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It looks like Roger Clemens didn’t convince any Democrats with his testimony in front of Congress February 13th. According to anonymous sources, a letter to the Justice Department has been drafted asking the it to investigate whether Clemens, and not McNamee, committed perjury during hearings in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Keith Ausbrook, Republican chief counsel for the committee, told reporters that he was unaware of the letter, indicating that at least for now, this is not a bipartisan act.
What happens know depends on the Justice Department. They can choose to investigate Clemens and McNamee if they want. Jeff Novitsky, the man who led the BALCO investigation, watched the testimony in person and could be called into service again.
Meanwhile, more evidence has surfaced that shows Clemens did attend the pool party at Jose Canseco’s house. Besides the photographic evidence supposedly provided by an eleven-year old, a major league ballplayer has apparently told Congress that Clemens often told a story about his wife, Debbie, and Jose’s wife, Jessica, comparing the results of their breast implants. That answers one burning question, but makes you wonder how anyone would forget that party.
To complete the bad news for Roger, Brian McNamee’s attorneys have filed a motion to remove Rusty Hardin from the defamation lawsuit filed by Rocket and to have the entire matter dismissed.
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The rocket has exploded.
WHO CARES?!!!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IF THESE IDIOTS WHO "GOVERN" US HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN FUTZ AROUND WITH INVESTIGATING BASEBALL PLAYERS THEY ALL NEED TO RESIGN.
The kid was 11 years old at the time of the party.
Now you have to wonder why Conseco would lied about it. [cough] money [cough]
nothing like tax dollars at work!!!
So you guys want the government to function, to work. But when people lie to the government, you want to what? Not do anything? What's next?
Baseball is big business. And it does affect the lives of Americans. The psyche of America. The kids. The parents. The coaches. Sports, in general. This is important.
Baseball is big business. And it does affect the lives of Americans. The psyche of America. The kids. The parents. The coaches. Sports, in general. This is important.
Only if you let it affect your life. Quite a few of us couldn't care less about professional sports. As far as we're concerned, these are a bunch of overgrown boys playing children's games and being paid way too much to do it. And their behavior on and off the field all too often confirms that they refuse to grow up.
Only if you let it affect your life.
You're right. That's why I don't care a whit about poor people. I am not poor. Global warming? I won't be alive. I'm convinced. I'm convinced. If I don't care about it, it's not a problem.
Let's all live solipsistic lives.
As long as there are billions of dollars gambled legally every year, the government has a responsibility to prevent fraud.
MFer, I fail to follow your logic.
You are equating the problem of a baseball player possibly lying to a Congressional Committee investigating supposed steroid use with the problem of global poverty?
I think there are cases of perjury of much larger significance than what Roger Clemens may have or not have said to some congressmen with nothing better to do with their time.
It's not as if all of Congress grinds to a halt for this one tiny matter. It's one lousy committee working on it. Perspective people.
I don't watch baseball. Ever. I personally could care less about Roger Clemens, or any of the individuals.
Major League Baseball is a business and the steroids in baseball story is huge. Professionals using performance enhancing drugs, and its effects on grown adults who took those drugs and those that didn't, through the trickle down effects on amateurs, college players, high schoolers, and children should be a monumental concern.
While I think Congress should investigate the buildup to invading Iraq, this is also clearly within their jurisdiction and is important enough to warrant their attention.
I am fascinated with the Clemens sub-story, but it has completely diffused attention from everyone else, including the owners and organizations, intricately involved with juicing up. As Rocket appears to have perjured himself, he should be held to task.
Take all the money that baseball generates and dump it into solving "more important issues" like poverty. Problem not solved.
Take away the sport and this nation is miserable.
My point is just because you don't care about sports, doesn't mean it is not important part of our nation. Most people care about sports. It's part of the social fabric. And the government does have a role to play in it.
It is wrong headed to suggest that we can solve one problem in exclusion of another. And congressmen get paid whether or not they do anything. No time is being wasted.
Perjury is perjury, right? How about perjury televised nationally? Willful, flagrant, and in your face. That's very serious. And if he gets away with it, everyone gets away with it.
Quite a few of us couldn't care less about professional sports.
Considering that baseball has an anti-trust exemption from the Federal government and that the Federal government loses hundreds of millions of dollars because for-profit teams are allowed to sell tax-free bonds to fund their stadiums I would say that Congress has every right to investigate and that even if you don't care how it impacts sports per se, maybe you should care that there could (but likely won't) be impact in other areas.
that the downfall of clemens can be attributed to his wife talking about her fake boobs and a photo by a kid, and not just the loss of skills, is so sad.
[13] I never wrote Congress has no right to investigate. What I wrote was that MFer was being silly in his contention that professional sports is an essential part of American society. That's BS. I get along quite well without it. So do a lot of other people, including a large number of football widows.
Tien,
Tits and Kids, pretty much the downfall of every great American athlete. That and the drugs and booze and pills and shots. But mostly it was the kids and tits.