On the Yankees beat

Two old war horses way past their prime.
Maybe Roger is consiously lying, plain and simple, but my hunch is Roger almost believes what he is saying. I have known a few highly narcissistic personalities in my day and my experience with them has been that they experience reality differently.

Roger has devoted almost every hour of his his life to making himself into an icon; "the greatest pitcher of all time." I can sort of understand why he can't concieve that the fall from grace is possible. Hopefully someone can talk some sense into him before the federal agent "Elliot Ness" Novitsky gets hold of him, cause he will be doing jail time.

WOW!!!, This guy really believes in this day and age that by coming on TV and answering Wallace's questions that were probably rehearsed over and over, that I for one is going to believe him.

Go in front of congress, swear under oath, say you didn't do anything then I might just believe you. Other than that, its spin control in rare form and everyday that goes by he will becomes the pitcher side of Barry Bonds!!!

http://madein1903.com/

He's lying, just like ARod was lying a few weeks ago....what a loser.....I hope they go after him in Congress and he gets in big trouble. He ought to make a call to barry bonds and find out how well lying worked out for him! Good luck!

Why is everyone wanting to diss this guy? I for one beleive him at his word. We live in a country where you are innocent until proven guilty. I think he deserves this much.

olyankeeno7,

This is a blog, not a court of law.
It will be near impossible to find him guilty in a court of law...

But man, you'd have to admit this looks bad.

The thing that gets to me is the changing of the story.

"He never injected me with anything."
"Oh wait! He DID inject me. I forgot. But it was a B-12 shot. Given to me by a trainer instead of a doctor and in my apartment instead of the training room or a doctors office"

When people start changing their stories as information comes out, it looks bad. REAL bad.

And oh yeah, the guy injecting him sells steroids, injected Pettiitte with HGH and Clemens' body growth and production spike is eerily similar to Barry Bonds.

I am not a Clemens hater. I have two autographed pictures of him in my room.

I am also not a Bonds hater either.

It looks bad.

Steroids Nothing New Throughout Baseball History.

Former pitcher Tom House describes past steroid use when he was with the Red Sox and Hank Aaron (shock, shock).

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)— Former major league pitcher Tom House used steroids during his career and said performance-enhancing drugs were widespread in baseball in the 1960s and 1970s, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.
House, perhaps best known for catching Hank Aaron's 715th home run ball in 1974 in the Atlanta Braves' bullpen, said he and several teammates used amphetamines, human growth hormone and "whatever steroid" they could find in order to keep up with the competition.

"I pretty much popped everything cold turkey," House said. "We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses. That was the '60s, when nobody knew. The good thing is, we know now. There's a lot more research and understanding."

House, a former pitching coach with the Texas Rangers and co-founder of the National Pitching Association near San Diego, is one of the first players to describe steroid use as far back as the 1960s.

He was drafted in 1967 by the Braves and pitched eight seasons for Atlanta, Boston and Seattle, finishing his career with a 29-23 record and 3.79 ERA.

House, 58, estimated that six or seven pitchers per team were at least experimenting with steroids or human growth hormone. He said players talked about losing to opponents using more effective drugs.

"We didn't get beat, we got out-milligrammed," he said. "And when you found out what they were taking, you started taking them."

House said he gained almost 30 pounds while using steroids, blaming the extra weight for contributing to knee problems. He said the drugs helped improve recovery time and conditioning but did not add velocity to his fastball.

"I tried everything known to man to improve my fastball, and it still didn't go faster than 82 miles per hour," House said. "I was a failed experiment."

"I'd like to say we were smart, but we didn't know what was going on," he said. "We were at the tail end of a generation that wasn't afraid to ingest anything.

Bottom line is this:
If Clemens gave Macnamee the stuff to inject, Macnamee can't prove that the stuff was steroids UNLESS he tested the stuff personally. That is probably why Clemens did not request Macnamee to do anything but inject him and is currently sueing him. Easy case to win, but will never completely clear Roger's name. Main difference between him and Bonds is Bonds said he did not know the stuff he was rubbing on was steroids, thought it was "flax seed" oil, but was steroids. Clemens flat out denies any steroid use.
Since ML baseball did not have these substances on any banned list, both Bonds and Clemens will not be kept out of the Hall of Fame.
Still think Grampa Mitchell's "Yankee Report" was not a report on baseball, which should have mentioned each ML team and all minor league clubs, down to Rookie ball. A report of this nature would have taken 3-5 years and would have been considered complete. Not like the slanted report our Bosox shareholder and employee wrote.
Where are the Red Sox players - Greenwell,Nomor, the "garbage" reserve outfielder who fought Sturtze, Fisk, etc?
Nice job, Grampa!

Some of what we have heard so far is true, some is a lie. We will never know all the truth. Some that did it will never be known. Some that didn't do it will be suspected or accused. Some will continue to use. Some are using it right now. More will be caught. More will get away with it. This story will go on for decades and never be resolved. Worse than all that, in 2 weeks, Hughes & Melky will be Twins.

Mike from Jersey,

Those might not have been on baseball's banned list, but guess what... it was illegal then and it is illegal now

Not illegal like "throwing a pitch without coming to a complete stop" illegal but illegal like "against the laws of the United States of America."

As far as I know MLB hasn't banned skinning a panda alive in their collective bargaining agreement either

That's illegal too.

And I don't want to warn you of that again, Viper!

(I want to start a rumor that Viper is a panda skinner. Why? Because it is late and I am in a strange mood.)