Little Known News Item for Wednesday, February 13

You might not have known this or heard anything about this over the recent weeks, but Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee are testifying in front of Congress' House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday regarding the possibility that Clemens took steroids during his playing career and those steroids were administered by McNamee.

AND YES I'M OVERSTATING THE OBVIOUS AND BEING COMPLETELY FASICIOUS.

After two months of back and forth he said/he said, we'll finally be able to pull back the curtain and see the wizard. The wizard will rear it's ugly head in the form of The Truth, as both men will be testifying under oath as to whether McNamee's allegations are true or false.

I don't know about Clemens or McNamee, but lying to Congress is not on my list of things to do/accomplish before I die. It will be interesting to see who blinks first and changes the story that they've gone with all along.

This story's been beat to death over the past 60 or so days, with Clemens being named in the Mitchell Report as a player who did steroids. Then came the Clemens denials: first through his lawyers, then on his website and during a 60 Minutes interview and then during his press conference, where he introduced a bizarre taped conversation between him and McNamee, where McNamee repeatedly screamed, 'Roger what the fuck do you want me to do?' And throughout the whole ordeal no one thinks Roger's innocent.

Now McNamee has come out saying he has physical evidence that he's held onto for seven years to prove Roger's guilt, in the form of bloody syringes, needles and bandages (kept in all places - a Miller Lite can) and then adding this spicy nugget -that he also injected Roger's wife Debbie with HGH, per Roger's direction.

If that's true, that McNamee injected Debbie Clemens, a mother of four, with HGH, to make her transform what she looked like in 1999 to what she looked like in 2003, when she appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit issue, then they need to make HGH legal.



Women, not only all over the US, but, all over the world, would make HGH the number 1 selling product on any market in any country. (By the way, in Debbie's picture from 1999, what does her right hand have a tight grip around? Looks a little suspicious to me.)

In any case, it ought to be a fun day of testimony, especially since Roger kissed ass with some of the legislators on the committee last week, during his deposition. Afterwards, he posed for pictures and signed autographs for the Congressional members. I'm sure McNamee had to undergo the same ordeal of being fawned all over by the members of Congress after he gave his deposition.

All-in-all, I think Clemens used steroids. Not to justify it, but there was a fair percentage of players at the time juicing and I can see why he would decide to do it. It doesn't make it right, but justifiable.

Wouldn't it be great if Roger was all juiced up before the hearings, and came out wearing the eye black on his face and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's shoelaces that he had for Game 4 of the 1990 ALCS, trying to intimidate the members of Congress. Maybe he could fire a shattered bat (or bible that he placed his left hand on) back towards them. That would be awesome.