REMEMBER THE DUKE LECROSSE TEAM?
“…"I think baseball is trying to clean up its act," Aaron said, sitting in the Braves' dugout during batting practice. "It's unfortunate for baseball, but baseball has been through some tough times. It went through the White Sox scandal and survived. It went through a lot of things and survived. It's going to survive this, too."…”
As a baseball fan, I am suffering through the whole steroid scandal. But there is more to it. When it first broke, I was probably one of the first to suggest Roger Clemens go the way of Shoeless Joe Jackson. I could care less about Clemens. I think he is more hype than talent. From what I am discovering, he’s not well liked by his colleagues, to the point where no one is defending him, which is fascinating in itself. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon to defend Andy Pettitte who is considered “a good Christian”, even though he is an admitted liar and cheater. But, everyone is slamming Clemens who is protesting his innocence all the way to the gallows.
Earlier today I was listening to some of the points of the new lawsuit the current Duke Lacrosse players have filed. It is fascinating, the number of people who lied in order to convict those three young men. It is also interesting how people turned on them, then started to believe they might be telling the truth.
What if we are dealing with the same thing?
What if Roger Clemens is innocent?
We hear that the Gutless Wonder of a Commissioner, Bud Selig is still ‘reviewing’ the Mitchell Report. Isn’t that special.
I know I keep coming back to this like a broken record. I apologize to any reader in advance. But – what if Roger Clemens is innocent? Andy Pettitte is an admitted liar, but he’s a good Christian and a good man so he’s getting a pass. He “faced it like a man” and owned up to his mistake. The hallowed world is now forgiving him. Roger Clemens keeps protesting his innocence. The man who originally accused him has McNamee has been proven to be a liar and has a grudge against Clemens. Andy Pettitte is an unadmitted liar, but a good Christian, so he’s good, Clemens is bad. It seems to me there are any number of individuals within the baseball world who truly dislike Roger Clemens.
Is Andy Pettitte a Liar?
“…No doubt, his news conference yesterday played well with the portion of the American public that wants to believe the best of people, especially those we think we know so well.
But he did not fully come clean about his reasons for using HGH, his splintered friendship with Roger Clemens or the fact that he broke an unwritten law of competition and a most explicitly written law of the land. That has got to rankle those of us who believe that everyone, even celebrities, need to be held accountable for their actions..”
Oh yea, Pettitte is a good man, a role model. Doesn’t matter if he lied or cheated, he’s a good man.
NYDaily News thinks the worst is yet to come for Pettitte.
NYPost
Why is Pettitte the more “forgiving face” in this whole thing? He lied and he cheated.
I’m still trying to grasp the following:
“…I am mad at Pettitte, not for the drug taking, but for lying to my face about it, multiple times over the years. Long before the Mitchell Report was even a consideration there were whispers about Roger Clemens' association with illegal performance enhancers, and there was Pettitte suddenly right beside the Rocket, getting bigger and stronger. It led to questions and the same responses from Pettitte since the late 1990s: No way, not a chance, not me….”
So Pettitte is to be forgiven for lying and cheating, but Clemens is not to be given the benefit of the doubt because he is denying steroid use. Yet, one by one his accusers have been proven to be liars. Doesn’t it make you stop and think about a few things?
Denny McClain on Clemens’ situation.
“…Word on the street Clemens has denied under oath any involvement with steroids or HGH. McLain compares Clemens' steadfast denials with the stubbornness of Rose, who refused to acknowledge that he bet on baseball for decades before coming clean. "My personal feeling after seeing [Clemens] and watching him come out of the box so harshly is that the Hall of Fame is what it's all about," McLain said.
"That's what it was all about with Pete. All Pete wanted was the Hall of Fame. And that's what Roger wants. If these guys would sit down and be honest with you— Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro and some of these other guys—they would tell you that.
