Rocket Relaunch?

Okay.  I lied.  I am going to talk about the possibility of Clemens returning to Boston.  How could I resist?  Read the following article from Gordon Edes at the Globe today, detailing the take of Sox pitching coach and Clemens's long-time pal Al Nipper on the situation:

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/04/26/for_nipper_it_would_be_classic_reunion/

Of course, Nipper is hardly an unbiased source.  He is lobbying his friend hard to come back to where it all started for the Rocket, and why wouldn't he?  The Sox sure could use Clemens, and Nipper would love to win a ring with the team.  The old buddies both came close as teammates in '86, but we all know how that ended.

Surely it would be poetic for Roger to return to the team with which he got his baseball start, the organization with which he won 192 games (tied with Cy Young himself for the most in Red Sox history), three Cy Young Awards, and an MVP, the city in which he was beloved for 13 seasons.  Should he return, he would be beyond beloved -- he would be a mythical figure, the prodigal son returning.  If Clemens led Boston to a World Championship...Well, words can scarcely describe that status...but it would leave more than a few Bostonians starting a new religion.

Truth be told, Clemens should return to Boston.  It just feels right.  It's the right story.  It's the right ending.  It's all the drama and all the pressure and all the adrenaline: the stuff of Rocket's dreams and then some.  It seems like -- dare I say it? -- destiny.

But we all know that destiny, however palpable it seems, is beyond our control.  For now, we can only hope.  But what a destiny it would be.