I just saw that clip of the Clemens-McNamee taped phone call.
First, obviously Roger's people taped it. Otherwise he wouldn't have the tape to release.
Second, if Roger taped it, why was he behaving so bizarrely on it? Why was he telling McNamee "Just tell the truth." Wouldn't the innocent person be berating McNamee to stop lying about him?
But I don't want to take this too far. The tape means nothing. It doesn't make me either more likely or less likely to believe Roger.
The weight of the evidence so far is against Roger. George Mitchell and staff properly weighed the evidence. McNamee obviously supplied steroids and HGH, he injected Pettite with steroids, he injected Clemens with something, you put two and two together.
Pathetic old suckup Mike Wallace just ruined a 60-year career of being known as the man you'd least like to interview you by, through senility or hero worship, let Clemens off the hook. (Krieger in today's Rocky actually had the best take on it I've read so far.) Not even a "is it possible McNamee injected you with something other than B-12/lidocaine? Do you know for certain?
Because this is clearly Clemens' wiggle strategy. If he testifies to Congress under oath, the "I thought it was B-12" thing is his perjury protector.
Again, read the Mitchell report. The evidence is damning. McNamee is a self-serving idiot too (with this "I'll sue you for defamation" crap ... yeah, Roger is destroying the pristine reputation of a drug dealer. Big damages there. I think he just wants to write a book nobody will read.)
The real scandal here is the one nobody is focusing on: at the peak of the Steroid Era, a number of MLB clubs either had drug dealers on their payroll under the cover of "personal trainers" or some such thing. Some that didn't openly permitted drug dealers to hang around the clubhouse as if they were official employees (Greg Anderson). It's time to take some action against those clubs, isn't it Bud? Or does that hit too close to home?
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