Posted on 01/15/2004 7:38:11 AM PST by Born Conservative
There are two names in the news that, to our knowledge, have never before been linked: Roger Clemens and Rush Limbaugh.
Roger Clemens
Roger Clemens is the baseball pitcher, future Hall of Famer, six time winner of the game’s highest accolade for his craft, the Cy Young Award.
Before the 2003 season, he announced that it would be his last. That he sought only one more goal—to achieve 300 career victories. This he did in June. Everything after that was a valedictory.
In New York, each Clemens appearance was a love-fest. Beyond the ceremonies and the special Hum-Vee, he was accorded a priceless gift, as baseball people figure it: the Yankees let him be the “manager” for the last game of the regular season.
And away from his home stadium, it all became a victory lap, a farewell tour, a moveable feast. It was most emotional in Boston, a city which still loathed him because he left their beloved Red Sox after the 1996 season, a city which loathed him more because he wound up pitching for its hated rival, New York. In the middle of a vicious playoff series, Boston fans—who had once torn a poster of Clemens from the walls of their stadium—now stood as one, and roared, because he was making his last appearance in their stadium.
And when Clemens made his last major league appearance in Game Four of the 2003 World Series, at Miami, even the accolades in Boston were overshadowed. Not only did the fans on foreign ground cheer him, the rival players and even the manager cheered him in the middle of a World Series game.
Because that would be all we would see of him. The Rocket was going out on top, erasing years in which he was viewed as a great pitcher but an irresponsible person—disdainful of the fans and even his own teammates and unconcerned by the safety of opponents. He was considered a great pitcher, a perfect retirement, a man of his word, who said he was giving up the game and going home to be with his kids—getting out at the peak of his professional and personal success.
Yesterday, Roger Clemens signed a one-year contract to pitch for the Houston Astros in 2004. His retirement lasted exactly 80 days.
Rush Limbaugh
Of Limbaugh’s many targets, it is hard to pick a favorite. But if you enter “Rush Limbaugh” and “American Civil Liberties Union” or ACLU into an Internet search engine, you’ll get 8600 results.
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I think that's what tripped them up on appeal. The question is whether the state has the authority to seize the documents in order to determine if a crime has occurred. They don't need the records to "administer justice". They need the records to find out if any justice needs to be administered, which is a huge difference. And the only cause they have is the fact that he had more than one doctor, hardly a unique circumstance in Florida (or any other state).
The proper sequence of events in a doctor shopping case would be for one of the physicians to file the complaint, and then have the state subpoena the records; the docs are the only individuals with adequate knowledge of the circumstances to determine whether probable cause exists.
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