YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING...
...when Steinbrenner dissed Pettite. Clemens watched it go down and decided he wanted to send Boss George a long distance spit in the eye.
update: The NY tabloids' sports editors are idiots. Calling Clemens a "traitor" is ridiculous. If anything, he proved his priorities are in a better place than most professional athletes in this town. He listened to the Yankees keep saying re-signing Andy was their first priority while they wooed players who couldn't carry Pettite's jock. Clemens was probably deeply involved in Pettite's decision to take the Astro offer. He probably also decided then and there that he was going to join his best buddy playing for their hometown team. When you read about Yankee officials feeling Roger conned them, remember Clemens never filed his retirement papers, which would have forced him to sit for a year before he could play for anybody.

The Yankees, for their part, didn't defend their rights to Clemens by filing for arbitration, even if they thought it was a pro forma, going-through-the-motions waste of time.

A final note: Roger, dude, since you pulled this move, there is no way in Hell Cooperstown is letting you wear a Yankee cap on your plaque. You're wearing a Red Sox lid. End of story. If you stayed retired, you may have generated enough sympathy. Any argument you offer about wearing the interlocking "NY" logo now gets laughed off the table, because Boss George is a member of the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors, and you assured the world the lunatic is gonna live as long as it takes to keep a Yankee hat off your plaque.