Well, if you had watched it, you would have seen a very uncomfortable Clemens. He tried to start a sentence with “To be honest. . .” and he got as far as “to be . .” and the work “honest” would not come out. There was a hush over the floor. It was very telling. He could not even say the word.
Clemens would have been better off to pled the Fifth, and saved the $5 million he is probably paying Rusty Hardin.
You may well be right but I would observe that when I saw him start to say what is a pretty common phrase he realized that his attorney had told him NOT to say it since it creates the impression that other times that he didn't say it he wasn't being honest.
Yeah, yeah, I know, but still...
I don't have a dog in this hunt, I don't follow baseball any longer and I've heard some harsh words said about Clemens but for what it's worth I kind of felt sorry for him; the trainer impressed me as a sleezeball and just, maybe just, Clemens in innocent yet he's royally screwed.
Maybe he deserves it. However if so it should have happened in an entirely different way, not via some farcical report by Mitchell or by the testimony by someone who has a history of not telling the truth.