"You know, McGwire will never get in the Hall. I don't think Roger ever will now. I don't know if you just draw a line in the sand and move on. But [Commissioner] Bud Selig is the one who opened it up [with the Mitchell report]. Now what's he going to do about it?
"Sooner or later, what I think will happen is it will be the same thing that implicated [Olympic track star] Marion Jones. I believe that anybody who used that juice should have the same thing done to them. Marion Jones lost all her medals and everything. I think Roger feels he is bigger than the game. And Roger just believed that, bottom line, if I scream loud enough and long enough, people will believe me. The reverse is happening, unfortunately.
"It would take Roger to stand up and be a Superman now, and say: 'Damn it, I am sorry.' But I don't think it's in his character."…”
"That's what it was all about with Pete. All Pete wanted was the Hall of Fame. And that's what Roger wants. If these guys would sit down and be honest with you— Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro and some of these other guys—they would tell you that.
"You know, McGwire will never get in the Hall. I don't think Roger ever will now. I don't know if you just draw a line in the sand and move on. But [Commissioner] Bud Selig is the one who opened it up [with the Mitchell report]. Now what's he going to do about it?
"Sooner or later, what I think will happen is it will be the same thing that implicated [Olympic track star] Marion Jones. I believe that anybody who used that juice should have the same thing done to them. Marion Jones lost all her medals and everything. I think Roger feels he is bigger than the game. And Roger just believed that, bottom line, if I scream loud enough and long enough, people will believe me. The reverse is happening, unfortunately.
"It would take Roger to stand up and be a Superman now, and say: 'Damn it, I am sorry.' But I don't think it's in his character."…”
FROM THE HOME RUN KING
“…Still, Aaron's presence was enough to cause quite a stir in the Braves' clubhouse. Plenty of players reverently approached the man who hit 755 career homers, just to say hello and shake his hand. "He's the best," said pitcher John Smoltz, who has played his entire career in Atlanta. "And he's one of ours. That makes it even more special."
Dressed casually in a Cuban-style shirt and khaki pants, Aaron's most pressing priority is taking care of his ailing right knee, which finally succumbed to his long career on the field and active post- retirement lifestyle. He struggles to get around, and his wife is trying to set up a date for knee-replacement surgery. "It's bone on bone," he said. "I don't know when I'm going to do it, but I am." Even with the pain in his knee, Aaron relishes being at spring training, especially on a day when he got to watch both Tom Glavine and Tim Hudson take the mound, marveling at them from behind the safety of the batting cage.
"If I had to take batting practice against guys like Hudson and Glavine, I think I would take a rain check. They would have put me in a slump," Aaron quipped. "But baseball is baseball. I enjoy coming out to watch the kids practice. We did basically the same thing, but maybe it was a little bit tougher in my day because we did a little more running." Any lingering regrets about surrendering his home run record to Bonds? Not in the least. "I held it long enough," Aaron said. "I had it for 33 years. Hey, why not pass the torch on to someone else? It doesn't bother me."…”
Dressed casually in a Cuban-style shirt and khaki pants, Aaron's most pressing priority is taking care of his ailing right knee, which finally succumbed to his long career on the field and active post- retirement lifestyle. He struggles to get around, and his wife is trying to set up a date for knee-replacement surgery. "It's bone on bone," he said. "I don't know when I'm going to do it, but I am." Even with the pain in his knee, Aaron relishes being at spring training, especially on a day when he got to watch both Tom Glavine and Tim Hudson take the mound, marveling at them from behind the safety of the batting cage.
"If I had to take batting practice against guys like Hudson and Glavine, I think I would take a rain check. They would have put me in a slump," Aaron quipped. "But baseball is baseball. I enjoy coming out to watch the kids practice. We did basically the same thing, but maybe it was a little bit tougher in my day because we did a little more running." Any lingering regrets about surrendering his home run record to Bonds? Not in the least. "I held it long enough," Aaron said. "I had it for 33 years. Hey, why not pass the torch on to someone else? It doesn't bother me."…”
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