Welcome back to my blog Score listeners! I apologize for getting a bit lazy and not updating it. I will try to update it daily Monday-Friday each week.
Today, a quick take on the Clemens/McNamee hearings in front of the congressional committee on oversight and reform.
-Clearly someone is lying here and could face perjury charges somewhere down the line.
-The big question is, do we have a winner in these hearings? Probably not! Both Clemens and McNamee had their credibility called into question by various committee members which was somewhat separated by party lines. The republicans seemed to suck up to Roger and attack the credibility of McNamee while the democrats went after Clemens for his inconsistent testimony things that contradicted his story.
-What we are left with is a situation where we can only form our own opinions based upon what we heard today.
-In my opinion, nothing happenned today to change my opinion going into the hearing. I tend to believe that Clemens probably did knowingly do steroids and still do.
-The most convincing Q & A for me was that of Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) who seemed to point to Clemens' best friend Andy Pettitte for the right answers. Pettitte, in a sworn deposition last week confirmed that he had two conversations with Clemens about Roger's HGH use and, in both cases, he shared those conversations with his wife who confirmed them in her own sworn deposition. When asked by Cummings what he thought about Pettitte's statements, Clemens indicated that Pettitte must have "misremembered" their conversations and continued his denial of ever having taken steroids or HGH. Andy Pettitte is no angel (he admitted in his sworn deposition that he had taken HGH in 2004 which he did not admit to after the Mitchell report), but I find him to be the most believable of everyone involved in this mess.
That's all for now! For more, join me on the Sportsbeat today at 3pm>
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