Wow! This is so much fun…for me at least!

I really don’t like Roger Clemens, and it wasn’t shocking when he was fingered as a steroid user, but I have to give it to him and Brian McNamee. It seems they are trying to overtake LOST for the most number of plot twists and turns.

The McNamee/Clemens duo should even think about taking their act on the road because combined they are making the countdown to spring training entertaining and interesting. It’s comical at the least, and hilarious at best.

The whole saga is like Rocky and Clubber Lang exchanging blows back and forth. We’re just left to wonder who is going to come out as Rocky and who is going to tire out and falter like Mr. T.

The two warring sides have pulled out everything from emotional accusations to recorded phone conversations to photos to the Clemens’s camp’s latest ploy of a statistical analysis. Here’s a quick and un-thorough wrap up of what has transpired:

- McNamee, a former cop and Clemens’ former trainer with the New York Yankees, heavily implicates Clemens in the now infamous Mitchell Report. McNamee states he injected Clemens on 16 occasions in ‘98, ‘00, & ‘01
- When the Mitchell Report is released, Clemens vehemently refutes ever taking steroids or performance enhancing drugs (including his rant on 60 minutes about not receiving one inch of respect).
- Clemens records a phone conversation with McNamee where he tries to con McNamee into saying something that can be used against McNamee, but McNamee never claims he has lied and simply asks Roger: “What do you want me to do?” Clemens and his lawyers then released the audio to the media, even though it had no implications and, therefore, had no impact.
- The two are summoned and have to speak in front of Congress (now it becomes a federal issue). Clemens again denies. Round one.
- In round two on Capitol Hill, McNamee brings photos of syringes, bloody gauze pads, vials that contained steroids, and a crumpled beer can. The evidence from the photos is given to investigators for DNA testing that could link Roger.
- The Clemens camp releases a statistical analysis of the pitcher’s career in an attempt to show through his, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling’s stats that his rejuvenation late in his 30s and early 40s was not unusual
- Now get this one…McNamee claims he injected Clemens’ wife, Debbie, with HGH prior to this Sports Illustrated swimsuit photo shoot (her muscles dwarf mine)
- Four Penn professors have since said of the report: “The statistics do not point to innocence. We are not saying that the numbers show guilt, but we are saying that the statistics show that something unusual happened in Clemens’ career as he entered his 30s.”
And on Wednesday, Congress will be questioning Clemens, McNamee, Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch, and former Mets clubbie and convicted steroids distributor Kirk Radomski. Yet, with Clemens latest sycophantic behavior while in Washington, he may have swayed some of the Congress members into his favor, so Congress may not full-heartedly try to get to the bottom of everything as ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski suggests.

Hopefully, they will finally come to some sort of conclusion, and we’ll see the last of Roger Clemens or Brian McNamee for awhile…or at least until the two do a world tour together.

Shotgun Spratling

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