Roger Clemens testified before Congress today that the only injections he received from Brian McNamee, his former trainer, were the vitamin B-12 or the pain reliever Lidocaine. McNamee, on the other hand, insisted before a House panel that that he injected Clemens with only testosterone, the steroid Winstrol or human growth hormone. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, stated the obvious by saying, “Someone isn’t telling the truth.”
McNamee’s allegations originally surfaced in ex-Senator George Mitchell’s report to Congress on the state of steroids in Major League Baseball. Also named in the report, from McNamee’s allegations, were Clemens’s former teammates, Chuck Knoblauch and Andy Pettitte. Both Pettitte and Knoblauch have acknowledged that the allegations about them were true.
Pettitte, Clemens’s good friend, who has played with him since 1999 for either the New York Yankees or Houston Astros, weakened Clemens’s credibility by testifying about a time several years ago that he recalled that Roger mentioned taking human growth hormone. Clemens dismissed Pettitte’s testimony saying he must have misheard the remark.
Mike said,
May 1, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I like this blog, well-written. I agreed before the season about the Tigers, I’m wondering right now though. But the division is weaker than it has been in recent years.
Mike
Farhan said,
November 24, 2015 at 4:36 pm
I had a conversation about this with some co-workers of mine. I said I hope the go after Clemens and the rest with the same vigor as Bonds. But the alsomt complete consensus was But Bonds is a prick’. I kinda just chuckled and responded and? that has nothing to do with anything’. I find it so obviously hilarious that so many have bought into this idea that Bonds is a bad guy, while people completely give a pass to another star athlete who is in actually a bit of a worse predicament, but he’s viewed as ok.. oh and he just happens to be a white dude. I think I’m going to start grouping white players together so people can hear how ridiculous sounds.. See, Clemens is yet ANOTHER example of how caucasians are destroying the game!’. I think that would be a bit of a conversation starter