Roger Clemens: "I never took steroids."
Brian McNamee: "I injected Roger."
Clemens: "No he didn't."
Though those are not actual quotes from today's Congressional hearing, they pretty much sum up what happened.
Absolutely nothing.
Ever since the Mitchell Report came out, this entire Roger Clemens thing has been a joke. Basically, it's McNamee's word against Clemens', and there is very little evidence whatsoever. McNamee claims to have used syringes and bloody gauze with Clemens' DNA on them, but I highly doubt that.
Today's hearing was more about public perception than anything. Honestly, Clemens looked innocent. Do I think he took steroids? Perhaps, but he sure can lie tremendously well under oath if he did.
McNamee on the other hand looked suspicious to say the least. While being berated by multiple congress members, he showed very little emotion and he seemed to backtrack on earlier statements he made.
Maybe McNamee is telling the truth. Regardless, who is America going to believe? A seven-time Cy Young winning superstar pitcher, or a former cop turned steroid distributor?
The second option does not seem like the right one to me.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Observations on the Roger Clemens hearing
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So... I'm a really big nerd... Last night at like 3 a.m., I was flipping through channels and I stopped on (*tear*) CSpan... where they were showing members of the House discussing this whole thing. I don't remember for sure which Representative was speaking but he was talking about how McNamee has been going back on his word a lot in this hearing and he was pulling out examples from the past as well.
Then I went to sleep.
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