Dropped calls can ruin a timely retirement

This Cingular commercial, in which Roger Clemens can’t hear (due to a dropped call) his wife’s frantic exhortations for him to retire, broke in August, before the pitcher’s late-season injury meltdown. But it continues to air, and viewers now will tend to agree with Debbie Clemens, and hope the Rocket does have a decent cell-phone plan so her message can get through. Clemens is officially on the fence about coming back for another year, and he tells the Houston Chronicle that the