Posted on 02/13/2008 8:23:02 AM PST by STARWISE
The House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee holds a third hearing on the use of performance enhancing substances by major league baseball players. Witnesses include MLB player Roger Clemens."
This is HGH! and world SERIES!
By Alan Schwarz
Tags: George J. Mitchell, roger clemens
Live Video: The Hearings
Text: Clemens’s Statement
Text: McNamee’s Statement
The New York Times’s Alan Schwarz is in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room and will be providing analysis and updates throughout today’s hearing.
(Excerpt)
11:03 a.m. ET
Duff Wilson, also here in the meeting room, reports: Roger Clemens said Andy Pettitte “misremembers” the 1999 or 2000 conversations the two men had regarding H.G.H. Mr. Pettitte told Congressional staff members that Mr. Clemens told him then that he used H.G.H.
Mr. Clemens, in his sworn testimony, said he had been talking about a television show about three aging men who used H.G.H. and had a better quality of life. Mr. Pettitte and his wife both gave affidavits about the conversation. Mr. Pettitte said he told his wife about it shortly after the conversation he had with Mr. Clemens.
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I’ve been listening to this for about an hour, or so. Roger isn’t doing well....
I’m listening to streaming video (not watching). Couldn’t handle looking up Waxman’s nose......
Cspan’s page is saying it’s on Cspan-3,
but it’s on the TV on my cspan-2.
Andy......
Misheard
Misunderstood
Misremembered.
Heckuva defense.....
Clemens is pulling a BJ Clinton - so wagging-the-finger sure of telling the truth, everyone else is lying. In order to believe this cheat you have to believe everyone around him is risking jail by lying just to hurt him. Or they have bad memories. Suuure Rog...
Rog should have just admitted some use right away when the Mitchell report came out like Petitte did. Instead his ego is so overblown he is willing to even drag his wife through the mud. I knew the guy was a roid-freak the second he flung that broken bat at Piazza.
As devoted fans of Major League Baseball,we at FanStrike.net demand that team owners and the Major League Players Union take the following actions:
As devoted, passionate, well-meaning‚fans of Major‚League Baseball,‚we‚commit‚to take the following actions in order to ensure that the demands enumerated above are met:
It is up to us fans to save our game. I personally think that Major League baseball is worth saving.‚If we fans as consumers sit idly by and do nothing to demand that baseball clean up its act, we‚as‚consumers of the Major League‚Baseball‚product are complicit in propagating professional baseball’s steroid culture. A lot is at stake here. If‚nothing is done to change baseball immediately,‚professional baseball’s entire credibility will be shot.‚The home run record numbers of 73 and 762 already hold no credibility‚for me. For this baseball fan, if nothing is done to clean up baseball’s steroid mess, Major League Baseball is in danger of becoming a discredited performance enhancing freak show not at all unlike those Mr. Universe, Worlds Strongest Man, Longest Drive, and WWE professional wrestling competitions you occasionally see on television late at night.
Performance enhancing drugs have no place in baseball. We fans need to put some positive‚ECONOMIC pressure on the Major League Players Union, the franchise owners, the radio and television networks, and the individual players themselves to help ensure that Major League Baseball regain its former credibility, consistency, and position of importance in American culture. We need to save our great national game.
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As devoted fans of Major League Baseball,we at FanStrike.net demand that team owners and the Major League Players Union take the following actions:
As devoted, passionate, well-meaning‚fans of Major‚League Baseball,‚we‚commit‚to take the following actions in order to ensure that the demands enumerated above are met:
It is up to us fans to save our game. I personally think that Major League baseball is worth saving.‚If we fans as consumers sit idly by and do nothing to demand that baseball clean up its act, we‚as‚consumers of the Major League‚Baseball‚product are complicit in propagating professional baseball’s steroid culture. A lot is at stake here. If‚nothing is done to change baseball immediately,‚professional baseball’s entire credibility will be shot.‚The home run record numbers of 73 and 762 already hold no credibility‚for me. For this baseball fan, if nothing is done to clean up baseball’s steroid mess, Major League Baseball is in danger of becoming a discredited performance enhancing freak show not at all unlike those Mr. Universe, Worlds Strongest Man, Longest Drive, and WWE professional wrestling competitions you occasionally see on television late at night.
Performance enhancing drugs have no place in baseball. We fans need to put some positive‚ECONOMIC pressure on the Major League Players Union, the franchise owners, the radio and television networks, and the individual players themselves to help ensure that Major League Baseball regain its former credibility, consistency, and position of importance in American culture. We need to save our great national game.
ALL the cable networks are covering this !!
MSNBC, CNN, FOX, CNBC: they don’t
devote 10 mins. of time to show
hearings and debates on the vital
needs of our intelligence agencies
in protecting us in the WOT, or their
partisan obstructionism of things like
“enhanced interrogation” to prevent
devastating attacks, but this is SO
important. Unbelievable!
Burton was pretty tough on McNamee!
Bloodless slaughter.
This must be very important compared to Iraq, the Recession, USA schools placing 15th in science, math, etc.
Cspan-2
is now on the intelligence committee
hearing, where Rockefeller is proclaiming
with certainty that the CIA/intelligence
agencies were never in a “ticking timebomb”
situation where coercive interrogation was
necessary on a captured terrorist, and that
it wouldn’t work anyway.
The reason is: once a terrorist is caught,
his colleagues change their plans. DUH!
The dribble he’s spewing is simply NOT TO BE
BELIEVED!
I really hate seeing this. Roger Clemens has always been my hero and now he is just another liar. Sad to see this. To make matters worse, this McNamee guy is a little nerd that sold out his friend and client. This was not something that had to be drug out before congress, this issue has been an ongoing problem and baseball is handling it now. At least Knoblock and Pettit have the character to tell the truth under oath and face the consequences. At the end of the day they can face their kids and fans and know that they were real men and not afraid of the truth. Clemens has about as much character as Bill Clinton. I am just blown away about this.
Politicians need face time and they need to steal my hard earned money and they make me sick.
Roger “the dodger” now relating the sob story about his how his mom ang grandmother had to bring him up after the death of his father, his sister-in-law killed “because of drugs,” about how he “didn’t have a car in high school,” and had to “run home from school” every day to his family’s “small town house.” SNIFF!
Of course Mcnamee is a lowlife - his job was to inject illegal substances into the butts of cheaters. However, the one main issue of Clemens taking roids he is telling the same story as he did about Petitte and Knoblauch, which have been proven true. It’s like busting a drug dealer, pimp, etc - usually the guys ratting them out are in the biz also. Meanwhile in order to save himself Clemens has thrown the following people under the bus - his wife, his agents, team doctors, Petitte, and Petitte’s wife. Am I missing anybody?
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