Sometime last year, Roger Clemens made his annual mid-season return to baseball. It turns out that sucking at pitching for a pro-rated $28 million contract is a hell of a lot more fun than sucking at golf for free. A Yankees game was stopped to announce the signing, as dramatically heard here. SportsCenter ran a 90 minute special discussing the impact of a fat, washed up, steroid abuser on the pennant race. It turns out that when Clemens was 30 pounds lighter and injecting steroids into his eyeballs between pitches, he still couldn't beat Josh Beckett. The end result for the Yankees was...negligible.
Last night, after one practice and one morning skate, Peter Forsberg returned to the Colorado Avalanche. There was much rejoicing in Colorado, but no orgasmic deification of his appearance. Originally intended to skate limited ice time as he worked back into shape, Forsberg looked so good and so comfortable with his old running mate Joe Sakic he earned nearly 20 minutes on the ice. Perhaps following his unsuccessful run in Philadelphia and a first round playoff flame out in Nashville last season Forsberg no longer has the cache he once possessed as the NHL's MVP back in the 2002-03 season. Still, it would have been nice had SportsCenter dedicated more than the quick 5 second slot before revealing the nightly poll results to the return of Peter the Great.
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