Mike Wallace to interview Roger Clemens for 60 minutes
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Thankfully Wallace is not someone like Larry King so we probably won't get hit with softball questions but go right into the the specific times and dates of the Mitchell report and the injection thing.
Thankfully Wallace is not someone like Larry King so we probably won't get hit with softball questions but go right into the the specific times and dates of the Mitchell report and the injection thing.
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If Clemens really wants to clear his name, he'll file a lawsuit. I'm not holding my breath.
From the day Clemens "allegedly" took his first steroids, he probably "thought" this day could be coming when he could get caught, and an interview like this could happen, and so he's had years to, in his mind, work on some sort of denial speech....again...he should take a live polygraph test...but of course he won't.
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<< <i>Well, we've seen this before with some accused people being interviewed and trying to BS the public. Unless, it's a live polygraph test, it'll mean nothing to me as far as truth or innocence...because some people are skilled liars, especially those who are used to being in front of cameras, and are used to being interviewed, and even an "expert" can't tell if they're lying or not without the polygraph.
From the day Clemens "allegedly" took his first steroids, he probably "thought" this day could be coming when he could get caught, and an interview like this could happen, and so he's had years to, in his mind, work on some sort of denial speech....again...he should take a live polygraph test...but of course he won't.
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Clemens cant win no matter what he says. I personally think the Mitchell report blows. If youre going to spend untold millions on a witch hunt atleast have something in stone. As is, the feds basically cornered a trainer and said cough up some big names or face jail time.
Clemens has been in the public eye since 1985. His personality, stats, record, family life, all documented. I know nothing about the guy who ratted. Is he a stand up guy? Is he a thug? Did he have an agenda or did he give them the names they were looking for? Maybe the trainer needs to take the polygraph as well.
The report desperately needed a name like Clemens. If Mitchell hit live television after 18 months with only names like Ron Villone and Larry Bigbie we would all be laughing.
i disagree, and i think that there are names, prominent names that are missing.
We still havent seen the whole picture and the sooner these clowns get their act together the better.
Polygraph??? Please, gimme a break. I could beat that machine with my eyes closed and two hands tied behind my back with a gun being pointed at me.
The only recourse for Roger is a lawsuit and nothing else. Question is, does he want to open himself up, or tell what he really knows of other players using. Example--No one, and i mean NO ONE, has sued Jose Canseco as of today for anything written in his book. So you can hype any scenario you like, the ballplayers are all just hoping we as fans will just forget.
Moral Question--what is worse? Pete Rose betting on baseball and lying about it, or Barry Bonds cheating the game of baseball and lying about it? If they allow Barry to enter and not Pete Rose, Then IMO baseball as a whole is joke.
"Man, if i did steriods, i would have had 5,000 hits!!!" Pete Rose
<< <i>Moral Question--what is worse? Pete Rose betting on baseball and lying about it, or Barry Bonds cheating the game of baseball and lying about it? If they allow Barry to enter and not Pete Rose, Then IMO baseball as a whole is joke. >>
As far as morals go I have no clue. As far as cheating the game it is very clear that baseball was always against gambling, but for a long time MLB, the media and the fans were actively encouraging steroids. In a lot of ways Mark McGwire is looking very good. In 1998 he did what every one -- including Hall-of-Fave voters -- asked him to do. Then when people changed their opinions on drug use instead of beating his chest on primetime TV he simply stepped aside. I wish Clemens would do that, let history speak for itself
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but for a long time MLB, the media and the fans were actively encouraging steroids. In a lot of ways Mark McGwire is looking very good. In 1998 he did what every one -- including Hall-of-Fave voters -- asked him to do >>
Wha????? Listen, I've been following the game a looooong time, and I've NEVER heard ANYONE encourage players to do steroids. And McGwire looking good? Compared to who, Ted Bundy? I think you and I may be from 2 different planets, because on mine in 1998 no one was asking McGwire (or anyone for that matter) to do steroids, certainly not HOF voters. In fact I recall a not-so-minor controversy when a legal suppliment Androstien was discovered in McGwire's locker.
<< <i>I don't think he meant they were telling players 'do steroids', but with as much looking away as the owners, management, and the commissioner did in seeing these guys come to training camp 20, 30 lbs. of pure muscle, no one said anything. >>
OK, now that is something I can agree with. For the record, I feel Selig & the owners & others at the top are just as much to blame as Bonds, McGwire, Clemens et al.
....however,it is not complete---but that does not make it wrong or non-factual....
secondly....there is NO WAY IN HELL Bonds, MgGwire, Clemens will get into the Hall.......i wouldnt be surprised if selig put them on the "not eligibile list " with pete rose......Selig has held strong on his position against Pete Rose and he will use his influence to keep the roids boys out--especially since the roids wnet on in his term and HE basicaly commishioned the Mitchell report...
<< <i>first off...the witnesses were told that if they were caught lying about anytinng, they would face BIG trouble...when you make an agreement with the federal government, you spill your guts--you dont make stuff up for a personal agenda....all the stuff in the Mitchell report is true, as much as we would like not to believe it... >>
Bonds had immunity and look what happened to him.
Oh and as a side note, Clemens hired a law firm to research the Mitchell report. People asked him to make a public statement, which he did. Then they say that's not good enough and ask why he hasn't hired a lawyer? Well, again he did. Our society has become so ADD in which everything has to be ready yesterday.
Don't get me wrong, Clemens could have used. However, he's doing everything to clear (no pun intended) his name.
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Report: Clemens' attorney launches probe; Rocket to talk to reporters
ESPN.com news services
Updated: December 26, 2007, 2:28 PM ET
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Roger Clemens' lead attorney told The New York Times that his firm is launching its own investigation into allegations the seven-time Cy Young winner used steroids and human growth hormone.
