After listening to the debate and considering all the input from Congress, Clemens, McNamee, and every sports media outlet there is, I've formed a very simple opinion.
I finally believe Roger Clemens is guilty.
Clemens spent his time in front of Congress basically saying, "How can I prove a negative?" But the way he did it was very telling: yelling, screaming, kicking, pounding the table, and being generally giving the impression that "you need to listen to me because I'm Roger Clemens, dammit!"
The thing is, despite all the noise and all the distraction, what it came down to is him saying, "I have no proof at all. Just my loud, obnoxious words to hang your belief on."
He did his best David Copperfield, trying to keep us looking at one hand while he pulled a shiny and clean reputation out of his other sleeve. Problem is, yelling and screaming your opinion doesn't make it right. It just makes you loud.
I think a lot of people were hoping this hearing might bring some closure to the whole steroid era despite the fact that the Mitchell Report failed to do so. I'm not sure I buy that, but I do hope the story goes cold after this.
Maybe now we can get back to talking about the reason we're all here:
PLAY BALL!!!!!!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Roger's Disaster
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I came around to the same difficult decision as you did. I simply do not believe Clemens.
And, similarly, I feel bad for thinking he is guilty due to the absence of proof.
I think the story will have some legs as each player reports to camp who was cited in the Mitchell report and/or played with Clemens will be asked about it.
After that, and we get tot he first pitch, then I think the story goes cold.
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