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<p><span>I… uh…</span></p>
<p>I really thought teams preferred to pretend that Roger Clemens doesn’t exist, didn’t exist, and will never exist again. And yet… here we are.</p>
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<p>And also here, on Twitter, with video!:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TBT?src=hash">#TBT</a> to 1997 and Roger Clemens striking out 16 in his return to Fenway Park.<a href="https://t.co/RVwGHlY7NJ">https://t.co/RVwGHlY7NJ</a></p>
<p>— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/748507599054602242">June 30, 2016</a>
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<p>And there was also a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlueJays/videos/10153881945048772/">Facebook</a> post about it.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>I mean, I don&#8217;t <i>care</i>. In fact, I don&#8217;t think teams should get to whitewash away that uncomfortable little piece of history, which they were certainly more culpable in allowing to happen &#8212; as were the fans and media who now get so righteous about it &#8212; than the <i>demonize-individual-users-only</i> approach that&#8217;s usually taken to the subject suggests. I just figured no team would actually want to go <i>there</i>. As a point of <i>pride</i> almost.</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>But good on the Jays&#8217; social media intern. Maybe now that Barry Bonds is back in the game as the Marlins&#8217; hitting coach we&#8217;re really moving past some of this muck, and this is another way in which we&#8217;re seeing it. Still&#8230; it&#8217;s just <i>weird</i> seeing the official Jays accounts going, &#8220;HEY GUYS, LOOK! IT&#8217;S ROGER CLEMENS!&#8221; LOL.</p>

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</div> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BHR8R_xA8E_/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">#TBT to 1997 and Roger Clemens striking out 16 in his return to Fenway Park.</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A photo posted by Toronto Blue Jays (@bluejays) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-06-30T13:29:50+00:00">Jun 30, 2016 at 6:29am PDT</time></p>
</div></blockquote><script async="" defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p></p><p><span>I… uh…</span></p><p>I really thought teams preferred to pretend that Roger Clemens doesn’t exist, didn’t exist, and will never exist again. And yet… here we are.<br></p><p>And also here, on Twitter, with video!:</p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TBT?src=hash">#TBT</a> to 1997 and Roger Clemens striking out 16 in his return to Fenway Park.<a href="https://t.co/RVwGHlY7NJ">https://t.co/RVwGHlY7NJ</a></p>— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/748507599054602242">June 30, 2016</a>
</blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p></p><p>And there was also a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlueJays/videos/10153881945048772/">Facebook</a> post about it.</p><p>LOL.</p><p>I mean, I don't <i>care</i>. In fact, I don't think teams should get to whitewash away that uncomfortable little piece of history, which they were certainly more culpable in allowing to happen -- as were the fans and media who now get so righteous about it -- than the <i>demonize-individual-users-only</i> approach that's usually taken to the subject suggests. I just figured no team would actually want to go <i>there</i>. As a point of <i>pride</i> almost.</p><p>LOL!</p><p>But good on the Jays' social media intern. Maybe now that Barry Bonds is back in the game as the Marlins' hitting coach we're really moving past some of this muck, and this is another way in which we're seeing it. Still... it's just <i>weird</i> seeing the official Jays accounts going, "HEY GUYS, LOOK! IT'S ROGER CLEMENS!" LOL.</p>

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