I think Clemens was lying.

Hate to say it, but Clemens. A professional athlete is going to know what he is being injected with and what for.

As a real baseball fan, and someone who has traveled to spring Astros camp, I have to say it… Clemens wasn’t exactly approachable, ever. Biggio, Bagwell, and the others spent time with their fans… not King Roger.

He needs to fess up. I respect guys like Giambi and others who came clean on their streroid use. I do not respect someone who is obviously not able to come to terms with his own mistakes. A lie begets a lie Roger…

I believe that Clemens is lying through his teeth and time that he threw the jagged end of a broken bat was roid rage plus all the times that he deliberately hit batters in the head!

If this is all Congress has to do, we need to demand a Rebate ! I say let’s CUT their Salary to Minimum Wage, take away their FREE Health Care, Tax them on Money from lobbyists and see how many of them will Run for Office again !

I agree with comment by Hank.

I am with Hank again!

I’m with Hank too, but that doesn’t make it an issue worthy of Congressional/Senatorial import when baseball is so corrupt, and steroid use is rampant even at the high school level.

I do think this needs to be addressed.

As a lifetime Red Sox fan, I used to look up to the Rocket as a hero. He really wore out his welcome in Boston. He was totally pampered as a super star, and had a giant ego. A legendary local sportswriter here dubbed him “the Texas Con-man”. There is no question in my mind that he took steroids and is lying about it. Consider the rage he showed in “the Subway” world series against the Mets. It’s no coincidence that that was right in the timeframe that McNamee said he was shooting Clemens up with steroids. It was ‘roid rage.

Clemens is the guy with something to lose. He has positioned himself well to pull off this lie, which will likely stand. Besides,… it’s not like the nation cares if someone lies under oath. Not long ago we had president that admitted to lying and was impeached because of it, and still he was acquitted and “allowed” to carry on as president. So what does lying under oath even mean any more? Not much! Nice precedent Mr. President!!!

Regarding Hanks comments: Public service was meant to be a duty not unlike jury duty. It was meant for people of merit to be, more or less, pushed into it. Despite this, people have sought after positions of power, which reminds me of the old cliche,…” beware of giving power to those who seek it”. We get the leaders we deserve. Term limits is the only answer to get better deserving leaders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hank is right, the left wing congress ought to stick to things that should concern all the peaple of this nation. not the things that the mlb should worry about. the congress is trying to shove sosholisim doun our throats.

I’m very saddened by what Clemens and Bond, and their trainers have done to this All American sport. It can be traced to their lust for fame and fortune and facilitated by lies. Baseball has a record of cleaning up its own problems. The time has come to get away from the “so prove it” mentality. This has been fueled by a race for records, titles, and lucrative contracts assisted by lazy lawyers and some fans, like players, hoping to make big bucks on such things as the memorabilia market. Every time an athlete resorts to performance enhancing drugs they are no better than the flimflam artists working a carnival sideshow, a plagiarist, or a counterfeiter. They have used the excuse much like a child who says, “everyone else is doing it, so why can’t I?”. They have built their reputations on the honest players who preceded them. The industry needs a good shaking up and the best way to start this painful process is from the bottom. That’s right, “fans” becoming “fan-outs” and leaving the hopped up steroid/HGH fakes to play to an empty house. If it works like a lot of similar scenarios, the honest players will take it upon themselves to clean-up the mess with locker-room justice as their own lively-hoods is at stake. In essence the “enhanced” players are making it not just difficult for the clean players to compete against but dangerous to play against these hairtrigger, souped-up bozos. What I think is causing this menace to finally come out of the dugout, so to speak, is the fact steroid cause of many injuries and death to the user and intentionally or not to the honest players. Now this problem can no longer be swept off home plate like dust. The fakes, phonies, and frauds have to step up to the plate and be held accountable.

So to answer your question, Jamie, I believe Clemens and McNamee are lying under oath and to the fans and congress at their own, and all sport’s expense. My hat is off to those players who play honest baseball and sports. They truly love the game that is our National Pass-time, a game we want back.

I just don’t understand how you could let someone inject you with something and not know what it is. If someone was doing that to me, I’d sure like to know exactly what was going in me. Unless Clemens trusted him so much he didn’t worry about it, and McNamee lied about it to him. Either way, I agree with everyone else, that this issue is not important enough for Congress to get involved in when we have so many other more pressing problems. And now they want to get into the NFL “spygate” mess. Geez, is Arlen Spector still upset that the Pats beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl??

