Clemens Heartbroken By Video Snub

From the NY Post:

Estranged former Yankee Roger Clemens was "heartbroken" when his former team left him out of Sunday night's Stadium-farewell festivities, which included a video montage honoring the Bronx Bombers' greatest pitchers - but not him, a relative told The Post yesterday.

Clemens was sitting at home in hurricane-ravaged Texas, in front of a battery-operated television on his living room couch, when the team delivered a final crushing blow to its former star.

Clutching wife Debbie's hand on one side and mother-in-law Jan Wild's on the other, Clemens tuned in to his final team's last home game hoping for some recognition for helping win two World Series titles, Wild said.

But that Rocket never launched.

When the team played the video celebrating its greatest players at every position, the steroid-scandal-scarred Clemens was nowhere to be seen.

"Debbie and I held his hand while we watched the game, and he was heartbroken," said Wild, 70. "Not mad. He still loves baseball and the Yankees, but it was sad what they did to him."

Part of me thinks he got what he deserved. Not only did he cheat, but he turned the whole thing into a bigger circus than it already was, and made himself look like a fool with his constant denials.

But with that said, I also feel bad for him. He was always very proud to be a Yankee, and from everything I've heard or read, he loved wearing the pinstripes. So it must have been very hard for him to sit there and watch those ceremonies, especially with other guys who were listed in the Mitchell Report like Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi, and Chuck Knoblauch being part of the ceremony.

However, if Clemens was mentioned he most certainly would have been booed, and that probably would have hurt Clemens even more. So maybe the Yankees decision to not mention him was the right thing to do.