"We are convinced the conclusions in Mitchell's report are wrong and are investigating the findings ourselves," Rusty Hardin told The Times. "At this stage we have uncovered a lot of logical people who we thought Mitchell was going to talk to but never talked to him or his investigators. That's troubling."
Hardin declined to tell The Times the names of the individuals he was referring to.
Clemens will tell his side of the story in a CBS "60 Minutes" interview with Mike Wallace that will air Jan. 6. Hardin told The Times that Clemens will answer other reporters' questions after that interview.
"After 60 Minutes airs he will be sitting down to answer questions directly to members of the media," Hardin told the newspaper. "We haven't figured out where it will happen but he will answer questions that night."
Clemens was the biggest name in the report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell that detailed the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
The Rocket's last four Cy Young Awards came in 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2004. Many of the allegations against Clemens in the Mitchell report came from former trainer Brian McNamee, though none pertain to 1997 or 2004. Mitchell wrote McNamee said he injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while with the Toronto Blue Jays, and steroids and HGH in 2000 and 2001, while with the New York Yankees.
Clemens also defended himself against the Mitchell report accusations in a video posted on his official Web site Sunday.
"Let me be clear: The answer is no, I did not use steroids, human growth hormone, and I've never done so. I did not provide Brian McNamee with any drugs to inject into my body. Brian McNamee did not inject steroids or human growth hormone into my body, either when I played in Toronto for the Blue Jays, or the New York Yankees. This report is simply not true," Clemens said in the videotaped statement.
Another former McNamee client, Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, said recently that he took HGH twice while rehabbing from an injury in 2002. Mitchell said McNamee told him he injected Pettitte with HGH two-to-four times that year.
"He stands 100 percent behind the accuracy of the information he provided to Sen. Mitchell," McNamee's lawyer, Ed Ward, said in a recent statement.
Ward told The New York Daily News for Monday's editions that McNamee would be willing to one day sit down with Clemens and explain his side of the story.
"Brian would be open to it, certainly," Ward told the newspaper. "I don't know if Roger would. But Brian would be open to it because he knows what he's been saying all along is honest and truthful and he'd want Roger to understand he was obligated to tell the truth.
"The bottom line is he did not want to implicate a friend and a baseball icon in a steroid scandal," Ward added. "He was asked to tell the truth and he has. That's always been his position since Day 1."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
<< <i>So what stown, how many years passed and how many tv appearances did Marion Jones make before she came clean. >>
Touche'
But she did she hire a Lawyer?
Seriously, I don't know.
Sound eerily familiar?msnbc
<< <i>But Jones vehemently denied all doping allegations, even issuing this emphatic declaration in 2004: “I have never, ever used performance-enhancing drugs.” She also sued BALCO founder Victor Conte after he repeatedly accused Jones of using performance-enhancing drugs and said he watched her inject herself.
Sound eerily familiar?msnbc >>
I remember all of that.
Just curious if she hired a lawyer, that's all.
<< <i>I am assuming that if she sued Balco as stated in my post that she had hired a lawyer to do that.
Sorry, just read the 1st page.
I think this is on a different scale but it's the same concept.
It seems more plausible that Brian the trainer told the truth than some kind of conspiracy being mounted on Clemens.
Sure, Brian McNamee has incentive to be truthful, but that does not mean he actually was. Why couldn't his story corroborate with a couple other witnesses to make it credible. It bothers me that there were no other witnesses.
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In Clemens case, a stitch in time could have saved nine. Didn't want to talk to Mitchell before - now accused he wants to talk to everyone? Let him talk before congress or a grand jury - where perjury means something. He won't be the first to lie on 60 minutes.
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<< <i>Hiring a lawyer doesn't prove innocence, or even hint at innocence. >>
Agreed 100%
I'm not as eloquent as others here, so my point may have been lost.
Everyone was saying if he was innocent, why didn't he make a public statement? After his statement, people were saying that wasn't good enough; how come he didn't hire a lawyer? Again, he did yet still, wasn't enough.
Trust me, I resent Clemens just like all of the other fans he bailed on. However, for him to be persecuted by the public based upon a "he said / she said" and zero soild, direct evidence just appears to be a tad too much, IMO.
I'm not proclaiming him to be innocent, he very well could have used. However, I'm not going to proclaim him to be guilty either.
NY Daily News:
Brian McNamee's attorney says that if Roger Clemens' legal team decides to throw a high, hard one in the form of a lawsuit at the Rocket's former trainer, it would amount to "frivolous" litigation. In the wake of the announcement this week by Rusty Hardin, Clemens' attorney, that he would form an investigative team to challenge the credibility of McNamee's testimony in the Mitchell Report, Earl Ward said he is not concerned with the legal heat coming from the seven-time Cy Young winner's circle. "In the event there's a lawsuit, we've planned for that," Ward, who represents McNamee, told the Daily News.
<< <i>Moral Question--what is worse? Pete Rose betting on baseball and lying about it, or Barry Bonds cheating the game of baseball and lying about it? If they allow Barry to enter and not Pete Rose, Then IMO baseball as a whole is joke.
"Man, if i did steriods, i would have had 5,000 hits!!!" Pete Rose >>
In my opinion, betting on sports while you are a player or a manager is worse than taking performance enhancing drugs. As a fan, I want to believe that the guys on my team care about winning as much as I do. But when they bet on their own games, I can no longer believe that we share that as a goal. I don't mean to condone using PEDs at all, but according to my moral code, at least they are trying to improve their team's chances and that makes it better than gambling on the game even though it is still wrong.