Roger Clemens reportedly claims in his 60 minutes interview that he was injected with Lidocaine and vitamin B12, not steroids and HGH. According to ESPN, Clemens tells the interviewer:
“Lidocaine and [vitamin] B-12. It’s for my joints, and B-12 I still take today,”
However, in Clemens’ previous video denial he stated:
“Let me be clear, the answer is [...]

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The Hot Stove is smoking but we’re unlinkely to see any real flames until next week’s Winter Meetings in Nashville. With a shallow free-agent pool,  teams will have to resort to old-fashioned wheeling and dealing.
The focus of most attention is, of course, Johan Santana who Minnesota has on the block. The Twinkies are hoping that [...]

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The Frontier League Washington (PA) Wild Things are the first pro team to offer Barry Bonds a contract since he became a free agent. Among the incentives:
In addition, Bonds’ contract offer includes other considerations including a single king-sized room when the team is on road; 50% of all net proceeds of individual Barry Bonds/Wild Things [...]

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With the New York media reporting that agent Scott Boras told the Yankees the opening bid for A-Rod’s services was $350 million, I couldn’t help wondering what you could buy for that kind of money. Even in the inflated world of baseball, it turns out to be a lot. Here, based upon 2007 opening day [...]

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Baseball may finally have a solution for how to deal with the Barry Bonds steroid issue. According to the SF Chronicle, Barry will boycott the Hall of Fame (assuming he gets voted in) if #756 goes in with an asterisk. Seems like the simple solution for the HOF is to accept the ball, asterisk and all, and then - if the sports writers vote him in - hope Barry lives up to his word.

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