Arena: Sports: Baseball: Say It Ain’t So, Roger! by truth_is_here34

by truth_is_here34
(Boston, Massachusetts, United States)

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I have always had my doubts about the legitimacy of Roger Clemens as an honest guy. Now, there are some guys I have come across who are really good liars and can bend the truth so perfectly, you would have a very difficult time questioning their sincerity. Roger Clemens is not one of those people. The interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes confirmed my suspicions that Roger Clemens did indeed use steroids for a significant time period in his career.


I can see why Clemens vehemently denies his involvement with steroid use. He is without argument one of the greatest pitchers of all time and his numbers speak for themselves. Recently though, things just do not add up with Clemens. Quite frankly it seems the older he gets, the better he gets.


That is not supposed to happen, right? Though Roger has one of the most intense workout regiments of any active baseball player and I do indeed believe that he trains hard even at the age of 45, the evidence does not favor Roger’s innocence.


Clemens’ personal trainer Brian McNamee has come forward and admits that he did inject his client with HGH and Clemens passionately denies this and attests that he was injected only with vitamin B12 and lidocaine. The obvious denial comes in here but there is a deeper question that comes out of Clemens’ defiance and that is: what does Brian McNamee have to gain by distorting the truth about his client?


Why would Roger Clemens’ personal trainer come forward and take the certainly difficult step of testifying against his client if there was nothing in it for him? The answer is nothing.





Brian McNamee’s testimony in the Mitchell Report is the truth because he knows that lying gets him nowhere in this situation. After being quiet for some time after the full blown accusations against him became known to the public in the Mitchell Report, Clemens today has decided to file a defamation lawsuit against McNamee.


There is no doubt in my mind that McNamee was aware of this possibility and will most likely counter sue.


Clemens had a considerable period of time to respond publicly to the accusations against him and decided not to do so. He has “missed his window” to come clean and now has no choice but to strongly deny his involvement with steroid use.


Clemens’ best friend Andy Pettite was also mentioned in the Mitchell Report but came forward right away with a statement acknowledging his brief use of HGH. This is the road that Clemens should have taken. It is too late now.


Is some of the information in the Mitchell Report inconclusive and ambiguous? Yes. There are hardly any player testimonials. What we have here though is a direct testimonial from an all-star pitcher’s personal trainer.


McNamee and Clemens have always had a good relationship but as difficult as it must have been for McNamee to tarnish Clemens’ incredible legacy, it was something that had to be done for obvious reasons.


Now we must accept the difficult truth that one of the greatest pitchers in the history of baseball has further compromised the integrity of baseball.