<![CDATA[Gawker: Roger Clemens]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Roger Clemens]]> http://gawker.com/tag/roger clemens http://gawker.com/tag/roger clemens <![CDATA[ Roger Clemens Can't Stop With The Cheating ]]> clemens3.jpegGeez Roger Clemens, do you mind if we go a single day without being bombarded by news of yet another one of your past trysts with a Southern blond woman somehow vaguely connected to pop culture? Monday we learned that scowling baseball great Clemens, self-proclaimed paragon of family virtue, cheated on his wife with a continuously intoxicated country music star. More girlfriends came out in the subsequent days. And now we're battered with the news that the rich pitcher may have had a romance with the ex-wife of a fat, drunk professional golfer [NYDN]. Is nothing sacred?

The newest name on Clemens "How to Creep" list is Paulette Dean Daly, the former wife of professional golfer John Daly. Since John Daly looks like this:

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You can see how even Clemens may have looked good to his paramour. The Daily News reports:

"Clemens' relationship with Daly is said to have come after the end of her marriage to the hard-driving golfer. That was on the heels of a grim incident at the 1997 Players Championship, where the golfer was taken to a hospital with alcohol poisoning...

Daly is still involved with the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic as an organizer of famously lavish parties there."

News reports have described Clemens as being in attendance as recently as two years ago, dancing around the party with an 8-foot-long boa constrictor around his neck.

She doesn't deny it so it must be true!

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Gawker-386046 Thu, 01 May 2008 09:25:36 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=386046&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Roger Clemens: Baseball's Eliot Spitzer ]]> clemens2.jpegHere on day two of the Roger Clemens Infidelity Scandal And Schadenfreude Festival Of '08, it's becoming more clear that the brawny former Yankees ace pitcher and full time jerk did in fact cheat on his wife with the wild country singer Mindy McCready. Because now she's admitted it! McCready said the two did have an ongoing affair, although the sex didn't start until she was of legal age. They first met when she was only 15, (Miley Cyrus joke). But the most entertaining aspect of this scandal is how Clemens—heroic, honored, self-righteous, dismissive of critics, a King of New York—is turning into an uncanny baseball version of another recently fallen hero: Eliot Spitzer.

Spitzer, New York's Love Guv, and Clemens both had reputations as brawlers, who made tons of enemies on their way to the top. The people on their side loved them, but outside of their own teams they were widely despised. Clemens wisely spent his career in the American League, where designated hitters could take his turn at bat so he wouldn't have to risk getting beaned in retaliation for his frequent knockdowns of opposing batters.

Furthermore, both men suffered from huge bouts of hypocrisy. Spitzer prosecuted prostitution rings while patronizing them at the same time. Clemens was always boasting of his hard work, diet, and exercise program, while (IN ALL LIKELIHOOD) being shot up with steroids by his trainer. When his trainer finally told the story, Clemens continued to deny everything, which he does to this day, even as most of the other players named have implicitly or explicitly admitted when the steroid allegations against them were true. And, he filed a defamation suit against the trainer, which brought Clemens' entire reputation under legal review. The Post reports today that the pitcher had at least two other women on the side in addition to McCready, so take your sanctimonious family man act and inject it into your buttocks along with lots of testosterone, Roger Clemens.

An added bonus: like the lawyers who roped their careers to Spitzer's only to see them crumble along with him, Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, is going to come out of this looking like a bald-faced liar, like his client. Just yesterday he said there was no sex between Clemens and McCready; today, she's admitting it all over the place.

Spitzer was at least fighting on the side of righteousness. For Clemens, that was only true if he was pitching for your team. Among those enjoying Clemens' downfall the most: this young man:

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Gawker-385125 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:42:50 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=385125&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Baseball's Meanest Star In Alleged Affair With Country Version Of Amy Winehouse ]]> clemens.jpegRoger Clemens, the recently retired former Yankees ace pitcher and full time Class A jerk, has used his commitment to his wife (pictured) and family as a defense of his own character, which has been impugned by steroid allegations. And, you know, by his own general asshole demeanor that causes him to do things like throw a fastball at his own son. But today the Daily News says that Clemens carried on a ten year affair with train wreck country singer Mindy McCready—although they never trot out any real proof. And their lead, which seems to imply Clemens is a statutory rapist, is a little problematic:

Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.

But by "began," the paper apparently means when they met, when McCready was performing in a Florida bar during spring training. One anonymous source calls it "love at first sight," but there's no mention of any proof that they had sex (and Clemens' lawyer denies it. Which means nothing). This part is pretty suggestive, though:

During another Big Apple excursion, the two holed up in the trendy SoHo Grand and later partied with Monica Lewinsky and Michael Jordan. McCready, according to a source, even bummed a cigar off His Airness to give to Clemens. There were personal love missives to Clemens hidden in McCready's album liner notes.

So who is Mindy McCready? Apparently she's the Amy Winehouse of country music! She has a huge arrest record, including prescription fraud and "a near overdose while pregnant." Here's her mug shot [via TMZ] from a 2007 DUI:

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Her debut album in 1996 went multi-platinum, but it's been all downhill for her since then. And, she was "briefly engaged" to actor Dean Cain! Let's hope the drugs and alcohol didn't influence her decision to hang out with Clemens, who, I must remind you, is a grade A asshole. Here's a McCready music video of her biggest hit from happier days:



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Gawker-384626 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:10:26 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=384626&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Karl Rove Portends a Roger Clemens Pardon ]]> rovegq.jpgGQ interviews beloved and chatty former Bush adviser Karl Rove. Q: "Wait, quickly: Do you believe Roger Clemens?" A: "Um, yes, I do." Ok! Rove also repeatedly asks to go off the record whenever he wants to deliver a POTENTIALLY CONTROVERSIAL opinion, because he, as a true friend of The Free Press, loves nothing more than disseminating his manipulative bullshit via anonymous quotes and suggestions in millions of news stories. On the record, he's just a bit of a testy dork. Off the record he'll tell you what an anonymous Republican operative really thinks of Barack Obama! [GQ]

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Gawker-375373 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:59:31 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=375373&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Politician Disappointed The Media Is Covering Huge Story ]]> Congressman Dan Burton today, at the vitally important Congressional hearings on Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens' alleged steroid use, was all, "Damn this trial-by-media thing is so messed up, innocent until proven guilty, everybody point your camera at me as I drone on about the outrageous media circus here." Click to watch the video, in which he comes off entirely like a greasy small-town lawyer who just landed a big case and is trying to act like everything is normal. But our question is, what's up with his teeth? The top row just looks like a porcelain mouthguard in there.

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Gawker-356042 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:39:06 EST Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356042&view=rss&microfeed=true