Houston, we have a problem.

It’s weird to think someone old enough to be my father is attempting to get back into professional sports.

It’s even weirder and, more to the point, frustrating, that it’s a man who has all but been convicted of cheating his opponents, his fans and the idealistic integrity of professional baseball.

Roger Clemens is attempting to make a comeback in baseball in a very Favre-esque situation, in what has been speculated as an attempt to reset his Hall of Fame eligibility clock to another five years.

Clemens threw three and a third innings for the Sugar Land Skeeters, striking out two, and reportedly reaching 88 mph with his fastball.

I have no issue with the age of the man. I support the Jamie Moyers of the world to the fullest. This is not an even remotely similar situation, however.

Clemens is grasping for any sort of validation he can reach in what would have been, without a doubt, a first ballot, hall of fame-worthy career.

Unfortunately for him, his numbers and character have been marred by the speculation of his performance enhancing drug usage.

The best thing you can do now, Roger, is to fade into baseball obscurity as another one of the many performers we loved to watch but now, in hindsight, judge to be horrible, awful people. At least you didn’t lose all your money like Curt Schilling. Take solace in that.

-Matt Hopkinson, Staff Writer