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You might have thought Roger Clemens would have done just about everything he could possibly do to destroy his reputation over the last few months. Showing up in the Mitchell Reporter, crashing and burning in his last start as a Yankee, looking like a fool in front of Congress. What could be worse than all that? Oh, we dunno ... how about ... starting a 10-year affair with a 15-year-old country music singer?
Heavens. Remember Mindy McCready? She's a country singer who sang "Guys Do It All the Time," which was apparently some sort of country hit. Anyway, she's had a ton of personal problems in the last few years; this photo was taken she was arrested after a fight with her mom. She had a OxyContin addiction, once stole a truck and forced the driver to act as a hostage and tried to kill herself at least twice. It's the type of thing that might result from starting to date Roger Clemens when you were 15.
The New York Daily News has Clemens' denial, but minces few words.
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.
Supposedly this will have something to do with Clemens' suit against his former trainer Brian McNamee ... but honestly, who cares? (Unless the continuance of the suit means more revelations like this.) Roger Clemens, then 28 and with the Red Sox, with 15-year-old country music singers. Yipes.
Man, Roger, continuing to come out of retirement, staying in the public eye, what a great idea, huh?
More on this today, surely.
Roger Clemens Had 10-year Fling With Country Star Mindy McCready [New York Daily News]
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Is that from the very special Mad About You when Paul Reiser got drunk and kicked the shit out of Helen Hunt?
Obviously, Clemens believes in the theory that if there's grass on the field, play ball.
Is she the one with the song about her truck or her dog?
Guess she finally bagged her a homer.
She's purty!
He's got friends in low places
Looks like she got her share of Clemens' brush back pitches.
Rich Gedman: To Catch a Predator
Roger should have explained to Mindy that you have to inject the steroids into your buttocks, not the side of your nose.
@Chamomiles Davis: +1 ice cold Fudd to you
"The source says that McCready was too young to be angered by the news that Clemens was taken."
That laides and gents, if I'm an athlete, is the kind of never say quit attitude I want in my mentally unstable groupies.
Mama don't let your babies grow up to blow Clemens.
I'm So Loathsome I Could Cry?
Damn, Mindy McCready's story is so sad, she's not even a hot mess.
I thought, upon reading the headline, that Hannah Montana had gotten herself into some more trouble.
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The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints would give a big thumbs-up if she'd start wearing bed sheets.
Judging by that photo, her next hit will be "Slump Buster"
That picture makes me reach for the flyswatter
having sex with 15 yr old white trash is frowned upon? because i gotta tell ya...
Gee, he says the relationship was "non-sexual". I bet they just liked to get together and sing old Willie Nelson songs. We should give Roger a pass here. Also, he might throw a piece of a bat at us if we don't.
I say, she's a modern day Evelyn Nesbit.
@cowbell204:
The florida legislature is working on a bill that would make it legal to open fire on any vehicle that has one of those highly annoying enormous New York Yankees stickers on the rear window. An additional provision of the bill legalizes using a bazooka on the offending vehicle if the driver is A) making "I'm more important than you" hand gestures while yakking on a cellphone, B) has an excessively groomed "we're better than the Mets" goatee, or C) has a ridiculously large gold chain that is high fashion in New York.
What happens when you play a country music record backwards?
You get your wife, dog and truck back.
Debbie Clemens is hotter.
@ltwinslow: wait,it was YOU who knocked up Jamie Lynn Spears?
Are we sure Jose Canseco didn't introduce the two lovebirds?
I don't know why this is viewed as such a surprise. McCreary had cleverly disguised references to this affair in the lyrics to her hit song, "I'm Fucking An Older Married Guy Who Pitches For The Boston Red Sox."
Andy Petite fucked an underage Filipino hooker - but it was only once - and only because his dad paid for her.
Did he buy he a cow? 'Cause if he had, he would have had an excuse for the Growth Hormones.
Gross! Country music?! bleaaghh
She spent last night in a ditch.
The NYDN has uncovered EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS of the two in bed together.
...she was arrested after a fight with her mom ... had a OxyContin addiction, once stole a truck and forced the driver to act as a hostage and tried to kill herself at least twice.
With all this material, how is she still not a country music star?
@ltwinslow: No, no, it's fine. It's just the whole "getting caught" aspect that's problematic.
The title of this post made me think it was written by Big Daddy Drew.
Clemens will now need 10,000 angels to take him away from this.
/sister has her album
At age 32 she defines the phrase "rode hard and put away wet".
A 15-year affair with a 10-year old would have been way worse.
I'm trying to mentally remove the nose scab, reverse-age her ten years...nope, still not seeing what Clemens fell for.
No, not now and definitely not before.
Kip Winger told Clemens to wait two years, but he didn't listen.
No
Mark Chmura would like to hang out with Mr. Clemens more often
Luis Polonia is now a country music fan
@VTBen: Me too.
@Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!: Are you sure it wasn't The Stray Cats?
Will McDonough just rose from the grave, had a hearty laugh and then kicked Clemens in the nuts.
"Whatever y'all, it's not like she was his cousin!"
-Jerry Lee Lewis
@Stay Away From Oprah: Yeah, your "sister" has that album and I don't own any Fine Young Cannibals cd's either.
Come on, Rocket, you know the rules. 15 will get you 20.
But Jose Canseco said that Clemens has always been faithful to his wife. Thanks for completely ruining Jose's credibility.
At least he didn't get caught masturbating in a library.
In Roger's defense, his mental maturity is that of a 15 year old.
Ha ha, what a pervert!
/finishes masturbating to topless photos of Miley Cyrus
This is our country
Well, Mr. Burns had done it.
The power plant had won it.
With Roger Clemens fucking 15 year olds all the while.
@LeNoceur: Look at the pictures of her from '97, no chance in hell you would've said no.