Growing up, the father of one of my best friends was a basketball and baseball coach, and one of his favorite sayings was, "You have to be smarter than the rock!" I always loved that quip. It's fairly obvious, but when coaching kids bears repeating.
When Roger Clemens went on the radio to speak about his alleged steroid use and reaction to a new book detailing his cheating behavior, he tried to give concrete reasons explaining why he wouldn't/couldn't have taken steroids.
One of the reasons was that heart disease runs in his family. His brother has it, his stepdad died from it, and...wait, what was that? Stepdad?
Oh, Roger. Roger Roger Roger. Apparently he's misremembered that marrying into a family doesn't make you blood relatives. By the way, he sticks with his original assessment that Andy Pettite still misremembers talking about steroids. Dude, seriously. I looked up misremembered on dictionary.com just to see if it existed. Holy oversized head, batman, it does. Seems it originated in the 16th century, and hasn't been used since. I'm guessing RC stumbled onto it trying to sound smart rather than recognizing the correct usage of a verb that popped up in 1525, but that's just my cynical nature. Or not.
Taking into account this is a guy who believes that heart disease runs in his family because his stepdad had it leads me to posit that he couldn't spell misremembers, let alone include it in a sentence that doesn't involve Andy Pettite or waffles; "I misremembered to put on the syrup and my waffles was dry. Like my steroids."
Maybe he thinks that saying something makes it so. If this is the case, he should really start a blog.
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