Roger “Rocket” Clemens is the first inductee into my Hall of Shame. He earned this dubious distinction by being quite the knucklehead. The Rocket earns a Shame-O-Meter Rating of 10 (based on a 1-to-10 rating). The Red Sox have a knack for not signing players to extensions when they feel they’re abilities are on the decline. After four average years with the Sox, Rocket signed a two year deal with the Toronto Blue Jays. He miraculously won the Cy Young Award two straight years! As per the Mitchell Report Toronto’s “strength coach” at the time was a man named Brian McNamee, who injected Clemens in the buttocks approximately four times. Nice! Rocket was on a new high powered jet fuel. I attended Red Sox games in the mid 90s while traveling to Boston on business. Back then you could walk up to the window and get a ticket the day of the game. I attended a game with my coworker who’s a HUGE Red Sox fan, true Boston Southie. The Rocket was pitching out of a jam with two runners on in scoring position around the 6th inning. The crowd’s chanting “ROOOOCKET, ROOOOCKET”. I told my friend the only rocket will be off the Green Monster. Sure enough after 4 more foul balls, BAM, the ball’s rocketed to the left side off the Green Monster! Both runs score, they take out Rocket, boos from the crowd. He took his glove off on the way to the dugout and gave the crowd the finger. Nice! Fast forward to the Yankee Years. The Yanks hired McNamee and the rest is history. The Bat Throwing Incident in the 2000 World Series tops it all. He threw the top of Mike Piazza’s bat at him after Rocket thought it was the ball! Yeah sure, what a dope. 
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