“Richard Emery just has to quit smoking his own dope,” said Rusty Hardin, one of Clemens’ attorneys.

Goodness, was Rusty Hardin this hi-larious when defending Arthur Andersen?

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Rusty Hardin Strikes Again

After yesterday’s bigger-waste-of-tax-dollars-than-usual, the backwater lawyers of each client continue to spout off about nearly anything and everything. Now, although Roger Clemens hasn’t been convicted (or charged) with a crime, Brian McNamee’s lawyer thinks President Bush will pardon Clemens. Sure, why the hell not?

Lawyer Richard Emery made the claims Thursday, a day after a congressional hearing broke down along party lines. Many Democrats were skeptical of Clemens’ denials he used performance-enhancing drugs and Republicans questioned the character of McNamee, the personal trainer who made the accusations against the seven-time Cy Young Award winner.

“It would be the easiest thing in the world for George W. Bush, given the corrupt proclivities of his administration, to say Roger Clemens is an American hero, Roger Clemens helped children,” Emery said in a telephone interview. “It’s my belief they have some reason to believe they can get a pardon.”

In summation, don’t mess with Texas.

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Everyone Seems to Think That This Clemens Thing is Important

I really don’t want to write about the Clemens steroids thing. I really truly don’t. The story itself is remarkably boring. McNamee says Clemens took steroids. Clemens says he didn’t. Congress doesn’t have better things to do, so they get involved. Ho-hum. But the star of this whole process — the one who makes this remotely interesting — has emerged. That star is Rusty Hardin. From the name that seems vaguely obscene, but actually isn’t, to the odd statistical defense, to his most recent gem, Clemens’ lawyer has been utterly fantastic.

Hardin was quoted in Sunday’s New York Times as saying it would be “brazen” and “unbelievable” if IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, a key prosecutor in the BALCO drug cases, attends the hearing.

“If he ever messes with Roger, Roger will eat his lunch,” Hardin was quoted as saying.

Uh…what? This is apparently being interpreted as a threat. If it is a threat, it’s really quite obtuse. To me, it sounds like it would be more threatening to make someone eat your lunch rather than eating their lunch. “If you mess with me, I’ll make you eat my lunch!” Eh, really, lunch consuming isn’t intimidating in any way, shape, or form. You did it again, Rusty!

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The Weirdest Threat (?) I’ve Ever Heard

First all those baseball players, then Clemens’ wife. McNamee probably injects so easily because he has low self esteem and he just wants to feel wanted.

Brian McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Roger Clemens‘ wife with human growth hormone as she prepared for a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition photo session five years ago, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

McNamee testified during his Capitol Hill deposition on Thursday that he injected Debbie Clemens at her husband’s direction, the News said on its Web site, citing an unidentified Washington source.

Clemens’ lawyers did not directly address the accusation when asked. The pitcher was in Washington to meet with congressmen for a second straight day.

“It’s pretty clear now who this guy really is,” Rusty Hardin, Clemens’ lead lawyer, said of McNamee. “This guy never ceases to amaze me.”

It is in no way clear to me what kind of guy McNamee is. I mean, all I can really see is that he’s a guy who likes to inject people with HGH for a variety of things that HGH probably doesn’t help with, because McNamee allegedly injected Mrs. Clemens for her Sports Illustrated shoot. He also appears to be a guy who keeps mementos of injecting people.

During McNamee’s deposition, his lawyers showed the committee photographs of syringes and vials and even a crumpled beer can. McNamee’s lawyers say the items, when tested, will link Clemens to the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

“Roger Clemens has put himself in a position where his legacy as the greatest pitcher in baseball will depend less on his ERA and more on his DNA,” one of McNamee’s lawyers, Earl Ward, said Thursday.

Not pictured, but also from McNamee’s memory chest, the ticket stub from when McNamee and Clemens went to see Chocolat.

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McNamee Is Kind of an Injecting Slut

Clemens: Remember what Carmelo Anthony says about snitching?
Don’t.

Andy Pettitte, who admitted to using HGH immediately after he as accused of doing so, is likely to testify to that effect before Congress. This is probably going to screw Roger Clemens, but whatever, Clemens has his own foolproof statistical defense which cannot be refuted in any way!

“Based on what we know, there was a situation where Andy was speaking to Roger in Brian’s presence, then Andy came over to Brian and essentially said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me about this stuff?’ He referred to HGH,” Ward said. “Brian discouraged him and then several months later, when he (Pettitte) got injured, he came back and asked Brian about it, and that’s when Brian injected him. We believe that based on the fact that Andy came to Brian and asked him about HGH, it was Roger who told Andy about HGH and that’s why he asked Brian about it.”

Richard Emery, another lawyer for McNamee, said his client and Pettitte also discussed steroids use by Clemens.

“Pettitte is certainly going to tell the truth and if he tells the truth everything will be fine,” Emery said.

Goodness, Congress is already boring, hearing people talk about talking about talking about steroids isn’t going to help at all.

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McNamee: Pettitte to Snitch, and Snitch Good