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We have not seen the last of the raging Roger Clemens/Mindy McCready flame.

The 32-year-old country singer was released from jail on Halloween, and now she's talking to Inside Edition about how bad she feels for Rocket's wife, Debbie. You know, not for her husband force-feeding her HGH ... just for the infidelity and all that insignificant junk.

McCready regrets any hurt inflicted on Debbie Clemens, the pitcher's wife."I have nothing but remorse and nothing but sympathy for what she's had to go through with this situation, and she has my utmost apology," she told "Inside Edition."

I wonder if McCready feels bad about what she's been put through by the Rocket? They began a relationship when she was 16 -- not 15, people, get it right! -- had an affair for a decade, and then she was left to fend for herself. Now she's serving jail time stemming from drug charges in '04. She sounds pretty stable, right?

"There aren't words to describe how painful it's been," she told "Inside Edition." "So painful, I haven't wanted to live. ... I've lived recklessly. I've made a lot of mistakes."

Because I know you've been on the edge of your seat waiting for the latest Roger Clemens/Mindy McCready news, here it is: the Ft. Myers News-Press reports that McCready's former roommate, Jennifer Sirbaugh, swears that McCready was 17 when she first met Clemens, not 15 as originally reported, and that she was with McCready when they first met Clemens in 1993:

"I remember Roger arriving on a boat with some teammates,'' Sirbaugh says. "I found him to be extremely arrogant and insufferable, but Mindy was taken with him.''

McCready allegedly went back to Clemens' hotel room later that night and didn't return to the apartment she shared with Sirbaugh until the next morning:

"She arrived home mid-morning claiming they had not had sex,'' Sirbaugh says, "but that Clemens had left a $100 bill on a bedside table for her, presumably to get a cab home.''

What a sweet guy -- nothing says class like money on the nightstand. As Brooks points out, I'm not sure if the "17 vs 15 argument" really matters -- it's still inappropriate to spend the night with a minor, right? I guess at the very least he's no Karl Malone. And now back to your hopefully more relevant sports news ... (via BallHype)

At this point, Roger Clemens is a beaten man. Whoever, or whatever, leaked the recent stories about his adultery -- not least of which, the one about his relationship with the then-15-year-old Mindy McCready -- Clemens is, as my father might say, licked. Done. Finito. His reputation will never be the same, ever, and he'd do best to move on with his life secure in the knowledge that he's no longer the most popular jock in the school. Save any further embarassment to himself and to his family.

Alas, he hasn't quite come to grips yet:

They considered premature, at best, speculation that the former star pitcher is ready to drop his defamation lawsuit against his former trainer.

"Absolutely, there's been no action taken to dismiss his lawsuit," Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said via phone from Las Vegas.

"First of all, I'm highly skeptical that Rusty and Roger will be smart enough to drop the suit, because they have not been smart enough to realize that was the best course," McNamee's lawyer, Richard Emery, said via phone from New York. "So I don't know why all of a sudden they would do what's best for themselves."

Is it just me, or are McNamee's lawyers the ones with bluster to spare these days. Those are the taunts of the victor. In the meantime, Rusty Hardin is sending meek little missives from Las Vegas, where presumably he and Roger are scouting up-and-coming talent for their country music label.

In tonight's second Dugout, Kyle Farnsworth breaks up with his wife after she finds out he's been secretly sleeping with Trisha Yearwood. No, wait, Dontrelle Willis finds out that the Oakridge Boys have traded away Duane Allen and equates it similarly to trading ones own brain. No, wait, Dmitri Young chokes the hell out of Tammy Wynette.

Or, this. After the jump.

The early front-runner for the award for who's having the worst 2008 has to be Debbie Clemens. The day before Valentine's Day her husband feted her by throwing her under the bus as a HGH user in front of a congressional hearing. Now, just before Mother's Day she gets to have her husband's predilection for other women splashed on newspaper pages for all the world to see.

On the heels of Mindy McCready's admission of a long-term affair with Roger Clemens, the New York Daily News is reporting she was just one of several women the Rocket befriended throughout his baseball career.

Roger Clemens hung out with several attractive women in his baseball career, including beauties in California and Boston and a former Manhattan bartender named Angela Moyer.

Clemens, 45, flew the women around the country on his private jet and bought expensive jewelry for at least one of them, a source told the Daily News Tuesday.

