Samuel and Roger Clemens

Mark Twain was a man whose destiny brought him from the Midwest to a fame he could never have imagined growing up as a writer. What he envisioned was a society full of realistic dreams, goals and expectations. In one of his most famous novels...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the description of people is quite straight forward because it's what's expected from people living near the Mississippi River, in Missouri, at the time. Defiant racism and entrenched attitudes were prevalent; I would love to take a closer approach at the latter (because five states including Mississippi have banned slavery entirely and in sports the latter is more relevant in finding news).

When defining attitude, I mean the way people show themselves out to be. Each region should have a distinguishing feature about it that allows people to associate to his or her different environment...wherever he or she may go. Eventually, Huckleberry Finn joins the Grangerford family (a rival of the Sheperdsons). After a member of each of the rival families elopes, fighting ensues and there are only two survivors (similar to when many baseball players have been deemed guilty during the Mitchell investigation and Clemens was not named by Jason Grimsley)

There is still one person who remains partly blemished, like Huckleberry Finn, who has an opportunity to clear his name entirely in the public eye; Mr. "Rocket" Roger Clemens. He took that chance to deny using steroids on 60 Minutes and filed a lawsuit to at least show some interest on maintaining innocence.

Clemens began his career in the spotlight and may end it that way. The native of Houston won the College World Series for the University of Texas. Two seasons after his major league debut, he led the Red Sox to a world series birth...losing to the Mets in seven games. It was clear that year, he would be one of the great ones as he went 24-4 with a 2.48 ERA. His first world series ring was with the Yankees in 2000

This was just the summation of his career. If he was not injected with extra testosterone, everybody would consider him one of the most dominant pitchers of all-time. The flame-thrower is second in strikeouts with 4672...8th in wins with 354...amassing a 3.12 ERA and tied for 26th in shutouts with 46.

It's still odd that Brian McNamee, former trainer for the New York Mets and Yankees, listed Raja as one of the culpraits in the steroid investigation...claiming to have personally injected the future hall-of-famer with testosterone. The indication by Clemens was that the shots taken were of B-12 and lidocaine.

Whether he is guilty or not, Clemens' original attitude shows how futile the excuses are becoming because the public is sick and tired of all the potential cheaters and steroid allegations made against Major League players; the fans are accustomed to hearing a new name every day and people flock to the parks because the individuals want to see home runs. By the way, if McNamee gave many of the Yankees and Mets names up, where are other personal trainers from clubhouses who might know something?

According to McNamee's testimony, the personal trainer didn't want to give Clemens to Mitchell until Brian's hand was forced on whether to spend time in prison.

Either way, Clemens' lawyers are suing McNamee for defamation of character and indescribable humiliation in what he alleges to be an assassination of his pitching resume and his public image. According to ESPN, a countersuit will most likely be filed to show how Clemens destroyed the life of McNamee.

All in all, Clemens is playing every appropriate hand to suggest to the public he is innocent; however, if other trainers step up and try to eliminate steroid use, Clemens' career could be tainted for the good of Major League Baseball. All we know is what's being reported; but if Clemens was injected, he probably won't make the Hall-of-fame for a long time.