The Elephant in the Red Sox Board Room

• 1. 5/6/07, The Boston Globe reports the Red Sox made an $18 million dollar offer to Roger Clemens to pitch in the 2007 season. (The article reports Clemens did not accept the offer).

• 2. August 2007, SI.com Jon Heyman reports the month when George Mitchell first contacted Brian McNamee about Roger Clemens (1/7/08 SI.com):

• "Three months later, in August (2007), he (McNamee) was called before Mitchell, and asked to nod to what he told the feds the month before. When he was done nodding, he says Mitchell hugged him. But he claims he took no pride in it."

Had it worked out as the Red Sox planned, Clemens would've been pitching for them the summer of 2007.

• Meaning Mitchell would have had conferences with McNamee on days when perhaps Clemens was even pitching for the Red Sox, planning for a glittering grand ballroom drop of Clemens' name, Mitchell's own player.

• Meaning George Mitchell as an owner of the Red Sox would have rented space in a grand ballroom of a NY city hotel to use last December to showcase his own player on worldwide cameras as the biggest villain in baseball.

Mitchell would have validated his work on television news programs beamed around the world again on following days. He would've sat on tv before congress and waved his finger and told them it's in the report. With his own player as the headliner.

• You see the problem. But no one talks about it.

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