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Waldman: Nothing shocks me anymore

BY NEIL BEST | neil.best@newsday.com

May 6, 2008

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Suzyn Waldman's surprise and excitement lit up the radio waves that day, and spent the ensuing year echoing through the canyons of the Internet.

OK, let's say it together and get it over with: Oh my goodness gracious.

Twelve months later, is Waldman shocked by what has unfolded in the life of Roger Clemens?

"Nothing shocks me anymore," she said on a rare day off yesterday. "The only thing that has surprised me and disappointed me is the glee with which people are going after Roger.

"I think the more people accomplish, the bigger people are, the more excited people are to bring them down, and there's a real feeding frenzy on this man."

Waldman said she does not know whether Clemens took steroids or committed the personal indiscretions of which he has been accused.

"I can only judge people on what I observe and how they treat me," she said, "and since the mid-'80s, I've known him and all of his family and watched the kids being born and knew his mother and know his sisters ... I never saw this stuff. I don't know if it's true. Does it change what I think of Roger Clemens? I don't think so."

Waldman noted, "At the beginning, everyone was saying if he's not guilty, then fight [steroid charges], so he fought it, but he didn't fight it quote-unquote the right way."

Later, she added, "Let's just say that Brian McNamee hired the right lawyer."

Of course, Waldman is not as visible as Clemens, but last year, she absorbed criticism and ridicule both for her reaction to Clemens' return and for shedding tears after Joe Torre's final game.

"The only thing that surprises me about anything that happens is the glee with which people are dealing with this venom," she said. "It surprised me last year when it happened to me."

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