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To: stockman_scott who wrote (5955)	1/8/2008 1:18:17 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29249

Although I'm a Yankees fan, I've never really been a Clemens fan. I've admired him to a degree, but never been a fan. I've always wondered how someone of his age can keep going and always wondered if steroids was a reason. The moment I heard someone confessed to giving him steroids I was not surprised. That being said, though, I still was quite impressed by his denials and truly did find myself believing him. Clemens is absolutely right that he shouldn't have to prove he did not take steroids. That's unfair. What McNamee has going for him is Pettite's admission and thus validation of McNamee's claim of injecting him with HGH. Almost like that's proof enough. But is it? Clemens claims that McNamee was pressed to name him, a big name, in order to show he delivered and thus avoid jail time. I urge everyone to listen to the phone call snippet here: nytimes.com . On the one hand, you wonder why Clemens would even bother to tape the call knowing full well that if were guilty that all McNamee would have to say is something like: "Roger, I wanted to protect you, I really did... but I had no choice but to tell the truth. I'm sorry, but I had a sick kid and I couldn't afford to go to jail for lying." No, McNamee did not say that. But he did say "the truth is the truth; it is what it is" which is pretty damning in and of itself although Clemens begins to talk over that as if he didn't hear it. McNamee asks over and over again what Clemens wants him to do. Clemens could/should have said "Brian, I didn't do steroids. That's the truth and you know it. All I want you to do is tell the truth." I'd have also said "Brian, since we both know I didn't do steroids, I'm going to assume there was a real compelling reason why you lied about me. Right? Let's talk about that." Instead he talks about how this has hurt him and his family and almost makes it like Brian owes it to them to tell a different truth. The only middle ground here, again, is that Clemens put his trust in McNamee to inject him with whatever stuff McNamee knew would make him stronger... with explicit instructions that as long as McNamee thought it was "safe" that he use his own discretion. The truth might well be that Winstrol wasn't marketed as being steroids per se, but rather a wonder drug. This allows Clemens to legitimately say he didn't knowingly do steroids and McNamee to say, in retrospect, that he did. - Jeff