Clemens, McNamee, and Other Vermin
February 13, 2008 by Geoff Young
Filed under Roid Rage
Getting in late on this because a) I have a book to finish writing, and b) I find the whole affair disgusting, but for those interested, pitcher Roger Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee are testifying before Congress. Jayson Stark is blogging it at ESPN.
People suck…
I wrote a piece about this Geoff. We sure didn’t learn a whole lot today. There were a lot of lies spewed today.
Can’t say that I’m surprised. There’s way too much at stake to come clean now. Like I said, people suck…
You’re right Geoff, people suck. I listened to a lot of it on XM 175 this morning. And it seemed more posturing than anything.
Though Clemens seemed to have this “I’m Roger Clemens damn it!” attitude going with him today. Ugh…it was like nails on a chalkboard.
Two guys swearing the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth . . . but telling tales that directly contradict one another.
Somebody’s pants are on fire, that’s for sure.
RD, that’s why I steer clear of this stuff as much as possible without completely ignoring it. I’ll drop good money on Cirque de Soleil if I want that.
Well said, Jodie; it wouldn’t surprise me if both of them are lying at this point.
I was even less impressed with the government officials. Each one of their questioning sessions seemed to start with them condemning the whole event as a circus, then finishing off with 10 minutes of them doing the government equivalent of juggling fire. The whole thing was loathsome.
The saddest thing was I could never figure out what was the point of the whole exercise. Ok, Clemens got to call McNamee a liar under oath, while McNamee got to say once again that he did a horrible thing but only because the players asked him to. The politicians got to grandstand a bit. Both the player and the trainer agreed that taking steroids and hgh was dangerous and people shouldn’t do it. Nothing was resolved, but then again who expected that to happen. No one was even sure if criminal charges for perjury would even be pressed. Someone, I think it was Waxman, said the only reason it happened was because Roger Clemens asked that it happen. Why? Clemens has a lawsuit going against McNamee already. Wouldn’t that be a more appropriate arena to establish Clemens’ innocence than a question and answer session with a bunch of Congressmen? Even if, as Waxman and Davis both said afterwards, Congress’ main concern was that MLB needs to adopt all the recommendations in the Mitchell Report to clean up the game it sure was a silly way to do it.
Yep, Doug, grandstanding is the right word. This is all supposed to convince the public that Something Is Being Done. Yawn. Wake me when it’s over.