The Smoking Syringe
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- February
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Roger Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin, is coming off like an idiot. He said the evidence Brian McNamee supposedly has like bloody guaze and used needles prove he’s out to get Clemens.
So?
The explanation why McNamee would keep it is obvious. Either he wants to take down Clemens or in the back of his mind knew he might have to battle Clemens in court. If the evidence is legit, who cares what his motive is? The issue is whether Clemens used steroids and this could prove it.
For all his bluster, Clemens would have come off a lot better if he talked with Sen. George Mitchell before and went on the defensive immediately. If pressed between the two, I believe McNamee.
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from the NY Times:
The syringes, vials and gauze pads are said to date from 2000 and 2001, part of a four-year period in which McNamee contends he gave Clemens drug injections. But even if the physical evidence tests positive for Clemens’s DNA and, say, steroids, Clemens’s lawyers could argue that McNamee added steroid traces to the original evidence in a bid to incriminate Clemens, experts say.
“You can test to figure out what the substance is, but you cannot figure out how old it is,†Dr. Don Catlin, the former director of the Olympic testing lab at U.C.L.A.
This all comes from a player who threw a bat at Piazza and gave the lame excuse, “I thought it was the ball”. This isn’t dodgeball, it is baseball. Clemens is a liar and has absolutely no credability in my book. So far, McNamee has been up front and his stories have not be contested by the other players whom he named.
all you have to remember is when in the 2000 world series when clemens faced piazza and piazza’s bat broke and the top half tumble towards clemens and he picked up the broken bat and threw it back at piazza. when the camera showed a close up of clemens his eyes looked jacked. That my friends is called roid rage.
As a die hard Mets fan, let me preface this by saying that I hate Clemens’ very guts and I think that he is as guilty as sin. However, you cannot present mishandeled 7 year old bio-stuff as so-called evidence. Clemens’ lawyers are taking this tack because they will easily be able to invalidate this evidence in court. They know exactly what they are doing and are not so dumb as you say. DNA and other bio-evidence must be handled in a precise chain-of-evidence process in order to be used in court. It goes a bit beyond tossing it into a plastic bag. The head doping consultant for MLB was on WFAN today an said pretty much the same thing. Also, dude, watch an episode of CSI. They show this stuff every week.
Dont care. Clemens aint a Met. plus he’s a big fat baby.
yep not only does he do roids he’s got em too. (hemorrhoids)
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I was watching a show last nite where they talked about this. the person – cant remember who it was but a well known sports commentator – remarked at the contrast of clemens and bonds. where clemens faces his accusor and actually responds to the charges while bonds runs and hides and does not directly respond.
right or wrong at least clemens is putting up a credible defense.
i think he is guilty but it all depends on the supporting evidence to the ongoing he said she said debate.
Now on to more important matters.
Who is at port st lucie right now? what is their frame of mind? when is glavine going to pitch at shea again?
Given that Clemens has already decided to go the route of denying steroid use, this is the right move by his team. This evidence will not prove anything.
Does McNamee have a whole trophy room filled with syringes he used to inject Roger Clemens and other players?
If McNamee is going to be used by justice department as a witness in any cases, then the justice department and the DA office needs to keep his viablity as a witness. The only way they can do that now is to get Clemens. It doesn’t matter if the crap he kept is usable in court. Its usable to keep McNamee’n name good enough to use in front of a jury in another case, And Clemens’ name gets ruined a lot easier than via trial. Take McGwire. He been convicted of anything? Nope. But he’s ruined his rep. That’s what is going on with Clemens now.