Thanks, Boss

So, you would be among the best players who never won a Championship, if not for one team owner . . . and after you told that owner you were done with the game, taking a kustomized Hummer as a retirement gift, you played for someone else the following year anyway without so much as a "sorry"; now, with that team desperately in need of your particular talent, you would, naturally, show your gratitude by threatening to go sign with that team's rival.

Maybe "gratitude" isn't the word I am looking for . . . .

Maybe, it is "character" . . .

HOUSTON -- If Roger Clemens decides he does indeed want to pitch in 2007 and if he had to pick a team today, based on the requirements he has placed on the interested parties, he'd go to the Red Sox.

That's okay, I feel better booing the guy, anyway.