Clemens: YOUTUBE response (12.26.07), 60 Minutes interview (01.06.08), press conference (01.07.08)

[parasight21]

I would've just let it slide if he could kept his mouth shut.

Does this clown thinks that we are going to buy into his crap? YouTube? Aiyyo, give me a break.

 

[darthska]

- stayed quiet for a while
- acted like the accusations offended him, like there' NO WAY his name should be brought up
- used family as something to hide behind
- vehemently and angrily denied using anything

It's like he went right into Barry Bonds' backpack, ripped out Barry's notes from Barry's 'Denying: 101' notebook, and set up a camera.

 

[acidicality]

I just hope he gets the same treatment Barry Bonds gets through all this...or else something is clearly wrong with the media. And there is, so I expect him toget a pass somehow someway

 

[trasoul82]

I like the wording he used. He never had the guy inject him with steroids or HGH. It seems like he had the guy inject him with "something".


But for anyone looking for a parody of the video, this is straight comedy whether he is telling the truth or not:

 

[darthska]

acidicality wrote:

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I just hope he gets the same treatment Barry Bonds gets through all this...or else something is clearly wrong with the media. And there is, so I expect him to get a pass somehow someway

Either you haven't been watching, or you're naive. Or ignorant.

Because dude has been getting BLITZED.

As well he should.

Me personally, I place him right there with Bonds, like teammates on the New Friscotoronstonburgh Roiders.

New = New York Yankees (Clemens)
Frisco = San Francisco Giants (Bonds)
toron = Toronto Blue Jays (Clemens)
ston = Houston Astros/Boston Red Sox (Clemens)
burgh = Pittsburgh Pirates (Bonds)

 

[am 1 fiend]

Bonds and Clemens are both Frauds. Now all of you who love playing the race card can eat a big bowl of###+#!

 

[RyGuy45]

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[h1]Report: Clemens' attorney launches probe; Rocket to talk to reporters[/h1]
ESPN.com news services

Roger Clemens' lead attorney told The New York Times that his firm is launching its own investigation into allegations the seven-time Cy Young winner used steroids and human growth hormone.

"We are convinced the conclusions in Mitchell's report are wrong and are investigating the findings ourselves," Rusty Hardin told The Times. "At this stage we have uncovered a lot of logical people who we thought Mitchell was going to talk to but never talked to him or his investigators. That's troubling."

Hardin declined to tell The Times the names of the individuals he was referring to.

Clemens will tell his side of the story in a CBS "60 Minutes" interview with Mike Wallace that will air Jan. 6. Hardin told The Times that Clemens will answer other reporters' questions after that interview.

"After 60 Minutes airs he will be sitting down to answer questions directly to members of the media," Hardin told the newspaper. "We haven't figured out where it will happen but he will answer questions that night."

Clemens was the biggest name in the report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell that detailed the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

The Rocket's last four Cy Young Awards came in 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2004. Many of the allegations against Clemens in the Mitchell report came from former trainer Brian McNamee, though none pertain to 1997 or 2004. Mitchell wrote McNamee said he injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while with the Toronto Blue Jays, and steroids and HGH in 2000 and 2001, while with the New York Yankees.

Clemens also defended himself against the Mitchell report accusations in a video posted on his official Web site Sunday.

"Let me be clear: The answer is no, I did not use steroids, human growth hormone, and I've never done so. I did not provide Brian McNamee with any drugs to inject into my body. Brian McNamee did not inject steroids or human growth hormone into my body, either when I played in Toronto for the Blue Jays, or the New York Yankees. This report is simply not true," Clemens said in the videotaped statement.

Another former McNamee client, Yankees pitcher http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=5331Andy Pettitte, said recently that he took HGH twice while rehabbing from an injury in 2002. Mitchell said McNamee told him he injected Pettitte with HGH two-to-four times that year.

"He stands 100 percent behind the accuracy of the information he provided to Sen. Mitchell," McNamee's lawyer, Ed Ward, said in a recent statement.

Ward told The New York Daily News for Monday's editions that McNamee would be willing to one day sit down with Clemens and explain his side of the story.

"Brian would be open to it, certainly," Ward told the newspaper. "I don't know if Roger would. But Brian would be open to it because he knows what he's been saying all along is honest and truthful and he'd want Roger to understand he was obligated to tell the truth.

