A Word On Clemens
The Rocket certainly sounds righteous in his statement, defending himself and chastising the court of public opinion- "I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt...."
It all sounds good but it doesn't erase the fact that Clemens had a chance to talk to Mitchell and didn't. On page 175 of the report, Mitchell documents how he asked Clemens to talk to him about the allegations against him and Clemens refused his invitation.
Now, that alone doesn't make Clemens guilty, but instead of issuing statements, how about Roger stands up himself and tells us he is innocent? How about he explains how his name ended up in that report and why he didn't chose to do anything about it until now? Until then, I don't want to read anymore statements.
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Same with all the players though, no one went on the record. Did some talk anonymously? I thought I read that. I believe that some one gave Mitchell a lot of information, but wouldn't go on the record. I think that's why he went with hearsay in some instances, because he had corroboration from a "shadow source" a la Donald Southerland in JFK. Just a theory.
Posted by: Grant | December 19, 2007 11:21 AM |
Actually, Clemens made a statement of innocence on the day the Mitchell Report was released. Oh, and he certainly wasn't alone in not talking to Mitchell. Nobody else did, either, save for one player.
Posted by: Doug | December 19, 2007 11:54 AM |
He's guilty as sin.
Posted by: Corey | December 19, 2007 03:54 PM |
Corey -
he may be guilty as Pettitte
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December 19, 2007 06:10 PM
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This is BS. Maybe I'm biased about this but this hearsay and accusation stuff is too much. He owes ZERO explanation to offer one invites merely more accusations. Schilling wrote that it was up to Clemens to clear his name. That is 100% entirely backward. It is up to the accuser to present a clear and beyond a shadow of a doubt case and the prosecutor has cirumstantial evidence at best. In the court of public opinion, Clemens has every rigth to say BS. They want to take away his Cy Youngs, prove he did it. This whole thing is a witch hunt. Maybe all the people listed did 3 cycles of roids a year, maybe they did two days of HGH, maybe they are 100% innocent. Maybe everyone in the league fell under that category, in the end, teh Mitchell report was the opportunity for baseball to move forward but all it did was make unsubstantiated claims about the past. Boo on baseball and boo on the report. On with 2008, I'm tired of this......[swig beer]
Posted by: tim | December 19, 2007 11:52 PM |
I just got this image in an email, don't know who to give credit to so I pass it along with thanks to whomever originated it.
Posted by: blmeanie | December 20, 2007 01:40 PM |