Specifically, they apparently have documentation that McNamee actually had a telephone conversation with Clemens before the Mitchell Report was released last month, in which McNamee told Clemens that his name was in the report.

I wonder if McNamee and his lawyers have similar documentation of the gist of the “emotional” conversation McNamee and Clemens had this last Saturday night, too?

You take McNamee at only his word (not under oath, but under the threat of prosecution), but you need a “smoking gun” or “revealing answer” from Clemens to believe that what he says is true.

I don’t get it?

That goes for most of the posters on this blog as well.

You are all telling me that you believe McNamee before you believe Clemens?

Let them ask Clemens what color the B-12 solution is when drawn up in a syringe. It’s red!

Ask Clemens to show us the results of his last complete cardiac workup, including echocardiogram. If he’s so concerned about what he puts in his body, he should be concerned about what possible damage he did to his cardiac muscle by taking steroids.

For his sake, I hope he wasn’t lying, because right now he’s taking the same path Michael Vick took by deny, deny, deny back in April. If he had come clean then, I’m convinced he would have had a football suspension without jail time.

1. First of all, it is obvious that he is deeply offended and dismayed that his word was questioned at all, especially without a modicum of proof and on the word of a convicted felon.

2. To sue someone in the south is considered bad form, as in a self-imposed act of dragging one’s family name through the street of public opinion. His stance would be he should not have to go to court to defend his word; the old southern adage that one’s word is one’s bond is in play here.

3. Lastly, his seemingly beside-the-point story concerning pitching injured, and even going so far as to take legal pain substances that could now possibly be harmful to his health is telling; it reveals the full magnitude of his sense of anger and betrayal after giving years and years of loyal support.

The truth is, you are dealing with a cross-cultural response that you do not understand or, I suspect, even wish to understand. You are out for blood or submission, possibly both, and for you folks north of the Potomac River that is always the bottom line.

Southron

I’m not saying Mcnamee lied. I’m saying IF he did lie about Clemens, then he would make sure there were NO OTHER lies he could get caught in.

If McNamee gets caught in 2 lies or more, his whole testimony is blown.

As I said, I don’t know about Roger. But even if everything else he said was true, it doesn’t reflect on what he said about Roger. After all, if the Mitchell report did NOT have Clemens and Andy, it would have been totally laughed at. And Andy’s offense is not that bad. The Clemens name really the only thing that gives this report any teeth.

From the MLB website:
• The lawsuit includes a quote from a conversation Hardin’s private investigators had with McNamee after the Mitchell Report was made public. The lengthy McNamee quote indicates he was persuaded to talk about Clemens after a federal prosecutor and agent threatened him.

• According to the lawsuit, McNamee told Hardin’s investigators a federal prosecutor and federal agent talked about how he already had two strikes against him for possessing and delivering steroids and could get a third—lying to a federal agent—and go to jail. He said it was soon after that he was asked, “So what about Clemens?”

I mean, you really don’t believe Clemens (or the biggest fish they could find not named Bonds) was targeted?

1) If an accusation is raised against you and you fail to sue the accuser, that establishes conclusively that the accusation is true. This is true regardless of the cost, time, and effort that goes into starting a lawsuit. In this case, Clemens could sue McNamee, but to what end? Money? If Clemens is successful (wins money against McNamee) that definitively concludes the matter? Right.

2) Once a person has established one truth, all future statements and accusations must be true. McNamee was correct about Pettitte, therefore he must be correct about Clemens. Incidentally, I just ate a bagel. And at 6am, I bench-pressed 2,000 pounds. Don’t believe me? Well, I have video of me eating the bagel. That concludes the matter on the bench press, right?

I wonder if that will ever happen.