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PopTop
05-19-2004, 06:35 PM
This can't be the first time Clemens was on the cover. Wonder what his record is after he was on the cover other times?

Clemens lands on cover of SI
By Jim Molony / MLB.com (http://houston.astros.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/hou/news/hou_news.jsp?ymd=20040518&content_id=746271&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp)

http://houston.astros.mlb.com/images/2004/05/18/edYCg9NE.jpg

The Rocket has landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Roger Clemens, off to a 7-0 start for the first-place Astros, is on the publication's cover for the eighth time, and the first since he signed with Houston during the offseason.

A shot of the right-hander with the headline "Bringing It Home ... The Best of Times for Roger Clemens" adorns the cover of this week's issue.

According to a press release issued by the magazine, the following is from the profile of the six-time Cy Young Award winner: "Just 15 minutes from his family -- and four months removed from his brief retirement -- the ageless Roger Clemens is mowing down hitters and heating up the baseball climate in Houston," writes Tom Verducci in Home Fire.

Clemens is the first member of the Astros to appear on the magazine's cover since Randy Johnson, who appeared in 1998 after being acquired from Seattle. J.R. Richard, a right-hander who pitched for Houston in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was on the cover twice (1980, 1981).

Second baseman Joe Morgan and shortstop Sonny Jackson, Houston teammates during the 1960s, appeared on the cover together in 1966
Baseball Guru
05-19-2004, 08:30 PM
Hmmmm, somehow I think he will escape the curse;)
renuszm
05-19-2004, 08:49 PM
I dont think I can believe jinxes right now. Not after the Braves announcers said "perfect game" a hundred billion times yesterday.
PopTop
05-19-2004, 09:47 PM
Good point, Ren. Those bozos even talked about how they were talking about it :hmm:
Toy Cannon
05-19-2004, 10:26 PM
Nothing pisses me off more than to hear someone constantly refer to a no-hitter while one is being pitched. Yes, I'm superstitious. What baseball player (or fan) isn't? When pitching, I never touched the foul line on my way to the dugout after an inning. When batting right handed, I always stepped into the box with my right foot first while *cupping* myself with my left hand. When batting left handed, it was always left foot first, bat on my shoulder and both hands on the bat.:notme: When playing CF, I always toucher the corner bag in relation to the dugout we were in. It's part of the game, don't piss off the Baseball Gods!
PissedPrincess
05-22-2004, 04:08 PM
When I first came to this board, I was doing a Sox game thread. It just happened to be Lowe's Nono. Some unmamed poster ( no longer posts here) kept coming into my thread to say hey! Lowe is throwing a nono. :angry:

Had I found out where he lived, I'd be posting this from prison. :smokin:
Toy Cannon
05-22-2004, 04:31 PM
When I first came to this board, I was doing a Sox game thread. It just happened to be Lowe's Nono. Some unmamed poster ( no longer posts here) kept coming into my thread to say hey! Lowe is throwing a nono. :angry:

Had I found out where he lived, I'd be posting this from prison. :smokin:

It drives me crazy! Whatever I'm doing when I realize a no-hitter is happening, I keep doing it. When Darryl Kile no-hit the Mets a few years ago, I was in the bathroom when I realized he had a chance (6th inning). Everytime the Mets came to bat, back to the john I went. I was listening to the game on the radio, but refused to move it off my desk to hear better. I was straining (to hear) and could hear just enough to tell when the inning was over and would return to the bedroom. Know what? IT WORKED!!!:wink:
PopTop
05-22-2004, 11:21 PM
Everytime the Mets came to bat, back to the john I went.

I feel that way almost everytime I listen to a Mets game. ;)
Baseball Guru
05-22-2004, 11:27 PM
Hmmmm, somehow I think he will escape the curse;)


Then again;)

Tonight wasnt one of his better starts :hmm:
barzilla
05-23-2004, 10:08 PM
I don't know about the SI jinx. I think a lot of it had to do with the let down from the blown save in the last start. He had seven consecutive victories and would have had eight. Yes, he does have the win streak intact, but I view like I view a no-no that is broken up. How often do you see the pitcher fall apart after that? He had tremendous focus through those first eight starts and it was broken up some.