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Bostonherald.com - The wife of retired pro-wrestler “Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake” claims accused baseball bad boy Roger Clemens made a pass at her 18 years ago, but the married Red Sox [ team stats] ace never reached first base. Barbara Leslie, 43, of Winchester - then a comely waitress at the celeb-magnet Palace nightclub in Saugus - claims that in her brush with the Rocket, he said, “ ‘What would you do if I tried to kiss you?’ ” and she replied, “ ‘What would your wife say if you tried to kiss me? ” Leslie, who hadn’t yet met her husband of 15 years, Edward Leslie, was fetching drinks in lifeguard shorts and a tank top at the Palace when, she says, Clemens happened by with a pal in 1990. “People were going, ‘Roger Clemens is here, Roger Clemens is here!’ ” she said. “Being a big sports personality in Boston, all the waitresses wanted to wait on him. He definitely didn’t act like a man who was married, though.” Leslie said Clemens had been in the club about an hour and she admits to flirting with him until he allegedly followed her into a dressing room off-limits to the public, leaned into her and made the clumsy, rebuffed overture. “Back then, it was a compliment to have someone like Roger Clemens think you’re pretty, and I’m a huge Red Sox fan,” said Leslie, “but the next day, I was totally grossed out.”  “I gotta tell you, he wasn’t that great a tipper,” Leslie said. “As I recall, he didn’t even take his money out.”

Listen I hate Roger Clemens as much as the next guy.  But I’m calling total bullshit on this story.  Clearly Mrs. Beefcake is just mad that Clemens stiffed her on a tip 18 years ago.   Because there is no fucking way that a waitress at the Palace is turning down the Rocket at the height of his power in Boston.  Just no way.  That would be like Tom Brady showing up at Waterworks on a Sunday Night and some South Shore broad refusing to blow him.  Impossible.   It just wouldn’t happen.  So despite how reputible the Beefcakes are, I just refuse to believe this really happened.