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FatPitchersI no big Clemens fan, but Clemens looks more to me like David Wells than Mark McGwire. If you look at Nolan Ryan, Schilling and Clemens as rookies, and compare them to late in their careers, they all porked-up. Clemens isn't fat like Wells, but he isn't huge like the known 'roid takers.
And the theory that Bonds is somehow being singled-out because of his race and dislike by the media is simply not true. You can span all the colors of the rainbow with McGwire, Canseco, Palmiero and Sosa ... all popular in their day and idolized in the media in their team's cities. Yet they suffer the same stigma as Bonds. Bonds' stigma may be more intense, but that's only because he's the best player of the bunch (and perhaps the most disliked as a person).
And if media dislike is the barometer, then perhaps that's proof Clemens is actually clean. Clemens is HATED in Boston, so wouldn't he have been outed by the Boston media already if they could have done so?