We’re done whining about the Brett Favre thing for now, so we’ll focus our attention today on the one guy who’s saga has lasted longer and irritated more viciously than Favre’s, Roger Clemens.

Today, the Rocket’s lawyer, whose name is Rusty Hardin, filed a 97-page report to kick off Clemens’ defamation case against Brian McNamee. If you’re scoring at home, McNamee hooked up Clemens and just about everyone else in baseball with steroids, but Clemens still denies everything. Also, Clemens likes young girls, and his lawyer is named Rusty Hardin.

Here’s an excerpt from the thrill ride that is Rusty Hardin’s case against McNamee:

No legal system would allow government agencies to somehow ‘deputize’ a private individual or entity such that any statements a person makes to the private entity would be covered by a priviledge.

Hard-hitting stuff. The most amazing part of the whole thing is that the Clemens’ legal drama got buried after 11 pages of Favre coverage in the Daily News, the same paper that covered Clemens’ every move a few months ago.

Maybe the big problem with the 24-hour news cycle and all the related fallout is that news gets pushed out of mind so quickly. If we all forget about Clemens’ legal proceedings, will we all forget that he’s an outrageous and intolerable jackass? We hope not, because we want to continue to relentlessly bash him here and on the show.