What in the wide world of sports is this country coming to?
Sports on every channel: CNN, MSNBC, Fox News...heck, even C-SPAN!
Memo to C-SPAN: If I want to watch sports and sports news I have ESPN, Comcast Sports Net, the NFL Network, the NBA Network, the Golf Network, Versus, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, and ESPN News.
If I need to know who is and isn’t on steroids, I have the Mitchell Report, Jose Canseco’s book, and that book about Barry Bonds.
Of course, C-SPAN's coverage brings up another important question: What the hell are my elected representatives doing holding hearings (again!) on SPORTS?
When the stress caused by Kevin Garnett’s abdomen injury, the Patriots choking away the Super Bowl, Kobe Bryant’s finger keeping him out of the three-point shooting contest, and worrying whether or not Jason Kidd is going to kill Devean George gets to be too much, I like to calm down by tuning into C-SPAN and watching grumpy old men and women debate things that just don’t matter.
You know, things like healthcare, the Iraq war, taxes, the undervalued dollar, foreclosures, oil prices…the boring junk us Americans just don’t care about.
If this is so important, why don't we ask Clinton and Obama whether they believe McNamee or Clemens during the next presidential debate?
I repeat, what in God’s name is this country coming to?!
When in Rome, I guess…
If it’s important enough for Henry Waxman, I guess it’s important enough for Bleacher Report.
We can get into McNamee and how badly he came off, but frankly it’s not relevant to a sports-related discussion.
Suffice to say, McNamee is ruined. He admitted to not being completely truthful with investigators. He admitted to peddling illegal drugs. He admitted to lying to investigators on numerous occasions.
That said, where it was important, he ended up extremely credible. It was Clemens who, as the hearing went on, lost more and more of his credibility as his convoluted story came out.
McNamee claimed that he injected Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch, and Debbie Clemens with either HGH, steroids, or both. This is what Clemens would lead you to believe:
Clemens expects us to believe McNamee told the truth about everyone except for him.
Clemens expects us to believe that his wife, one day out of the blue, asked McNamee to inject her with HGH.
Clemens expects us to believe that he knew nothing about this.
He expects us to believe that his wife somehow knew McNamee could get HGH but her husband, who employed and spent a good deal of his life with him, didn’t.
He expects us to believe that Pettitte “mis-remembered” two separate conversations about Clemens’ HGH use.
He expects us to believe that an abscess that developed on his butt came from a B12 shot, even though B12 shots are not known to cause such things and steroids commonly do.
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