The Juiced, the Juicy, and the Juicier

Is everyone familiar with the Roger Clemens saga? Somebody grab the mop because this is a mess! Roger needs a new captain to take over the ship because he is going down.

The latest development has Andy Pettitte backing their former trainer Brian McNamee and the story that he enhanced Roger's performance with the HGH variety. Andy was Clemens' teammate for years and is also reported to be one of his closest teammates because they frequently worked out together. Well Andy was excused from having to give a deposition on Tuesday because it appears as though they have everything out of him that they need. Roger's attorney is ubiquitous, since when did attorney's get regular slots on television. He is telling everyone how they are going to be sorry for accusing his client and he even used the Duke lacrosse players case to compare this mess to. I don't think thats accurate unless the former trainer moonlights as a drunk stripper. He is out of control. I love putting icing on the cake, get this, he told media that if Jeff Novitzky, the lead investigator in the 5 1/2-year-old federal probe of steroid use among professional athletes, that if he got involved "Roger would eat his lunch". He is telling this guy don't even look this way unless you want trouble. What is he doing? Why is he poking at people?

Either this attorney has a heck of confidence in Roger Clemens or has some secret evidence locked in a safe. The question is why would everyone lie except Roger. Why would McNamee tell the truth about dozens of other MLB players and lie about Clemens. It just doesn't make sense. Even Clemens training buddy (Pettitte) has said yes, I did it and has backed up McNamee's story on Clemens.

There is always the side story and here it goes. The former trainer McNamee also said that he gave Roger Clemens' wife HGH too! He claims to have shot his wife up with performance enhancers in 2002 in their master bedroom. This guy has dates, times, and samples of his work. This is juicy stuff.

Clemens' doesn't seem to have much but his word, which usually isn't a bad thing. However the other guy has hard core evidence. Roger isn't completely without ammunition, he did play the taped phone conversation between he and the trainer but all that did was prove that McNamee has a sick child. McNamee is hitting homeruns and Clemens is getting singles and trying to steal second base. By the way how did he tape the phone conversation?

I can't leave this out because this part is funny. Clemens said in an interview that if he had taken the things that people are accusing him of taking then he would be pulling tractors with his teeth and growing an ear on his forehead. Roger, i wish it was that easy to identify. For that matter why haven't all the guys who admitted to using HGH and 'roids grown ears on their foreheads. Clemens is emphatic in his denial, and i appreciate that. Go hard or go home. However, i hope he's not lying because he will end up at the podium like Kwame Kilpatrick looking for forgivenss (sorry Detroit).

The best thing about all this is that i haven't had to hear about Barry Bonds being chased to the courthouse. But the difference between Bonds and Clemens is that Barry doesn't care what you think, he said "i didn't do it and i don't have anything else to say". I think the problem is that Roger Clemens cares too much. If I was telling the truth i wouldn't care what McNamee said, the burden of proof is on the other guy (he does seem to have a heap of proof though). Clemens needs to take the approach of "you charged me with this now prove it". Nobody wants to be blamed for things that they didn't do, but if i know he can't prove it i don't care. Clemens could be sweating because McNamee might be able to prove it. OR maybe McNamee set him up! What if McNamee injected him with HGH and Roger thought he was getting some sort of...... I don't know, scratch that maybe that's too far fetched, Roger i tried to lighten the load for you.

On the other end we need to be weary of McNamee's evidence. How and why did he manage to save all of the needles and swabs from Roger Clemens treatments. The only way this isn't creepy is if he has stuff from everyone he has trained. And then if it is proven to be Clemens DNA how do we know what was in those needles or that it hasn't been tampered with. Like i said in the first paragraph, somebody get a mop. McNamee said in the Mitchell Report that Roger was at a party hosted by Jose Canseco. However Canseco says McNamee is a dirty liar. Canseco and Clemens have teamed up and refuted McNamee claims. That's great but how would you feel if you and Jose Canseco saw eye to eye these days. We dont' even know if Jose has told the truth in his book ousting everyone that he allegedly knew took steroids, what are his motives? Who know what to believe anymore, but there is one guy that has evidence in the bank. We will just have to see how this thing plays out, but watch out for syringes in the mean time.

Clemens just needs a glimmer of hope here because i don't see it. I don't know if his fastball is going to get him out of this jam.

P.S. did you hear Mary J. Blige, 50 cent, and other musicians also took steroids or HGH. I don't care though, unless it helps them write those songs, because if it does im PISSED!