Comments on: Congressman Elijah Cummings Crushed Roger Clemens, Made Sense

By: Roger Clemens Appearing at a Minor League Park Near You | Larry Brown Sports

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:51:14 +0000

[...] haven’t heard much from Mr. Mis-Remember since his fated day in front of the investigation committee. Now it looks like Roger Clemens is slowly coming out of his cage, showing up at a minor league [...]

By: Frank Thomas Did Not do Steroids or HGH | Larry Brown Sports

Frank Thomas Did Not do Steroids or HGH | Larry Brown Sports — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:41:01 +0000

[...] the Mitchell Report out and much of the congressional hearings over, it has come to our attention that Blue Jays DH Frank Thomas was the only active player to speak to [...]

By: Andy Pettitte Makes You Forgive Him for Using HGH | Larry Brown Sports

Andy Pettitte Makes You Forgive Him for Using HGH | Larry Brown Sports — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:59:17 +0000

[...] role in this whole Roger Clemens/Brian McNamee fiasco. Congressman Elijah Cummings said Pettitte seemed to be the most believable character of those who spoke to Congress. People seem to think he did something great. Matt Watson nailed it [...]

By: Larry Brown

Larry Brown — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:27:49 +0000

Jeff,
There are tons of players left out and the focus is unfortunately on a few certain ones. The benefit is after seeing all the scrutiny these players have gone through, maybe more in the future will be deterred from using. And I wouldn’t call myself guilty for supporting the sport; I never said the players should have cheated the game, and I really was skeptical of the power game all along.

By: SpinMax

SpinMax — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:27:32 +0000

Funny how with Clemens crystal clear memory he can claim Pettitte misremembers a conversation in 1999…but when Pettitte also brings up a conversation from only a couple years ago about ‘what to say if asked if they used drugs’ Clemens is the one who says he doesn’t remember it.

By: blackjack

blackjack — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:41:10 +0000

LOL! seriously bro, you write the best freakin’ headlines.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:44:07 +0000

The bottom line, its all words at this point. Yes Macnamee has the needles, but it would be hard to admit those as evidence since they could easily have been tainted over the last 6 or 7 years, so lets get down to brass taxes. There is no hard evidence, its all gonna be he said, he said. I don’t think you can charge anyone a crime of perjury based on words and I think Clemens knows this. Unless a video of Clemens doing the HGH surfaces he’s gonna be in the clear, at least in a criminal court. In the court of public opinion, he’s gonna be considered guilty for the rest of his life.

What I wanna know is why all the owners of baseball and the heads of the players union aren’t being more heavily scrutinized. They are the ultimate ones to blame here, letting this go on for way too long. Also, this damn Mitchell report. Everyone is focusing on this report. There are many players that did HGH and steroids that weren’t named in this report, and its crazy that they are off the hook, just because they weren’t named in the report because the report took testimony from just one guy….Macnamee.

And aren’t we all a little guilty as well. We all went to baseball games, supported the sport when we knew this was all going on. Anyone who spent 1 dollar on baseball over the last 10 years, anyone who got excited and caught up in the race to 70 back with McGuire and Sosa should take some of the blame as well, myself included.

By: DNR87 Dee

DNR87 Dee — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:30:06 +0000

Sounds like I’m not the only one to think Roger has gone the wrong route.

Pettitte, Knoblauch, they’re REAL men to me! Admit when you’ve made a mistake, and move on…. learn from it.

I called it on my Blog even before yesterday. Watching him make a fool of himself yesterday, not to mention that he was UNDER OATH, was truly nauseating!

By: JEWCY

JEWCY — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:51:05 +0000

LB,

excellent article and take

-jewcy

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:07:20 +0000

First, let me say that i think Clemens use HGH and steroids.

Here’s my problem with Clemens saying that Andy “misheard” or misremembered”. Him and Andy are supposed to be very close professionally, which Clemens admitted to. Now if they were close, even if just professionally, why would Andy say the converstation went the way it did. More specifically, why would he say in the second convo “I said ‘oh’. Not that I believed him I just didn’t want to argue with him’. Now if they were close, and Andy had any doubt at all that Clemens said what he said than i would assume being his friend Andy would say something like “i said ‘oh’ and at that point i thought maybe i did misunderstand the previous converstation.” But he didn’t say that, which I take as he remembered both convos clearly and accurately. You don’t take such an affirmative stance if you’re unsure, especially against a friend, even if the relationship is jsut professional.