The bell tolls for thee, Roger Clemens.The New York Daily News is reporting today that Brian McNamee has physical evidence that Roger Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs. Considering Clemens just got done yesterday giving a deposition - under oath - to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, he better hope that physical evidence doesn't prove to show anything.
Otherwise, Clemens is officially going to fall into Barry Bonds territory - as in getting charged with perjury.
But in Bonds's case, there's basically only circumstantial evidence to nail him to the perjury charge.
However, with Clemens having given 5 hours of sworn deposition yesterday denying ever using anything, if McNamee's evidence pans out, we might as well just put Clemens in cuffs.
McNamee gave the Justice Department's BALCO investigators vials with traces of steroids and growth hormone, as well as blood-stained syringes and gauze pads that may contain the Rocket's DNA.
I'm not sure why in God's name McNamee would have hung onto syringes, but if he actually did, then he's smarter than us all - provided there's some steroid residue in there. Otherwise, it'll match Clemens's tale that he just got injected with Lidocaine and B12.
McNamee plans to discuss the evidence with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform tomorrow, when he is interviewed by the panel's attorneys in preparation for next Wednesday's congressional hearing on the challenges Clemens raised about the Mitchell Report.
McNamee seemingly has no rational reason to make this up, since he's facing jail time himself if he's lying. But one should probably ask why didn't he bring this evidence out earlier?
Regardless, I don't think McNamee's lying. And I think we're finally going to have real proof that Clemens was a full-fledged, official member of the Steroid Era.
Couldn't happen to a better guy.










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