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Originally Posted by wrikerjr
The reason they bring it up is because of little kids and steroids, rather than MLB and steroids. If you make examples out of superstars then the thought is younger athletes wont use them.
Its very sad. I got 10 things that came out of this debacle yesterday:
1.) McNamee is a liar and a drug dealer (we already new that)
2.) Pettite lied about his HGH use (this was shocking)
3.) McNamee's story about Clemens appears to be backed by Pettite and Knoblach (a little shocking)
4.) Pettite will be called in to testify about the conversation and you will have Pettite on one side and Clemens on the other (very interesting)
5.) They will have about 5 more of these hearings before someone is charged with perjury (waste of money)
6.) Clemens did HGH (suspected but now confirmed imo)
7.) Their was really no talk about anabolic steroids primarily hgh
8.) Barry Bonds will go down a much different route that Clemens
9.) congress has no plans on ensuring kids don't use steroids, they only care if Clemens used it (typical congress crap)
10.) Waxman looks like a pig who fell off a bus face first  |
Well said, wrikerjr, and funny too.
1). McNamee lied to The PRESS, to protect his clients, and he told the truth ~little by little, which is typical when one is part of the Drugee sub-culture~ when compelled to do so, UNDER OATH. Also, under oath he admitted to lying to the press and being dishonest by omission (viles/syringes/swabs) when he first spoke to investigators. Bottom line is he did tell the truth about lying and when he lied. Roger just continues to LIE, LIE, LIE!!
2). The only person that he allegedly lied about was Roger. Roger is the only one that says, "Andy 'misremembered' our conversation". All other accounts of Pettitte's statements have been corroborated by McNamee, Mitchell, Knoblauch, and Laura Pettitte.
3). And the viles/swabs/syringes and coming fingerprints on said viles, I presume? I just hope that he didn't forget
how to wear a wire and
when to wear a wire!! What if McNamee is really a NARC sent by the Feds to infiltrate MLB? If he is, he certainly wouldn't have blown his cover yet; thereby allowing him to snare the crooked congressional questioneers of yesterday, as well.
4). Andy Pettitte has no need for further testimony regarding this matter as he has been deposed by Congress and written a sworn affidavit that he submitted to the Sub-Comittee that will more than refute Roger's LIES and continue to destroy Clemens' credibility.
5). No need for further Congressional Hearings, as i am quite sure that the 5 FBI agents present were provided with all the ample perjurious testimony that they will need to proceed with criminal proceedings. No more taxpayer's money is necessary; but the draining away of a sizeable portion of Clemens' millions is inevitable, since the defamation suit against McNamee has yet to commence, there will hopefully be federal and state prosecutions based upon the physical evidence, and i don't think that Roger has seen the last of McNamee's defense team.
6). NO DOUBT, bro!
7). Did ya hear Senator Lynch's comments? The abcess to Roger's "star player's buttocks", in the slanted words of Sen Dufus Davis, were all about a winstrol injection gone bad, allegedly. What was the whole B12 BS about a bruised glute and the cockamaimey Baylor U study??? Are you sheeeetin' me? The last time I checked Baylor is still in the Lone Star State, isn't it? And Senator Steve Lynch-MA had not one, not two, but three experts and over 60 years of experience with regard to B12 vs Winstrol injections that agreed with McNamee. Even Dr Taylor, the Blue Jays team doctor, who gave Clemens one of his only two shots that the good doctor
ever administered seemed unsure of whether or not THE abcess was consistent with a B12 shot gone bad and lent more credibility to the data compiled by Senator Lynch, imo.
8). Certainly! As Clemens, in his zeal for litigiousness, has opened up way too many cans of worms and not nearly enough cans of reality or "whipass" to borrow a Southern vernacular. The prosecutorial firestorm that ensues him WILL be costly ~both financially and reputation-wise, serious ~from a legal standpoint and the repercussions that may or may not result from the consequences of his past/present/future actions, and damaging ~to his relationships with the media, his dwindling fandom/"regime" (TY Ginny Fox-NC for some reel laffs), and his family will be dragged thru this farce ad infinitum (how's Kobe and his younger brothers gonna take seeing thier once MLB iconic father reduced to the shell of a man/athelete that he has
and will become as a result of his own pig-headedness?)
9). That's debatable, to say the least. Without the first Congressional Hearing, there is NO Mitchell Report. Without the Mitchell Report, there are not 89 players named and no mention of McNamee or Clemens. Without bringing players of his former status out of the bathroom stalls and closets of the MLB lockerrooms, then kids think that they'll never get caught and that even the greats did it and they GOT AWAY with it.
We need these trials and the consequences that will follow to send our young atheletes the right message and to provoke the Players' Union to bring a loud and consistent message forward about the dangers and misfortunes of the Steroid Era. And MLB has some splainin' to do as well. In my opinion, they were complicit to a large degree in the past and, by extension, still are responsible for the current state of affairs. MLB Owners must "own" thier part of this Tainted Era as well, for they may have been the Big Ostriches in this Zoo; but, it was thier friggin' "sand" after all is said and done.
10). Agreed, wrikerjr, he isn't the best looker, but who cares what he looks like; unless you're planning on hooking him up? He came out of this looking better than any of DC's "fine" assembly, save for Senator Cummings. And the Gentlemen from Massachusetts who appeared were not far behind Senator Elijah Cummings. We could not have had a more fair and reasonable chairing of the differences gavelled by Mr Waxman, and his experience served him well when faced with the grand fanaticism and shadowing of doubts that Roger's rumpswabbers tried to thrust upon this nation's better and common sensibilities, imho!
THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING, sadly!
The BEGINNING of THE END for Clemens, HOPEFULLY!
Had he stepped up to the plate from the outset, like the 88 other players named by Senator Mitchell, this would already be behind us and he could've walked away with only a flesh wound. To a fan/foe, we would've said, "He was still onehelluva pitcher and everyone else was doing it, add another cheater to the list.........." and in time he would be forgiven.
It is his constant deception and pathalogical denials of what everyone else with 1/2 a brain knows to be true that chaps my arse so vehemently!! I am not alone. Roger, WE ARE NOT that stupid! WE WILL NOT carry your dirty pile of steroids and HGH crap for you! And, no matter how insistant you become, no matter how broken this will break you, and no matter who continues to lie for you and to you about this bizarre image you've fashioned for yourself ~~you must face REALITY at some point. I've always thought, the Sooner the better. But hey, I wonder what yer Momma said about THAT, Rogie? Did she just TELL ya to take B12 and not likewise inform you on the healthy benefits of a clear and sober conscience?