Comments on: The Smoking Syringe

By: sloppy

sloppy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:56:30 +0000

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.

By: Dan Gurney

Dan Gurney — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:51:09 +0000

Does McNamee have a whole trophy room filled with syringes he used to inject Roger Clemens and other players?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:00:24 +0000

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.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:23:28 +0000

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?

By: dave

dave — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:21:57 +0000

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.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:54:49 +0000

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)
;-]

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:53:36 +0000

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.

By: tomg

tomg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:49:38 +0000

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.

By: Joe E

Joe E — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:37:07 +0000

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.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:14:02 +0000

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 Clemensâ€™s DNA and, say, steroids, Clemensâ€™s lawyers could argue that McNamee added steroid traces to the original evidence in a bid to incriminate Clemens, experts say.

â€œYou can test to figure out what the substance is, but you cannot figure out how old it is,â€ Dr. Don Catlin, the former director of the Olympic testing lab at U.C.L.A.