The Clemens drama continues.....

Another conspiracy theory. I am not sure if Roger Clemens is smart enough to think this far ahead, but do you think that the reason that he changed his tune from I have never been injected by Brian McNamee to I have never been injected with anything except B12 and lidocaine by Brian McNamee was so that if McNamee produced syringes he could claim that he had no idea that what he was being injected with was steroids? It seems like that might be where this is headed. I am hearing today that McNamee has handed over syringes and bloody gauze with Clemens’ DNA on them. When the lab rats test what is inside of the syringes they will likely find steroids. So how this is likely to play out would be Clemens would then say he thought that it was vitamins and pain killers that were in the shots, and McNamee was injecting him with steroids without his knowledge.

When asked why McNamee would do this, he could then say that he was training Clemens, and if Clemens was getting stronger and performing well he might think that it was due to how good a trainer McNamee was.

I think that this is all a bunch of crap and that Clemens and McNamee were on the same page all along. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the way things go in the coming weeks.

Johan Santana

I am quite relieved that Johan Santana went to the Mets and not the Sox. I would have liked to see him land on the other side of NY, but if that wasn't to be, then at least he isn't in the AL East. I think that he would have put the Sox in dynasty mode if he went there. Especially for what they were offering. In fact, I think that the new Twins GM blew this one bigtime. Both of the Sox offers and the Yankee offer were better than the one that they actually accepted in the end. In fact, I think that the Mets offer was even better earlier in the off season then it was last week. With the fact that Peter Angelos won't allow Bedard to be traded to an AL East team, it looks like the Yanks are probably done with their big moves. I see that they signed Morgan Ensberg to a minor league contract. He might factor in at 1B from time to time, but that isn't a big move.

My next consideration is what to do to improve that bullpen. If they can't make any moves to bolster the pen, I don't see how they get around putting Joba back into that role from last year. Hopefully Ohlendorf can be the 7th inning guy, and then Farnsworth, Hawkins et al can be the middle relief corp. If they don't make that move and those middle relievers have to be setup men, I think that the Yanks are in trouble.

If Joba is in the pen, that leaves a servicable rotation of Wang, Pettitte, Hughes, Kennedy and Mussina. But there still is no ace among them. Pitchers and Cathers don't report for another couple of weeks so I won't go off quite yet, but I will just say that I am concerned.