Roger Clemens Hearing: Ten Things That Exasperated Me

I know everyone is sick of Roger Clemens, but I’ve run out of people to complain to and I am still frustrated. In a last ditch effort to rid myself of this negativity so I can embrace Spring Training with as much glee as an Orioles fan can muster, here are the 10 things that really got to me yesterday.

 

1. The Poster with Photos of Clemens

Virginia Foxx’s argument that, based on a random selection of undated photos, his body hasn’t changed, therefore he did not take steroids or HGH, was absolutely insane.

First of all, Clemens has changed. Be it because of steroids or simply the aging process, you can’t look at photos from him in his early days with the Red Sox and claim that he is just as slender and his neck is just as thin.

Second, if it were plausible to use photos shot at various angles in no particular order without dates as proof that Clemens is telling the truth, don’t you think he and his lawyers would have done that two months ago?

Her display was just one of many moments in which I was so embarrassed by what our elected officials are choosing spending their time on.

 

2. Canseco’s Party

I’m not sure why no one bothered to follow up when Clemens admitted that he may have actually gone to Canseco's. After dozens of questions, Clemens said he may have been at the house party to drop off his kids or for a brief stay after his round of golf.

McNamee is getting grilled for remembering this conversation, which Clemens says never happened. Finally he admits that maybe he was there, and no one says anything?

Also, isn't it entirely possible that those people who say he wasn’t there didn’t see him or were there at a different time? I’m confused as to why he was given the benefit of the doubt on this one.

 

3. The Nanny

I guess Clemens wants me to believe that Congress needed him to get a hold of the Nanny for them. I’m sure that Congress and the rest of the US Government has no means of finding out her name or address. Surely that is a power only Clemens was blessed with.

I don’t think Clemens did them a favor by finding her and then talking to her first. Maybe he was breaking no laws in doing so. Still, if he’s trying to play innocent, something that reeks of witness tampering does not help.

 

4. Partisanship

Is anyone else a little confused as to why every Republican was on Clemens’ side and every Democrat was against him? Is it because baseball owners are Republican donors or because Clemens is a good ol’ boy from Texas?

 

5. “It is what it is”

I wish McNamee were a tiny bit more articulate. Clearly many members of Congress could not understand why he would say he didn't want to hurt Clemens, yet then go and tell his story.

Obviously, it's because he was faced with jail time and wanted to tell the truth, but that's not the same thing as wanting to crucify Clemens. I don’t know that in his shoes I’d be ready to go to prison for someone else either.

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