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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
As the Redsox Turn
Turning back the clock.
As for Clemens, McNamara says on the show that, after the last out of the bottom of the seventh, Clemens told him as he came off the mound, ‘‘That’s all I can pitch.’’ McNamara said there was never a blister on Clemens’ middle finger, only the start of a paper cut.
Clemens has consistently denied asking out of the game, and he does so again on Wednesday’s show. McNamara was emphatic in his TV interview, saying, ‘‘I don’t lie.’’
Clemens was a workhorse. If that’s all he had left, and he says it, then this is a GOOD thing. So, a guy gave it all he could, tells you that he left it all out there, and… that’s a problem? I wish all players were like this.
I remember Gretzky talking about when the Oilers lost to the Islanders in the Cup finals (Islanders won their 4th straight Cup, and the Oilers were going to win their first Cup the next year). Gretzky, Mess, and a couple of other guys went to the Islanders locker room after the game to congratulate them.
They couldn’t believe what they saw: virtually every player bandaged up, clear that they could not play another game. Gretzky turned to his buddies and said that he could still play several more games, no problem, and his teammates concurred. They knew right then that at some point, they need to play on their reserves.
So, that’s what Clemens did, he played on his reserves until he had nothing left in his tank.
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