Comments on: A smoking gun? http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/ A New York Yankees blog by Chad Jennings and the staff of The Journal News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:23:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jesse http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-239200 Jesse Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:45:49 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-239200 I would like to start this by saying I am not a Roger Clemens fan. However, this story has become the newest in a series of events where there was a rush to judgment by the media and especially ESPN. In the information now society, the media and the public expect the answer before it happens. The legal system is a slow moving process. To destroy the reputation of those athletes in the Mitchell Report only on the testimony of persons that exchanged their testimony for shorter jail sentences was morally wrong. I still am undecided on Roger Clemens, I will wait till everything comes out. However I think the media, especially ESPN, and the public should considered the events that followed the DUKE rape case and realize that the breaking story is not always the truth. I would like to start this by saying I am not a Roger Clemens fan. However, this story has become the newest in a series of events where there was a rush to judgment by the media and especially ESPN. In the information now society, the media and the public expect the answer before it happens. The legal system is a slow moving process. To destroy the reputation of those athletes in the Mitchell Report only on the testimony of persons that exchanged their testimony for shorter jail sentences was morally wrong. I still am undecided on Roger Clemens, I will wait till everything comes out.

However I think the media, especially ESPN, and the public should considered the events that followed the DUKE rape case and realize that the breaking story is not always the truth.

]]> By: ORORO http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-239197 ORORO Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:41:21 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-239197 Rocket......... If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...its a duck....can this guy just go away? He is no victim or martyr. Rocket……… If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…its a duck….can this guy just go away? He is no victim or martyr.

]]> By: susan mullen http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-239155 susan mullen Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:11:51 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-239155 I got the impression McNamee needed money, said he had to pay for security now, was living in a 1 bedroom apartment, and has a car that doesn't work. Sounded like a desperate man overall. If George Mitchell was a director of the Yankees, received income in that connection, Chairman of ESPN, the NY Times was part owner of the Yankees, (sorry, George J. Mitchell--middle initial for the big fella), and had been a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, how much of any of this would be happening? I got the impression McNamee needed money, said he had to pay for security now, was living in a 1 bedroom apartment, and has a car that doesn’t work. Sounded like a desperate man overall. If George Mitchell was a director of the Yankees, received income in that connection, Chairman of ESPN, the NY Times was part owner of the Yankees, (sorry, George J. Mitchell–middle initial for the big fella), and had been a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, how much of any of this would be happening?

]]> By: Jay http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-239112 Jay Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:41:04 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-239112 Yeah, Clemens "started cursing." He said "ass," you hack, a word so fiendish you can say it on TV. Yeah, Clemens “started cursing.” He said “ass,” you hack, a word so fiendish you can say it on TV.

]]> By: Old Yanks Fan http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-239027 Old Yanks Fan Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:38:43 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-239027 Has anyone read this yet? http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3185451&sportCat=mlb What a freakin' hatchet job. Has anyone read this yet?
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn.....ortCat=mlb
What a freakin’ hatchet job.

]]> By: David C. http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-238948 David C. Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:45:00 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-238948 This website will explain taping laws in all 50 states. http://www.rcfp.org/taping/ This website will explain taping laws in all 50 states.

http://www.rcfp.org/taping/

]]> By: NYPD113th http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-238885 NYPD113th Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:01:50 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-238885 Looks like ol' Roger had a little 'roid rage at the press conference. Looks like ol’ Roger had a little ‘roid rage at the press conference.

]]> By: JoeC http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-238854 JoeC Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:38:45 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-238854 Oftentimes in litigation, ethical and other legal obligations attach even before the formal commencement of the lawsuit. For example, potential litigants are obligated to preserve potentially relavent evidence even before suit is filed, i.e., when a suit is reasonably foreseeable. I can see an annalogous rule here re: atty/client/opposing party communications. Here, you have Clemens' attorney directing his client to communicate with a potential adverse party regarding the merits of a threatened and foreseeable lawsuit knowing that party is represented by counsel. Unless Texas' ethical rules are way out of wack with those of most other states, I don't see how McNamee's lawyers don't raise this and Hardin isn't bench slapped. Oftentimes in litigation, ethical and other legal obligations attach even before the formal commencement of the lawsuit. For example, potential litigants are obligated to preserve potentially relavent evidence even before suit is filed, i.e., when a suit is reasonably foreseeable. I can see an annalogous rule here re: atty/client/opposing party communications. Here, you have Clemens’ attorney directing his client to communicate with a potential adverse party regarding the merits of a threatened and foreseeable lawsuit knowing that party is represented by counsel. Unless Texas’ ethical rules are way out of wack with those of most other states, I don’t see how McNamee’s lawyers don’t raise this and Hardin isn’t bench slapped.

]]> By: Drew41 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-238826 Drew41 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:16:50 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-238826 How would that not be admissible? You've got about 10 people who can authenticate the phone call. How would that not be admissible? You’ve got about 10 people who can authenticate the phone call.

]]> By: Jake http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/comment-page-3/#comment-238823 Jake Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:15:00 +0000 http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-smoking-gun/#comment-238823 GIVE EM HELL ROCKET!!!! I love this! Look how pissed Roger is getting. This man is determined to clear his name. The more this plays out, the more stupid the Mitchell Report will look. GIVE EM HELL ROCKET!!!!

I love this! Look how pissed Roger is getting. This man is determined to clear his name.

The more this plays out, the more stupid the Mitchell Report will look.

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