"The bottom line is he did not want to implicate a friend and a baseball icon in a steroid scandal," Ward added. "He was asked to tell the truth and he has. That's always been his position since Day 1."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

 

[darthska]

Now that he's going to do the interview tonight, the interview he was alluding to in that youtube video, we'll use this thread for discussion on theinterview.

 

[outacontrol music]

LOL. Clemens

 

[DeadsetAce]

thats his best defense????????????????

"if i took that stuff, id have a third ear growing out of my forehead and id be pulling tractors with my teeth"

 

[varisoxfan]

Clemens is so pissed during this interview and it isnt making him look good at all, we all know your pissed, and you think "your name has been draggedthrough the mud" he should have come through with good evidence and money trails and all kinds of other stuff, right now, he just looks like a pissed of14 year old.

 

[outacontrol music]

he LOOKS like he's lying.

 

[darthska]

Williams: "Why would McNamee tell the truth about Pettite, but lie about you?"
Roider Clemens: "Pettite's situation is totally separate from mine."

Yeah, that doesn't answer the questions, idiot.

 

[varisoxfan]

23ska909red02 wrote:

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Williams: "Why would McNamee tell the truth about Pettite, but lie about you?"
Roider Clemens: "Pettite's situation is totally separate from mine."

Yeah, that doesn't answer the questions, idiot.

exactly.

"I was eating Viox like it was Skittles"

anyone who is willing to put stuff in his body the way he is admitting to, you don't think he didn't TRY them one time?? I bet he did.

 

[varisoxfan]

Wow, this is the worst interview I have ever seen....

 

[used to be rich]

If there were any doubts whether he took Steroids or not, this interview should remove them completely.

This dude is lying his$%%+ off, and he's going to end up paying for it.

If he would have taken the Any route, it wouldn't have escalated to where it is now.

I'm kind of impressed with the reporter. He's going a little harder than I expected him to.

 

[darthska]

And now another gem (this kind of crap is why I was going to tune into this):

Williams: "What should be the penalty for using performance-enhancing drugs?"
Roider: "It's a self-inflicting penalty; your body breaks down faster."

WHAT?!?!?

Did you just basically say 'No one should be punished for using steroids. You're punishing yourself, and that should be enough'?!?!

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And another one...

Williams: "Would you submit to a lie detector test?"
Roider: "Would that really help anything? I don't know that it would."
Williams: "But would you do it if it would help?"
Roider: "How would it help?"

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Oh, and don't let me forget this one, right before those two:

"That's how this country works, right? Guilty until proven innocent?"

Son, the only people being called guilty by the public are people who have a load of evidence stacked against them. No one's going around accusing freakingIchiro of juicing, man. Or Griffey or freaking Chone Figgins. Just the people with loads of evidence against them, a group of people you now belong to.

 

[inine5]

he's clearly guilty, just listen to his choice of words..... "oh i won the cy young in 97 and 2004 when i supposedly wasn;t taking steroids....".making that kind of statement usually means your on the losing end already....

 

[bullsrepeat3peat]

damn Roger...... I believed that he might be telling the truth until I saw this interview....

Makes sense now....

 

[703 hwy]

I believe you Roger

 

[darthska]

703 Hwy wrote:

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I believe you Roger
That reminds me; I've been meaning to let NT know that I've got a beautiful home for sale, real cheap.

It's in Arizona, and it sits RIGHT on the beach. You can have it for $10, Paypal only.

 

[scoop83]

I believe you Roger
Koby?

 

[703 hwy]

Originally Posted by 23ska909red02

703 Hwy wrote:

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I believe you Roger

That reminds me; I've been meaning to let NT know that I've got a beautiful home for sale, real cheap.

It's is in Arizona, and it sits RIGHT on the beach. You can have it for $10, Paypal only.

Before or after taxes?

 

[inine5]

i know he's afraid to admit it cuz he's afraid it will keep him from the hall of fame since no steroid cheat has been voted in yet.....

 

[darthska]

703 Hwy wrote:

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I believe you Roger

Originally Posted by 23ska909red02

That reminds me; I've been meaning to let NT know that I've got a beautiful home for sale, real cheap.

It's is in Arizona, and it sits RIGHT on the beach. You can have it for $10, Paypal only.

703 Hwy wrote:

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Before or after taxes?