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Roger Clemens Takes to the Net to Battle Steroid Accusations
After a week of virtual silence after the release of the Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens has been all over the the place denying the accusations in the report. He's now taking the Barry Bonds route, skipping the media and releasing things directly on to the internet.
Like lots of people, I've poked my share of fun at Clemens since the release of the Mitchell Report. Despite all that, I'll certainly admit there are some problems with the way the Report was compiled and the evidence against Clemens probably isn't nearly as damning as it seems to be at first glance. Did he do steroids? I don't know for sure, but I do know that if he did even once, he's making his road to forgiveness a lot harder with all of the denying he's doing.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
12-23-2007 @ 3:12PM
SAM said...
innocent until proven guilty.BOSTON FANS and curt get over it sam
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12-23-2007 @ 4:11PM
RAVNSFAN said...
Sit Down With Mike Walace And Take a Polygraph Test Mr. Clemens
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12-23-2007 @ 6:34PM
ron said...
Roger, just ride off into the sunset with your millions. You are the person that has to live with the fact that your mother brought you up better than this and that you set a sorry standard for your children to live with.
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12-23-2007 @ 6:35PM
bill said...
Start rehearsing now Roidket. Remember how Wallace made Jerry Tark look. Make sure you scrip the questions carefully.
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12-23-2007 @ 6:59PM
numba1stunna74x said...
i believe Roger 100% he didnt use shit. i have used both steroids and hgh and will tell u right now he doesnt resemble anyone that has ever done hgh.. he's innocent..barry bonds on the other hand he has done hgh its obvious.. i say legalize hgh and make steroids illegal.. hgh is good for u.. as for skirt schilling..kill yourself homo.. go beat ur wife up some more.. ur mad cuz she was an MLB whore b4 u married it after everyone tapped it..now go take care of ur drouping turkey neck u fat slob
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12-23-2007 @ 7:23PM
sdf said...
The "road to forgiveness" is a bunch of moralistic BS, Mr. Blogger.
In the marathon - a sport that has a drug policy - the fan favorite, a woman, failed an out-of-competition drug test at her home in Colorado and was suspended for two years, after which time she could return to the sport. A well-respected female track star tested for an abnormally high T/E ratio, but on appeal her suspension was reduced.
The Mitchell Report, like most of the BALCO prosecutions is based on an Orwellian standard called the "non-analytical positive" or circumstantial evidence.
The government and Selig are going after two stars - Bonds and Clemens - the philosphy being that taking down big name players is the best form of deterrent and by taking players at the end of their careers they don't risk any opposition from the team owner, who, let's face it, are more powerful than Selig. The Orioles, for example, are not going to take any #### from Selig/Mitchell without a fight:
“The Orioles caution observers to resist the temptation to accept collective judgments based on unsubstantiated allegations,” the statement read. “The Orioles further believe that each Major League player must be treated on an individual basis, must not be judged responsible by mere association, and is innocent of any improper conduct until proven otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The country is still in Whitewater mode, where a crook named David Hale, in order to cover his own ###, made some unfounded allegations about a failed real estate investment by the Clintons. When the prosector Robert Fiske found nothing illegal, the Clintons' political opponents got a three-judge panel to appoint Ken Starr because Fiske had been appointed by Janet Reno. Then Whitewater became a fishing expedition for a sadistic Republican congress, many of whom were doing the same thing as Clinton (two hypocritical Republican Speakers of the House, Newt Gingrich and Robert Livingstone, were even forced to resign). Travelgate, Troopergate, Vincent Foster's death, Paula Jones, Larry Klayman and "Judicial Watch," the Rose law firm billing records, the prosecution of Susan McDougal and Webb Hubbel, and on and on.
Kevin Ryan, who Washington opposed because he offered immunity to 30 athletes and was either not ready or unwilling to prosecute Bonds, was dismissed by scandal-plagued former chief law enforcement officer of the US, just like Robert Fiske.
The "road to forgiveness." ROFLMAO!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/17/MNGG0QG5N51.DTL&type=printable
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12-24-2007 @ 1:42AM
JIMBO said...
Yes, Mr. Clemons - submit to a polygraph test, if you dare. What are you afraid of?
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12-24-2007 @ 7:10AM
AuntBuzzed said...
I really don't believe you.....if you are so innocent as you
say. Then take a polograph test and a little of your blood.
It's time to man up Roger !
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12-24-2007 @ 7:24AM
tpatsfan4sure said...
Agree, Innocent until proven guilty. I am not a fan of Clemens even when he played for the Sox (which I am an absolute fan of). I do tend to believe that he is telling the truth and that he did not do what he is accused of. While he was an awesome pitcher that deserved his Cy Young awards, I do think he is rather arrogant and demanding. I hope he is able to clear his name, if proven innocent...It's a shame what has happened in the MLB...hopefully the young guys don't tarnish themselves in this stuff!
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12-24-2007 @ 9:15AM
Moonshine Mike said...
I've taken polygraphs. They are easy to fake if you are taking it and they are easy to screw up on the giver's side.
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12-24-2007 @ 12:39PM
numba1stunna74x said...
a polygraph test for juice?? are u serious?? u peopel take things way too far.. its steroids and hgh give me a break..it wouldn't have an signs of ever being in his system at this point even if they did draw blood.. good luck tryinmg to test for hgh lol thats a joke.
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12-24-2007 @ 12:52PM
Livin' Large said...
I believe 100% he did use. So what, we can't change what has been done, just let him live with it. Let me ask this question, what did this man that supposedly injected Roger have to gain by an admission...besides alot of grief and pissed-off fans. Oh, nice call-out Curt!!!
