* There is an opportunity for Roger Clemens to face the consequences of his actions. Commissioner Bud Selig should not permit Clemens to play again in a major league game, based on the precedent of former commissioner Fay Vincent, who denied Minnie Minoso a chance to play in his sixth decade in the major leagues in 1990. A single appearance by Clemens in a major league game gives him the self-serving opportunity to delay being on the Hall of Fame ballot for five more years. By that time, his situation may have sorted itself out and his chances for induction will have improved. His Hall of Fame clock needs to start ticking now.

DAVID OLECHNA

Simsbury, Conn.

Pinstriped success

* To all of the anti-Yankees blowhards that continually claim the Yankees buy all the best players and therefore that’s why they win: I give you Cody Eppley, Clay Rapada, Freddy Garcia, Jayson Nix, Andruw Jones, Raul Ibanez, Chris Stewart and Eric Chavez. All of them are players any team in baseball could have signed to a reasonable one- or two-year contract this past offseason. So maybe the Yankees are just better than their competition off the field as well. Plus, I have zero sympathy for teams that trade their players away when they become stars. If you don’t want to pay your players then sell the team to someone who will.

JAMES POLLIO

Brooklyn

Court Jets-ters

* I have been a Jets fan for 30 years, and for the first time, I am embarrassed. It has nothing to do with the results between the lines. But from coach Rex Ryan on down, this is the most dysfunctional circus I have ever seen.

JOSEPH BLACK

Staten Island

Flushing the season

* Although the Mets started 2012 as a feel good story, the bottom line is this: They have played 16 games under .500 since their 4-0 start. That is not exactly what you’d call progress. I realize general manager Sandy Alderson has certain restraints, but the entire Mets roster, save for five or six players, has to be replaced. It’s not as if the Mets can do much worse.

LOUIE REY

East Meadow, N.Y.

Denigrating Derek

* Poor Derek Jeter, current American League MVP candidate, is having one of the best seasons of his career, but the rumors are starting. Fans and pundits are skeptical about a 38-year-old suddenly finding the fountain of youth and dramatically improving his performance over the past two lackluster seasons. Right away, many think of performance-enhancing drugs to explain dramatic improvement in players over 35 years of age. Sure it’s unfair to Jeter, one of the real class acts in all of sports, but I think the reason some are so quick to think of PEDs is they know they would use the drugs themselves if they would give them magical powers on the playing field.

MICHAEL J. GORMAN

Whitestone