Well Chad, you pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. I’d like to also welcome all of you who have taken a peak at our humble weblog. I guess since introductions have already been made I’ll get right into the sports goodness, or the sports vile. Yesterday I wrote a blog about Roger Clemens in which I stated how I believe Clemens is a lying, guilty, steroid user. I wrote this before Clemens went on stage and made a complete fool of himself in front of a national audience. Note to Roger, getting really mad at the press is not a good way to make yourself seem innocent in the court of public opinion. We’ve seen this too many times before, think of the likes of Barry Bonds and Marion Jones. Both huffed and puffed until they were blue in the face, and both eventually were crushed by a overwhelming amount of evidence suggesting otherwise.
Now Roger’s case is different. There’s only one guy who has testified to seeing Clemens do drugs, that being Brian McNamee. What makes McNamee’s (Roger’s former trainer) case so credible is that he also testified that he injected Andy Pettitte with HGH. Pettitte came clean and in doing so makes McNamee a very credible witness. There was also a phone call that Clemens taped of a conversation between himself and MnNamee. It was a strange conversation in which Clemens never told McNamee that he was lying about the injections and McNamee kept asking Clemens, “what do you want me to do?’ Personally I kept waiting for Clemens to say, “just lie,” or maybe that was just what I wanted to hear. Some people on certain networks believe that Clemens came out of yesterdays press conference smelling like roses. It makes me wonder how these people still have jobs.
Clemens and McNamee will both appear in front of Congress next week. I look forward to see what kind of information we gather from that day. If Clemens decides to plead the fifth then he will probably be damned in the court of public opinion, but I don’t think he will regardless of whether or not he is guilty. Clemens is nothing if not stubborn. McNamee has the most to lose here so it will be interesting if he recants the same story he gave to George Mitchell. Either way, there will be no escaping this whole ordeal in the next couple of weeps. Personally, I will be staying away from certain networks until more facts come out.
And now for something completely different….
-Thanks for playing OSU but LSU was always the better team. I told Chad last night that I wished I was a gambler because I would have made a killing.
-The Daily Show and Colbert Report are back without writers, which makes the show both twice as funny and twice as awkward, check it out.
-Last thing, the New Hampshire primaries are going on as I’m typing this and the smart money is on Obama to win. Obama’s message of both change and bringing the two parties closer are refreshing. He’s a little vague on specific policies, so I look forward to learning more about him in the coming weeks and months. There’s just something about him that excites me about the future… kind of like a young Bill Clinton. Oh the irony.
