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Roger Clemens' agent Randy Hendricks quickly shot down any chance of the free agent pitcher signing with the St. Louis Cardinals should the Rocket consider playing for any team other than Boston, New York Yankees or the Houston Astros.

"Let me repeat," Hendricks said. "Houston, Boston, New York. Only three teams will be picked from if he plays. And he hasn't decided."

Hendricks' comments were in response to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, which revealed that Cardinals GM Walt Jocketty expressed interest in Clemens.

"I guess you would always have interest in a guy like that," Jocketty told the Post-Dispatch. "He's someone we've expressed interest in before. I'm not sure it would be mutual, though. There are so many factors involved it would be pretty tough to do any deal with them. You never know."

Hendricks, however, does know. And while he heaped praise upon the Cardinals organization, he said emphatically that "if [Clemens] plays this year and he plays in the National League, it'll be for the Houston Astros."

Clemens was more vague with his response, having not heard the reports out of St. Louis until he was approached by reporters at camp on Wednesday.

"I'm not any further any along deciding as far as playing at this point," Clemens said. "Everything I said the other day still holds true. I don't know what tomorrow's going to bring, let alone next week. I'll wait and see how I feel.

MLB.com

1 Comments

Joe Kessler said:

Enough Clemens already ... he's one of those Retired - out of retirement - retired players that can't live outside the limelight. He can't just end his "Hall of Fame" career and walk away - he needs to feed his ego daily by making himself the center of the baseball universe via the media. I just hope that when the media finally get sick of his story and stops inflating his ego that Roger can find some help somewhere to fill the void of being in the spotlight or he'll have a very difficult life.

Link | March 1, 2007 4:10 AM
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