Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Definitely.

Look, I’m as excited as the next guy to watch Roger Clemens pitch for the Yankees this year, but aren’t we getting a little carried away?

ESPN cut away from SportsCenter on Monday to show the Rocket in action. But they didn’t show the whole game — only the half innings that Roger was pitching.

When he wasn’t, they went back to SportsCenter.

At the bottom of the screen was a running pitch count to remind us how fragile he is.

Clemens went six innings, allowing no runs and striking out six, for those that care.

Why doesn’t ESPN just broadcast the game? I have a problem with them showing half games. Isn’t it bad enough that Clemens is practically only playing half of a season — and only going to games he’s pitching? Apparently not. We have to broadcast the half of games that he’s pitching, too.

And when SportsCenter cut away from Roger, what did they talk about for the next five minutes?

Well, it wasn’t Roger McDowell, Rogers Hornsby, Roger Bossard, Roger Waters, Roger Daltrey or Mister Rogers.

Just, out.