Either Clemens was having an awful lot of fun outside his marriage or, as Mike Lupica writes in the same newspaper, he was running a "mentoring program he started up in karaoke bars for promising teenage singers." That's possible, I suppose, but it seems an odd sideline for a pro pitcher, especially one that's held himself up as a paragon of virtue unfairly smeared by an ever-growing number of people.

With the absurdity of the whole Roger Clemens/Mindy McCready story breaking yesterday, you knew it was only a matter of time before the internets blew up with parody videos mocking the entire thing, and now I'd like to present you with the first one I've found.

It's from Ryan Parker, and it's sung to the tune of the incredibly poignant McCready song "Guys Do It All The Time." (kinda sorta NSFW depending on how your job views anatomical charts)

More videos from the "ryanparkersongs's channel" channel at Heavy.com

Yeah, not this guy. Maybe Lackey. (Just kidding!)

(Via Bugs & Cranks)

Yesterday's news about Roger Clemens' alleged affair with musician Mindy McCready (I never heard of her before yesterday, so I refuse to call her a "star") was so far out of left field that absolutely nobody could have expected it. Was it too strange to be true? Was a Cy Young pitcher really lovestruck by a 15-year-old girl he met in a karaoke bar?

Clemens lawyer Rusty Hardin came out swinging with a strong denial, telling the Houston Chronicle:

"There's no question in my mind that this is a really filthy smear campaign orchestrated by [Brian] McNamee's lawyers clearly intended to do anything they can to ruin Roger's reputation. ... I'll let Roger speak for himself on the matter, but it is clear that the Daily News throughout this entire episode has been the house mouthpiece for McNamee's lawyers, and this is just one more example."

Um, Rusty, perhaps you should have talked to your client. While Clemens has yet to officially address the issue, McCready did, admitting it was all true.

The above photo may or may not be worse than statutory rape.

It's not easy to take a contrarian stance. That is, it's easy to seek one out, but extremely difficult to execute properly. If you do pull it off, +1,000 points to you, good sir. If you fail, you look ten times worse for the effort.

So it is with great sadness that the honorable rubes of FanHouse -- actually, just me -- inform dear Wallace Matthews that the whole defending statutory rape thing is one of those contrarian arguments best left unargued:

I am going to suspend disbelief for a brief moment and pretend that Roger Clemens and Mindy McCready did not have any sort of sexual relationship in the 10 years that they knew each other, when Rocket was allegedly sending her cash and taking her to parties with a slew of 90's related celebrities.

We are, after all, the land of Innocent Until Proven Guilty in America. But even if that is true -- and I have a difficult time believing it because of the conflicting nature of the relationships here -- what business does Roger Clemens have by being "just friends" with a 15-year-old girl anyway?

Nothing like a slew of spicy allegations to really rev up the Monday morning, especially when they pertain to Roger Clemens. We've got everything from envelopes of cash to partying with Monica Lewinsky. But how do these allegations sort out in the sordid spectrum of celebrity society? Ranking the Rank finds out.

5. FedEx envelopes full of cash -- Nothing really illegal about this one, although the immoral factor is pretty high if the money is being shipped to a mistress - celebrity type. Still, Rocket. You're ridiculously rich, man. Hire a real courier. Or write a check. It's just as traceable as that FedEx insurance slip you're filling out while shipping American currency.

4. Trips to Las Vegas -- Sure, what happens there stays there, but how cliche can you be? Take the alleged mistress to Vegas? Meh. Not to mention, every dood knows that you don't trot your celebrity lady-friend out in the public like that; you gotta use the private jet and roll to some secluded island.

2. Partying with Monica Lewinsky -- One would assume that these "sources" are gonna drop the biggest names possible ... and that's the best you can do, Rog? Come on. You [allegedly without cheating] won a slew of Cy Youngs. Sure, you don't have a no-hitter, but you can still pull bigger celebrity than her, right?

2. Losing your lady friend to Dean Cain -- Sure, Cain played Superman, but that doesn't excuse getting beat out by the guy. You talk about mid-90's D-list celebrities, well, this guy is definition "wheelhouse". Rocket's inability to pull Teri Hatcher on a spite move (no word yet on whether he actually tried or not) doesn't help his status either.

1. 15 Year Old Mistress -- Yeaaaah. There's nothing remotely appropriate about that.