I think Clemens is lying. But, seriously, doesn’t Congress have better things to do. Everyone knows that MLB has had one the worst testing processes in professional sports. Aren’t there immagration bills, national security issues, and other much more important tasks that we pay them to do. Congress! Stop wasting our time and money!

ok so your telling me that gas is 104 dollars a barrel. green eco freaks are burning down houses, bush wants to spy on everyone in the world,convicted rapist are winning millions, the economy is in the worst start of a major depression since 29, the fed is going to bankrupt the world with another rate cut,south america is on the brink of civil war which we are involved with, its like everything we touch gets killed goes to war or is some poverty mode,and this goverment is worried about some guy that wants to have a big forehead and a small penis from taking steroids? its beyond intelligent reasoning, in fact it makes no sence, has no bearing on life and further more anyone that cares needs to make an appointment with a shrink, its a shame that this goverment doesnt take the same elixcer as they had at jim jones camp and spare everyone there stupid lips from moving,or there stupid minds from working,

Jamie, this has nothing to do with this topic, but I just wanted to suggest a possible storyline for you. Something has gone terribly wrong with the 911 system and it deserves some investigation.

The latest 911 that is making its way around the media has to do with the family massacre in Texas. It demonstrates a heartless person ill-equipped to take emergency calls and respond appropriately.

Not once did I hear the dispatcher offer even the most routine medical advice. No compresses for bleeding wounds, no covering for possible loss of body heat, not so much as the recommendation of a pillow to comfort the victims wounded head. The 911 dispatcher wasted precious minutes trying to telepathically investigate a crime.

Has the 911 service lost sight of its initial obligation in emergency situations? Has this “investigative” practice taken precedence? Is this new policy, or have armchair sleuths overtaken the emergency care system?

Clemens reminds me of being above the law and would not want an asterick next to his name like Bonds has at all costs – even perjury. I think he misremembers what he told Andy Pettite. It’s never the crime, always the cover up that gets people in trouble… Watergate, stains on blue dresses, need I go on?

Hank and Vince are right. When I first saw this on TV, I thought, what in the $%## is going on here. Congress is stepping way over their bounds. Baseball is a private industry, athletes have been juicin for decades, nothin new here. What does baseball have to do with running this nation ? The last time I checked, it had nothing to do with national security, the economy or waves of illegal aliens invading our country.

These morons need to take some epicac, purge the idiot pills they take after lunch and get back to running this country.

It is now official — terrorism is no longer a threat. How do I know this? Because the Justice Dept. is asking the FBI to investigate whether or not Roger Clemens committed perjury. Right now, I am watching Jamie report that FBI crime cases are down 40%. Therefore, they need to turn their attention on the great threat of grown men who play a game for a living — in this case a man who throws a ball.

I don’t care if a grown man wants to enhance his performance by taking any substance. To make a federal issue out of this situation is ridiculous.

For the U.S. Congress to take two seconds on this issue is two seconds too many. It is all about face time before the camera — it has nothing to do with their constitutional duties.

Let MLB decide how and if they want to even deal with issue and tell the FBI, the Justice Dept. and congress to back off.

well, if this guy was a friend of bushes he could get this taken care of, but im thinking -not! oh well, but im glad the fbi is so involved, ,you know i think all those guys should get a raise, in fact im going to contact mr bush and see if we can get them another ,say 2.1 billion, for new stuff and frivilus court hereings, but what im hoping for is that they find out this low life professional player had not only used drugs but takin them, then we can hang him by the neck until hes hung, then we can proceed ahead to get more real criminals off the streets if we go forward, further if we can add to the budget of the fbi to be on the lookout for everyones protection then perhaps we.ll be more protected,
its comforting to know that our goverment and its agencys are trying to get these steroid drug guys off the streets ,and it takes the heat off the organized gangs who need the relief to get more organized to sell real drugs, and those atf guys, i know its pretty scary to go into large ghettos today and look for gang bad guys, but perhaps when these gang guys decide to kill a few hundred rivals or bystanders they can follow them home and catch them with there automatic armorys, i just want to say thanks to our special services for there part, and rather than pass laws putting you in prison for being in a gang or deporting you im glad to know that there using there power and this peoples money to go after guys like this, maby this will scare the m-13 guys into going to church next sunday and beg for forgiveness, well i know i sleep better knowing that our justice system is working togather with the agencys to clean up this unbelievable criminal element in out society, thanks guys!!!well its probly easier to wait untill late night and bust down the doors of iraqie women and children with a few squads of snipers and threatin them anyway, but! im sure if you asked that gw would give you the go ahead to take a few hundred tough fbi guys in these areas and clean up, it might be a little illegal but im sure if you are working for gw you wont have any probloms, just dont take any camars!!! lol just think if we spend alot of time looking for these terrorist in other countrys it will help them that are already here to get more weapons, and not only that but i think the first step is to get this steroid user off the streets,send them the message boys!!! you bulk up your going down!!!

and jamie! still the hottest women in the news ,wow!