Anyone who cares has seen the Roger Clemens "60 Minutes" interview and the subsequent uncomfortable Monday press conference. No one knows for sure who is telling the truth and, really there is no reason to rush to judgment as the congressional hearings should clear that up in February. However, Clemens will probably get "lawyered up" beforehand and plead the fifth claiming he can't talk because of his defamation suit against his buddy "Mac". Can he do that? I think I heard he could.
Until then I won't begin to speculate who's being untruthful in this he said/he said saga that has already carried on for about a month. The problem I have is with the taped conversation he and "Mac" had last Friday. Do Clemens and good ol' boy Rusty Hardin (if he wasn't on "The Dukes of Hazzard" he should have been) think we are idiots? What an insult to our intelligence to think that tape contained anything more than two guys in hot water tap-dancing around the subject.
When McNamee kept asking, "what do you want me to do?" (I'm told he said it 17 times) the door was open for the Clemens to tell him, "tell everyone you lied! I didn't take steroids! You know that!" Instead he said nothing.
I know if I was Clemens and didn't take steroids I would have said something.
