Clemens: Blame Clemens

Clemens, in the midst of denying PEDs, also is denying an affair with a country singer. His trainer says he's lying about the PEDs, and the singer says:

“I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready said regarding the paper's anonymously sourced report about their "love at first sight" meeting at a Florida bar when she was 15—and the then-28-year-old athlete, who at the time was pitching for the Boston Red Sox, was already a married father of two.

She accompanied Clemens to his hotel room that night, the 32-year-old songstress said, but the affair did not turn intimate until she moved to Nashville to pursue her career when she was 18.”

This does not bode well for Clemens' veracity. You could say McCready is just bitter or jealous. But she doesn't sound bitter. And why would she still be jealous some 17 years after their first meeting.

Cheating is no big shocker. I wonder how many baseball players cheat on their wives and families, being on the road all the time, surrounded by testosterone, and quite noticeable and attractive to women. A lot.

Most damning though: She's 15 years old, and he takes her to his hotel room? She says they weren’t “intimate” until 3 years later, but nobody with even the slightest understanding of human sexual behavior is going to believe that they waited three years. Not when it was "love at first sight" and they are already in his room. A year, maybe I'll buy. Three? No way.

Not only have Bonds and Clemens jeopardized their status in the Hall of Fame, they may be wearing stripes. Charlie Hustle is starting to look a lot Rose-ier.