Art Martone's column about Roger Clemens was the most ridiculous thing I've read in a newspaper all year. If you did your homework, you would've known that Clemens has been consistent all season. He has allowed more than four earned runs just five times in 22 starts and hasn't allowed more than five earned runs once this season. He has pitched less than six innings just three times all season - once on three days rest in Detroit. His only loss of the season came against Seattle -- the best team in baseball . . . The problem is disgruntled Red Sox fans like Martone who choose to pick apart what Clemens has done in order to justify the fact that he no longer pitches for Boston. If Clemens were still pitching for the Red Sox, your columnists would be writing about what a wonderful story it is to see a potential Cy Young winner in Boston at the age of 39. Clemens, however, is a Yankee, so Martone feels the need to call upon some obscure statistic like support-neutral wins above replacement level to prove his point. This statistic is a joke. It fails to take intangibles into consideration. It's a shame that some statistic-loving nerd like Michael Wolverton would even pass this off as a valid measurement of pitching performance. Clemens' real numbers -- the ones that the rest of Major League Baseball live by -- are the true indication of how well he's pitched this season, not this flawed system conjured up by Wolverton. Martone's column is a classic case of bias reporting that leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Instead of giving credit where credit is due, he chose to pick apart a player because he wears pinstripes. Clemens left Boston five years ago. Move on.

If you want to try to make Clemens look bad that's fine, but come on, Art, come up with something better than a run-support argument. How about writing that he latched on to the Yankees at the end of his career just to win a ring or two. That would make him look bad, but I'm sure you wrote about that already. I can't believe this is the best you could come up with . . . The next time jealousy or frustration gets the best of you (it will at least two more times, when they win the World Series and when he picks up his sixth Cy Young), e-mail me and I'll try to come up with a quality argument for you.

Nice Clemens-hater article from someone who has obviously not watched him pitch this year. I would venture to say that you have seen Mr. Clemens pitch one or two times this year. Because if you had, you would realize how foolish your story and statistics really are. As someone who has seen Rocket Roger pitch in at least 90% of his starts this season, I will tell you this little-known fact: The majority of the runs scored in games the Rocket has started have come near the tail end of the game when the Yankees are beating up on subpar middle men. In fact, the majority of his starts have been tight ballgames until the middle innings, yet your statistics don't show that. That is why stats don't give you a feel for the game and can be misleading, and you obviously have been misled . . . Finally, I will let you in on a little-known fact about Pedro that sheep in the media like yourself will be hearing shortly. When Pedro was about to be traded from the Expos, the Yankees made an extensive investigation into him, and their recommendation to Steinbrenner read like this: "He will be the best pitcher in baseball for the span of about four years and then his arm will blowout, and that is the risk." What is happening now is exactly what the Yankees internal organizational reports projected. They simply concluded that his arm and body structure could not handle the velocity at which he threw without a major blowout at some point before minor nagging setbacks. That is why the Yankees privately had a good laugh when Boston gave him a seven-year contract. Guys like Kevin Brown aren't even durable for seven years. Very dumb. But that is why they are the Red Sox, and like Clemens says, "why the Yankees are the Yankees." NY Going for 5 out of 6! Boston going for 1 out of 82? LOL