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Torre Backs Clemens...Kind of
My Pinstripes — ... But I think the big part of it was the access, where these two people were both based in New York." "When you're talking about 80 players that supposedly were using one thing or another, to me it may be an incomplete report," he said. "The only thing I do know is that the most important thing for us in baseball is to make sure that when we take the field, that the fans trust us. So whatever we have to do to make that happen, I think that's important." Source

Thursday Morning Hot Stove Rundown
Hot Foot — Here’s whats cooking on the Hot Stove this morning… The Yankees think they still have a shot at Johan Santana. Please, enough already. Mets Blog read in a latin newspaper that the Royals are close to signing Bartolo Colon. Keith Hernandez is being inducted into the Hall Of Fame…in Missouri. Its close to being Lima Time in Japan. Torre isn’t exactly coming to the Rocket’s defense. The Marlins are close to a deal with Jorge Cantu. ...

Anyone counting the Clemens' pitches? Not J. Edgar Hoover.
Steroid Nation — ... different.” 3.  Bloomberg says Clemens will hold a post-60 minutes news conference. Roger Clemens will hold a press conference on Jan. 7, one day after a nationally televised interview airs on CBS's ``60 Minutes'' in which the pitcher might defend himself against allegations of using performance- enhancing drugs. 4. McNamee's lawyer says he will sue Clemens (as we reported here) 5. Joe Torre won't pick sides in the Clemens v. McNamee fight. 6.  Clemens's speaking ...