People are strange these days.
Take for example former trainer to Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee.
Today he openly told Congress that he lied about certain events, agreed that he was a drug dealer, contradicted his own Mitchell Report testimony regarding the number of times he allegedly injected Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblacuh with PEDs and, creepily enough, keep for 6+ years the old syringes and gauze pads that he allegedly used to inject into Clemens butt before turning them over to investigators last month.
Yeah, he's a weird one, all right. But not as weird as these folks known as: We The People.
And who do We The People believe in all this mess?
Why Brian McNamee, of course!
Both ESPN and the Seattle Times posed similar poll questions and the results were strikingly similar:
Seattle Times asked: The court of public opinion: Who do you think is telling the truth?
Brian McNamee 74%
Roger Clemens 11%
Neither %15
ESPN asked: After this hearing, whom do you believe more?
Brian McNamee 76.8%
Roger Clemens 23.2%
Well, at least it's good to know that 23.2% of Seattle-ites still haven't been taken over by the Pod People from planet Xorbs.
Listen, Clemens testimony may have been shaky and at times evasive, but he's basically the defendant in all this. What proof did McNamee provide that would so sway people? More importantly, given McNamee's weak, inconsistent and contradictory testimony, how do We The People draw the conclusion that Clemens is less believable than McNamee.
There's only one conclusion you frighteningly draw:
"That's because they're all part of it. They're all pods, all of them!"
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Clemens is just as if not M... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Jones | February 13, 2008 9:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Clemens is just as if not MORE shaky... Not only is McNamee lying but so is Andy Pettitte? And now Clemens wife took HGH but he didn't? And he "happens" to have a golf receipt from 2001 to show he wasn't at a party? (no stranger than McNamee having syringes.) You really think everyone else is lying and has a vendetta against Clemens (including his best friend) but poor Rog is as pure as the driven snow?
1. Posted by Jones | February 13, 2008 9:33 PM |
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Posted on February 13, 2008 21:33
2. Posted by Peter F. | February 14, 2008 2:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
And he "happens" to have a golf receipt from 2001 to show he wasn't at a party?
And why on God's green earth would McNamee happen to have 6+ year old syringes and gauze...other than for extortion purposes? He "didn't want to get hurt"? My ass
And more importantly, I NEVER said/implied/insinuated that Roger was telling the truth. You leap to that assailable conclusion.
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2. Posted by Peter F. | February 14, 2008 2:54 AM |
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Posted on February 14, 2008 02:54
3. Posted by jess | February 14, 2008 9:15 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Such "hearings" are to allow MOC to "make points", never to actually "investigate". It's turned into more theatre than expected, I believe, bc of the Mitchell report.
You see, the MR got a lot of play in DC - seriously (quit laughing)- and was to be the centerpiece of questioning Clemens.
Congresscritters have staffers - and for the most part they do an excellent job of keeping their bosses from looking too silly, and in this case several staffers found big giant gaping holes in the MR (that's why the 1st hearing was cancelled, BTW). The line of thought then was along the lines of "lets go a month - by then, something ought've come out", but nothing (and I mean nothing) has to validate the MR.
So now, the date's arrived, there's no evidence, so the House is putting on a show that will prove nothing in a legal sense, and tarnishes all 3 parts some more.
All paid for by our taxes. Swell.
J
3. Posted by jess | February 14, 2008 9:15 AM |
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Posted on February 14, 2008 09:15
4. Posted by Steve Crickmore | February 14, 2008 10:12 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Congress has to step in because most major Ameerican sports are more interested in protecting drug cheats or coaching cheats and would rather have a white-wash or cover-up than have the image of their sport tarnished. At the same time as the owners and league officials want the privileges of anti-trust exemption theyare not concerned about the integrity of their sport so long as the public keeping buying tickets and watching it on television. Here is another example today why professional sport can't seem to police itself.
4. Posted by Steve Crickmore | February 14, 2008 10:12 AM |
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Posted on February 14, 2008 10:12
5. Posted by zak822 | February 15, 2008 3:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A rare voice of sanity in all this, for which I thank you!
I am amazed at how many people are ready to condemn Clemens on McNamee's say-so and nothing else.
Clemen's wife did it so he must have done it too? She puts on lipstick and skirts, so I guess Roger must be a cross-dresser.
A reputation has been destroyed, with the eager complicity of the sports media, based on the word of guy trying to avoid Federal time. McNamee needed a big name. He chose Clemens.
I'm not a baseball fan. I don't care if Roger goes to the Hall or not. I care a lot about wrecking peoples names like this.
5. Posted by zak822 | February 15, 2008 3:05 PM |
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Posted on February 15, 2008 15:05