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12-24-2007 @ 1:49PM
J said...
Am I the only one that's noticed Clemens has skipped spring training since mandatory testing was implemented? He's been skating free for years while Bonds has worn the bullseye. Nobody has ever called him on anything he's said or done. For example: the 2000 world series bat throwing incident. Roger's story (stated through Joe Torre, not Roger himself) was that he thought the bat was the ball. HUH? How come nobody ever asked "If Roger thought the bat was the ball, why did he throw it at the RUNNER? Why didn't he turn and throw it to Tino Martinez at first base?"
Go back and look at Clemens body in the 1986 World Series compared to later in his career. His physical change is as pronounced as Barry's.
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12-24-2007 @ 2:13PM
kari_rock said...
I am so pissed off as a houstonian and a deer parkian. I absolutely believe that Roger Clemens is 100% telling the truth and whatever they (him and Andy Pettite) may or may not have done, that they are the true players for the love of the game that would defend or own up or whatever to these career changing alligations. (sic) I was watching ESPN just now and they were saying that Roger's video denying the charges were not enough. And that until he showed up at a hearing with lawyers that anything he said was nothing to be considered truthful. I am no lawyer and I am sure he has a top notch team of legal people an publicists....what else is he supposed to do? How do you disprove something that can't be proved? I am so sorry for Roger and his family and all of the players that are enduring this fiasco. YOU DO HAVE FANS AND I WISH YOU THE BEST ROGER!
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12-24-2007 @ 3:48PM
triple t said...
NUMBA ONE STUNNA, YOU AND ROCKETROID HAVE A LOT IN COMMON: THE ABILITY TO LIE AND NOT BLINK AND ARE STEROID FREAKS. NOLAN RYAN WAS THE ONLY FREAK I EVER SAW THAT "NEVER" TOOK ROIDS- ONLY A CHEW OF TOBACCO AND BACK TO HIS FARM IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND GOT BETTER AS HE GOT OLDER BUT LISTEN STUNNA AND LEARN THIS: BONDS AND ROCKETROID WHO ARE BOTH LIARS STARTED TO FALTER IN THEIR OLD AGE, HIT THE ROIDS' AND GOT SUPERHUNMAN AFTER THEIR STATISTICAL DECLINES, YET THE RYAN EXPRESS NEVER FALTERED AND RECOUPED LIKE THESE TWO CHARLETANS! REMEMBER THIS OLD BOY-STATS NEVER LIE!
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12-24-2007 @ 9:34PM
numba1stunna74x said...
HEY TRIPPLE T U ARE A DUMBASS AND OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT HGH OR STEROIDS.. WHY DONT U GO DO SOME RESEARCH THEN RUN UR MOUTH U LIL FREAK..I'M DONE EXPLAINING THINGS TO ANAL IDIOTS THAT HAVE NO CLUE.
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12-24-2007 @ 10:34PM
nickstoli said...
Rocket must've covered his tracks good. He better hope it's just his word against McNamee's. If other guys can back up McNamee, Rocket's dead meat.
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12-25-2007 @ 6:41PM
Richard Sanders said...
umm Nolan Ryan lives in Texas....and, the sad part about this is that 90% of you have already made up your mind about this and it will not be changed either way. The real crime in all of this is that everyone is treating Roger in a way that they themselves would feel is wrong and unjust.
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12-26-2007 @ 9:44AM
R Newman said...
This is bad for baseball, I'm sure Mitchell wrote as he was told in sworn testmony. Can't figure out if the Rocket deserves inocent until proven, as a mantra, given the entire circumstances.
Surely, we(The American Sports Fans) must give him and the others, the chance to defend themselves as we would expect for ourselves, if the tables were reversed. We also must remember that championship athletes are held to a higher standard, wheather they or anyone else likes it or not. (Goes with the territory just like the money)
Roger, Baseball is special and if you want to defend your position your entitled and I encourage you to do so BUT ONLY IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH.
If you are not even sure that you MAY have taken something, just state so. Remember HGH was the medication of the day when injurys occured and no one thought they were unexceptable at that time.
This as far as I am conscerned is not about catching cheaters,and surely some deserve to be exposed. It is about the future of Baseball and the purity of how it is percieved. It is about playing on an even field. It's about several generation's of young people who might think it is OK to take any advantage they can in order to win.
Let's clean this up and "Play Ball."
Bob Newman
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12-26-2007 @ 9:16PM
terpsez11 said...
road to forgiveness..give me a break..Red Sox fans are really hard to take...the finger-pointing and way they have trashed the entire sport is classless at best.
the scorn they have heaped on Clemens is no secret..I bet Roger could care less what Bosox fans think..but is out to appeal to the sensible less invested fans of the Sport.
Again I must make this colloquial challenge to anyone with that upper-caste phony personna that goes with the card-carrying membership of "Red Sox Nation"
to explain to me why the Police Report regarding a Red Sox Clubhouse employee actually in a Police Report for the possession of both Steroids and Syringes did not result in a branched tree of inquisition and innuendo into the Police's discovery?
to value the word of a Trainer ready to cash in on a book deal like that moron Conseco..or at least the circuit regarding the testimony made under threat by Mitchell and Boston Federal Prosecutors
who have conspired to purposely downplay the only incident where an actual Major League club has gone to lengths to pull a Nixonian cover-up is abject arrogance.
e-mail me:
terpsez11@yahoo.com
if I am wrong I'll shut up..if not you will never be able to submit a Boston opinion regarding doping without hearing my position
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