Rocket misfires

A few months ago, Roger Clemens was one of the biggest names in sports. Maybe not the most loved guy in baseball, but respected across the board.

Seven Cy Young awards, — two more than Randy Johnson. A whole bunch of other Hall of Fame numbers — 354 wins, 4,672 strikeouts.

His retiring and unretiring shtick in the last few years was impossible to ignore. Surely he would be remembered as one of the greatest pitchers ever.

Then came the Mitchell report, which said what a lot of people had whispered all along: Roger got some pharmaceutical help in his later years, and we ain’t talking Nolan Ryan’s Advil.

Now the Mitchell report has been followed by the McCready report.

Rog admits he had a decade-long relationship with the country star … that began when Mindy was only 15. But the Rocket insists it wasn’t, uh, sexual.

If you believe that, you probably also believe that he threw inside heat so hitters could get a good look at the baseball.

The story of Roger’s relationship to Mindy came out after he foolishly filed a lawsuit against his former trainer, who said he was a big-time juicer.

And there’s still a fair chance Rog could be indicted for perjury for volunteering to go before Congress and swear he never touched the stuff.

He should have quit while he was ahead. He would have been assured of a Hall of Fame berth the first year he was eligible.

Now that’s far into the future, and he suddenly has other legal problems.

In 1996, McCready had a No. 1 single called, “Guys Do It All the Time.”

They sure do.