CLEMENS OUT AS SPEAKER FOR TX HI-SCHOOL CONVENTION The HOUSTON CHRONICLE today has the *strange* news that the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association has dumped Roger Clemens as the keynote speaker at its January convention.

The title of Clemens’ speech: “The topic of his speech to the THSBCA was “My vigorous workout, how I played so long (in professional baseball).“The association’s officers decided that in the wake of the Mitchell Report, which alleges that Clemens took steroids, he “was an inappropriate influencer to baseball coaches and students alike.”

We actually think the ban may be more related to the threat of Clemens showing up in those jeans.