From the book So Many Ways to Lose, by Devin Gordon. Copyright © 2021 by Devin Gordon. To be published on March 16, 2021 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.
Illustration by The Sporting Press
So there they were, Mike Piazza and Roger Clemens, 11 years after the Incident at the Subway Series between the Mets and the Yankees in 2000, infamous nemeses now settling into easy breezy retirement, wedged next to each other on a pair of folding chairs at Michael Jordan’s celebrity golf tournament in Las Vegas, live on a talk-radio show, hot mics in front of them.