Oh, Roger….
Well, that one sealed the deal. Andy Petitte has told Congressional Board members that he has had conversations with both McNamee and Clemens himself that Roger Clemens used HGH and possibly steroids in the past. Roger is now asking America to believe:
- The same Roger Clemens who went 11-14, 9-7, 10-5 and 10-13 with the Red Sox, went 21-7 and 20-6 with Toronto (where Brian McNamee was his personal trainer) , without the aid of performance enhancers.
- Brian McNamee, a personal trainer with a degree in sports medicine, doesn’t know the difference between a B-12 shot (in the ass) and an HGH shot (through the navel)
- McNamee injected two of Rogers teammates and workout partners, Chuck Knoblauch and Andy Petitte, and Roger’s wife, but not Roger himself.
- Petitte “misremembers” that Roger said he took HGH and that McNamee said Roger did steroids.
- McNamee, a former police officer who knows how important physical evidence is to a case, fabricated said evidence to “throw a final hail mary” to support his story.
Are you serious Roger? It was bad enough that you chose not to end your career in Boston, the city that loved and celebrated you. It was worse that you soiled the game by taking illegal performance enhancers. But now your looking at a perjury conviction that carries a sentence up to 5 years. And once you are found guilty…and oh, you will be found guilty Roger, instead of being remembered as one of the greatest pitchers of all time: the Rocket, a man to be feared on the mound, your legacy will be only that of a liar, a cheater, a false idol, and one of the greatest blemishes in history on our Nation’s great game.
