Clemens signs (rumor)

[Sammy Sofa]

Clemens has a "legandary workout system" (ie similar intensity that Walter Payton had)

 

Unless it focuses solely on making his ass freakishly large, I remain skeptical.

[ManCrushOnNomar]

Can we put a maybe in the thread title since it's not a done deal?

[Jimy is a misspell]

May 31, 2006, 9:55AM

Astros seal deal with Clemens

 

By JOSE DE JESUS ORTIZ

Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

ST. LOUIS - Roger Clemens and the Astros have officially reached an agreement, according to a person in the negotiations who told the Chronicle. A press conference will be announced shortly.

Clemens, whose 341 career victories are more than any person alive, went 18-4 with a 2.98 ERA in 2004 while winning the National League Cy Young Award, extending his record Cy Young collection to seven.

After helping the Astros to the National League Championship Series in 2004, he was 13-8 with a major-league best 1.87 ERA last season while helping the Astros reach the franchise’s first World Series. Although Clemens flirted with Boston and the Rangers, his former Astros teammates laughed and cautioned that he’d return to Houston.

Clemens’ signing should bolster the club.

“It will add a boost to the team,” ace Roy Oswalt said. “Any time you get a guy like that in the rotation, it would be great.

"We have to have a spark, and hopefully he will give it to us.”

Catcher Brad Ausmus was pleased.

“I think it’s a huge boost to our pitching staff,” Ausmus said. “Why? That’s a stupid question. He’s a horse. He’s probably the best pitcher in the history of the game. He’s the type of guy that for a full season you can count on for 200 innings.

Astros owner Drayton McLane negotiated deep into Tuesday night with Roger Clemens’ agents, and he headed to Houston early Wednesday morning.

“We worked on it last night, so that’s why I’m going to Houston right now,” McLane said as he boarded his private airplane in Temple. “We’ve worked to try to get this thing done.”

McLane has been optimistic for weeks, and he has made definite progress with Clemens’ agents, Randy and Alan Hendricks.

[Wild_Cubs04]

I hope he just gets shelled start after start.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I hope he just gets shelled start after start.

 

I hope he does well enough that the Astros sit idly by and watch free agency go by again in anticipation of re-signing him and "improve" their team by adding more people like Preston Wilson. Then, he can stay retired for good.

[RynoRules]

ESPN.com says its a done deal:

 

 

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2464315