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 Roger Clemens broke his silence this afternoon about his naming being included in The Mitchell Report:
"I want to state clearly and without qualification: I did not
take steroids, human growth hormone or any other banned substances
at any time in my baseball career or, in fact, my entire life,''
Clemens said Tuesday in a statement issued through his agent, Randy
Hendricks. "Those substances represent a dangerous and destructive
shortcut that no athlete should ever take. "I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have
apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand
that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I
plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate
time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people
not rush to judgment.''
Well, I guess now the game officially begins. I'm kind of curious when this 'appropriate time and appropriate place' will happen, but my guess is that we'll have to be very patient. At least now we have a statement from Clemens denying his use instead of a wall of silence from him. I think that if Clemens truly believed that The Mitchell Report was wrong then he would have no problem suing, and winning a case against his former trainer, Brian McNamee. For a player who is concerned about his legacy, this is probably his only choice if he wants to clear his name.
*I apologize for my absence today as it was brought on my a case of food poisoning. More on that tomorrow, maybe.
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Didn't Clemens have the chance to answer all those questions raised in the Mitchell Report when Mitchell was actually conducting the investigation? Seems like that might have been the "appropriate time in the appropriate way."
There's no way any sane individually was going to walk into that room to be questioned by Mitchell without being forced to do so. Mitchell wasn't telling guys what he wanted to talk to them about, what evidence he had, what kind of charges they'd be facing. Not talking to him is not an admission of guilt.
That being said, this statement is more bullshit from Clemens. He used, no doubt about it in my mind.
Digging up some pretty interesting info about HGH....I think that you will all be pleased...depending on how much motivation I have, I may get something down this evening...
My understanding was that Mitchell invited every MLB player to talk to him, whether they were in the report or not. Those that were in the report were, supposedly, going to be told what Mitchell had on them and given a chance to respond. Whether or not that's true is hard to tell.
It would have been interesting had 30-40 MLB players were interviewed by Mitchell and said, "Yeah, I saw/heard nothing. I know no one who did it."