Country singer Mindy McCready tearfully told the Daily News that she did indeed have a 10 year romance with pitcher Roger Clemens. The Daily News broke this story yesterday, and they’ve followed up today by going straight to the source. McCready admitted that she and The Rocket were intimate, but read from a prepared statement to say it’s none of our business.

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time. He’s a kind and caring man. He’s also a legendary athlete. The central topic in the debate, however, regards his professional life, not his personal life.

Mindy McCready and Roger Clemens met in a Fort Meyers bar in 1990. Mindy was 15 years old, Clemens 28. In today’s terms it’s like Josh Beckett going out with somebody like Miley Cyrus..

Clemens took the 15-year-old McCready back to his hotel room the night they met, but McCready says Roger didn’t go Luis Polonia on her.. According to Mindy, they didn’t start hooking up until she moved to Nashville and her singing career was established.. I don’t know if I’m buying it..

Mindy McCready’s first album wasn’t released until 1996. That means if she had a 10-year-fling with Roger Clemens, it just ended in 2006. If Clemens stepped to her mound in 1993 and they broke up in 2003, that would put this ’03 Fox News blind item in a different perspective:

We were pretty upset when this professional sports player decided to leave New York. We thought it was for more money, but we were wrong.

For years this guy professed to have a “special relationship with God.” But it turns out he had a special relationship with a woman who was not his wife. When the wife found out, she went ballistic. The player had two choices: stay in New York with his mistress, or return home and play with a new team.

Wisely, he chose the latter, which was why you didn’t hear the thunder that usually accompanies such transactions. His New York employer knew the score, and had to acquiesce. Sometimes being a sport is more important than playing one.

At the time everybody thought that this referred to Andy Pettitte.. And it probably did considering Andy left the Yankees for Houston after the 2003 season, and he doesn’t hide his faith. So either Andy Pettitte copies his big buddy’s every action, or bits and pieces of the blind item were out of place.. Similar to the L.A. Times Roger Clemens/Jason Grimsley affidavit story.. If Roger dumped Mindy in 2003 it could explain her string of run-ins with the law starting in 2004.

Mindy McCready weeps as she confirms affair with Roger Clemens. Courtesy of the Daily News

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