The Clemens Hearing Thread

[Mackus]

Is this streaming anywhere?

Edit: CNN has it.

[AgentOrange]

Haha. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

I will tell you that Clemens is one of the nicest guys off the field that I have heard about.

I listen to MLB Homeplate on XM and the stories that people are saying about RC helping their son's and giving back so much to the youth is unreal.

When he was in the Minor leagues, he would buy breakfast, lunch and dinner for everyone, including the staff (towel guys, janitors, bat boys). He also would give instruction to anyone that wanted it and was always around to help out, never turned away from people.

There must have been 5-6 callers with that type of story and even Dibble and Kennedy were giving their stories as well. This was when all of this first happened.

So I believe that RC really is a very nice guy and gives back to the game of baseball.

It appears he has lied, and at the wrong time to the wrong people. We shall see what happens.

[DuffMan]

I like the fact that Elijah Cummings of MD who's District includes Baltimore is on this committee grilling Clemens. Grill him good Elijah for us O's fans!!

[DuffMan]

I will tell you that Clemens is one of the nicest guys off the field that I have heard about.

I listen to MLB Homeplate on XM and the stories that people are saying about RC helping their son's and giving back so much to the youth is unreal.

When he was in the Minor leagues, he would buy breakfast, lunch and dinner for everyone, including the staff (towel guys, janitors, bat boys). He also would give instruction to anyone that wanted it and was always around to help out, never turned away from people.

There must have been 5-6 callers with that type of story and even Dibble and Kennedy were giving their stories as well. This was when all of this first happened.

So I believe that RC really is a very nice guy and gives back to the game of baseball.

It appears he has lied, and at the wrong time to the wrong people. We shall see what happens.

I didn't know that. It's funny how stuff like that with players who are disliked gets less publicity. I know some other "bad" players have done stuff like that, T.O. comes to mind.

[MyBloodIsOrange]

This isn't a well put together post, but---Clemens is screwed...

[Flip217]

Yikes! They're bringing up the inconsistencies in Clemens' testimony now -- he's looking a lil' bit flustered...

[Mackus]

Looks like both McNamee and Clemens have some inconsistencies.

McNamee keeping the gauze pads seems a bit creepy to me though.

[Flip217]

Congressman: "You want us to believe you learned your wife was injected with HGH without your knowledge, that she said she felt she had circulation problems immediately afterward, you searched McNamee's luggage for additional drugs, but you never bothered to learn about HGH?"

Clemens: "That's right. I don't know much about HGH at all..."

(I did my best to transcribe this...not word for word....)

[RShack]

Dan Burton sure managed to make a fuss about things that really don't matter... except when he was repeating what other guys already asked...

[jincargo]

I cannot figure out why that one fella understand why McNamee would keep the evidence. If you are doing something illegal and you have a feeling that you are going to be caught...you have to protect yourself.

Yeah...it's a crappy thing to do to someone you consided a friend...but it's not totally uncommon either.

[Mackus]

McNamee getting b****-slapped right now.

[Flip217]

This congressman is goofy...he's getting McNamee to admit to lying about this whole thing, but it's obvious he was covering his a$$, Clemens' a$$, Petite's a$$...bit of showboating, I think....

[RShack]

I cannot figure out why that one fella understand why McNamee would keep the evidence. If you are doing something illegal and you have a feeling that you are going to be caught...you have to protect yourself.

Yeah...it's a crappy thing to do to someone you consided a friend...but it's not totally uncommon either.

The guy's an ex-cop, he knows about how "evidence" must be handled. At the very least, I would've expected that he would have had some buddy ex-cop stash it in the evidence room somewhere right away, just for appearances' sake... keeping it in a beer can in his basement? That seems kinda silly to me.

I have no dog in this fight. I don't know who's wrong. Maybe both of them, for all I know. But Dan Burton is making it clear that he's Roger's homeboy...

[Flip217]

Congressman to McNamee: "You've lied and lied and lied and lied...how does Clemens get his reputation back?"

But doesn't Petite's testimony back up McNamee?

EDIT: It was his affidavit that said Roger spoke to him about using HGH

[The Rick]

The senator from Indiana was and still is obviously a Clemens fan. What a fool. Things like this aren't just black and white.