Wednesday, February 13, 2008
So long Clemens, it was nice knowing you...
I was really hoping, as naive at it was, that there was a chance that Clemens was clean. I would have even settled for the excuse that everyone else is using "I tried it once, but was disgusted by it and didn't want to associate myself with steroids". Being a kid with no one to root for other than a crappy M's team 2500 miles to the south, I fell in love with Clemens. I had his posters, t-shirts, he and Sandberg were the guys I 'collected' in the baseball card world. I remember going to a card show with about $25 I had been saving up and blew it all Clemens, that's a decent chunk of change for a 10 year kid in the late 80's. As time went on I began to realize that he was a bit of an arrogant hothead, but still, he always had a special spot on my internal shelf of baseball memories. As I listen to the congressional hearings this morning I try not to jump to conclusions, but it is not looking good for Clemens. The fact that Pettitte swore that Clemens told him that he took HGH is pretty striking. I really don't see Clemens wriggling out of this one, but we'll see what else is said in the hearings. I suppose we can still asume his 20k night against the M's is legit.
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That was an interesting hearing because for the first half I thought Clemens sounded like he was lying and he didn't have a leg to stand on. Then, MacNamie started to sound bad, and some of the Congressman seemed to attack him... then at the end Clemens looked bad again. Seems to me like there is a lot of lying going on. But I have a hard time believing Clemens didn't at least do something.
I will say that Congress could be doing something better with my tax dollars though. Is this issue really something that Congress should be dealing with? For my money(which they are using), I say no.
I'll second that thought. Clemens is probably lying and did something, while MacNamie is a scumbag no matter what (he's either lying, or he kept evidence of a crime HE participated in for 7 years just to trap Clemens).
In the end, it is a horrible waste of time and money (and when you consider the total cost in man-hours of this hearing, I'm sure it's in the millions of $$). Why don't they bring Ludacris, a bunch of other rappers, and the dealers that sold them weed, in from of Congress. After all, they're very public figures, they admit that they smoke weed, and they're idolized by youth.
To quote Maude Flanders, "Won't somebody think of the children?!"
It's so comforting that Congress has time to deal with this but doesn't care that the President has effectively destroyed the Constitution.
Am I the only who just doesn't care about steroids?
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