Another roider!?!

I can't take it anymore.

Another day, another report of someone else taking the juice. This time there's an admission.

OK, it's not a real admission, and Booker T isn't the name of the day in the world of steriod scandal. The latest revelation is that Debbie Clemens did the juice to prepare for a bikini shot in the 2003 SI swimsuit edition.

This week we've seen bloody gauze, syringes, beer cans and now this. The worst part is we probably won't ever get a straight answer. Who can you really trust: the egomaniac who's been full of it for his 20-year career or the guy who saves other people's medical-type waste for years?

I also keep going back to an idea Bill Simmons proposed recently: What if Clemens started juicing when he was still a Red Sox?

With all the craziness swirling around this story, it seems more likely that Clemens' Boston finish was tainted by more than just being out-of-shape and unmotivated.

Here's my memory of his ending:

On Sept. 18, 1996, I was in my dorm room doing whatever a college sophomore does on a random weekday night, when across the ticker comes news that Roger Clemens is pitching a great game.

Being the ancient times when the Internet was still dawning, I waited for ESPN to interrupt its regularly scheduled programming to see if Clemens could match the 20 K game he had 10 years earlier. He did.

I took it as a sign that Clemens - who besides the strike-shortened 1994 hadn't had a good year since 1992 - was back and would have a respectable ending to his career. It was such a deep moment I popped my favorite mix tape in my Walkman (remember, ancient times of 1996) and headed for a courtyard where I could think alone.

Also fresh in my mind was one of my best in-park experiences a month earlier when Clemens shut out the Angels in what proved to be his last home shutout in Boston.

On Aug. 1, after a drubbing by the Royals, Clemens stood at 4-11 with a 4.36 ERA, 9.16 K/9 and a 1.42 WHIP, averaging 6.8 innings per start. In his last 10 Red Sox starts, he averaged 7.7 innings and went 6-2 with a 2.08 ERA, striking out 11.24 per 9 and a posting a 1.12 WHIP.

Was Aug. 1 the end of the Rocket and the start of the Roider? Could be, but thankfully, even if it were, it didn't affect championships.

YES

Cue the Suzy Waldman dramatics. Put the YES camera crews on call for an instant Yankeeography. Have Howard Rubenstein draft a missive from George.

The greatest baseball team we have ever seen is reuniting. Yes, the 1998 Yankees, they of the 114-48 record and 11-2 World Series run will join up again on Jan. 16 to regale Congress with tales of how they stole titles in the 90s and formed the best team drugs could inflate. Big-time players -- Roidger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch -- are slated, but so is the team's most valuable contributor, Brian McNamee.

No word yet whether other members of the Empire's dynasty -- like Justice, Holmes or Velarde -- will be called.

Or whether disgraced Red Sox and Phillies alums like Manny Alexander or Lenny Dykstra will be invited. {Note from Christine: I wouldn't say that Lenny Dykstra has been disgraced. Disappointing, yes, but I don't think anyone thinks less of him since the report came out. It's not a surprise that he was named. Especially since he talked with MLB officials about his steroid use in 2000 and yet nothing was done about steroids in baseball until years later.}

In other sports: A protracted Red Sox playoff run delayed my interest in football this year, I still can't believe the regular season's over. Like many, I'm going heavy on road warriors this weekend.

I'm jumping on the Redskins bandwagon, the Steelers are too beat up and the Giants will find a way to get past Tampa Bay. The only favorite who will play like it is the Chargers, who will look more like the '06 version than the '07 version against the Titans.

But we all know these four games are just appetizers for the weekend's main event: two Yankee blowhards pinky swear over steroids.