Roger Clemens responds to Mike Piazza

In his new book Mike Piazza talks about taking karate lessons and all of the strategizing he did in anticipation of the big brawl he ended up never having with Roger Clemens. Clemens showed up at Astros spring training yesterday and spoke to the Houston Chronicle about that:

“He’d have to stand in line. I think there was about three guys on the Yankees that wanted a piece of me more than (he) did. He’d probably have to get in line.”

That was joking. Well, kind of joking. He said that there were guys he didn’t get along with during his career that he does now having met them off the field. He said “most of them” were good guys. I wonder who he thinks wasn’t. Clemens also noted that rather than karate training, Piazza needed speed training:

“He needs to go get with Jesse Owens or somebody on his speed, I think. He chased some dude around the spring training site one time, didn’t he, or something? ...”

That refers to Guillermo Mota, who Piazza once tried to fight but ... wasn’t fast enough to catch.

OK, with that I think I’m getting kinda tired of Mike Piazza stories. We’ve talked an awful lot about him lately. Starting to sound like me and my college friends talking about old times. No one but us wants to hear that.