcast panel in January — on the day the newest members would be announced. “I don’t pay attention to it. So I didn’t catch what you were guys were leading into. Is today the day they vote on guys or guys get in, or what’s the deal today?”
The “Foul Territory” group — composed of host Scott Braun and former players Todd Frazier and A.J. Pierzynski — was debating the ballot and potential class before introducing Clemens, who said he never paid attention to his numbers when he pitched for 24 seasons, including six with the Yankees.
“First of all, if I knew it was Hall of Fame day, I probably wouldn’t have come on with ya’ll,” Clemens said. “It tells you how much I pay attention to it. So it was in our rear-view mirror 10 years ago.”
Clemens put together a Hall of Fame-worthy resume — 354-184 record, 3.12 ERA, 4,672 strikeouts in 4,916 2/3 regular-season innings, plus two World Series (with the Yankees) — but his career in the eyes of voters has been tarnished because he was included on the Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens’ former trainer Brian McNamee claimed he injected the former ace with steroids. Clemens never tested…
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