The United States' House of Representatives' Oversight and Government Reform Committee will have several of their attorneys ask Roger Clemens questions concerning his involvement in the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs during his stellar career in Major League Baseball. Clemens and two of his attorneys are currently in attendance answering questions while this report is being written. The Mitchell Report, which became public last December, mentioned Mr. Clemens 82 different times leading people to conclude that Roger Clemens was indeed using illegal PHD's. Clemens then, in no uncertain terms, denied any involvement as he slammed his former personal trainer Brian McNamee who gave very damaging testamony to Senator Mitchell's investigators concerning both Roger Clemens and Clemens' former teammate on both the New York Yankees and Houston Astros, Andy Pettite.
McNamee is scheduled to meet with these same House Oversight and Government Reform Committee attorneys this Thursday to also answer questions concerning the Mitchell Report and his involvement with Clemens, Pettite and another former Yankee, Chuck Knoblauch, who spoke to the committee's attorneys last Friday. McNamee claimed to have injected Knoblauch with Human Growth Hormones in the Mitchell Report. He also admitted to obtaining Human Growth Hormones and anabolic steroids from former New York Mets clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski. Radomski pleaded guilty in April to federal felony charges of distributing steroids and laundering money and awaits sentencing.
"Brian's position is, 'Let's deal with the truth,'" said Earl Ward, McNamee's attorney. "That's his position." McNamee will tell Congress more about his knowledge of Clemens' use of performance-enhancing drugs, says Ward, including his belief that Clemens was treated for an abscess on his buttocks in 1998, around the time McNamee says he began injecting Clemens. According to a source, McNamee didn't initially tell federal investigators about the abscess but says he is now "willing to talk about it with Congress."
Pettite, who answered the committee attorney's questions for two and a half hours yesterday, added credence to McNamee's Mitchell Report indicments as he admitted to the use of human growth hormones on two separate occasions. Mr. Pettite, who stated he was injected with this PHD by Brian McNamee in an effort to speed his recovery from an injury, made his public admission two days after the Mitchell Report came out.
Andy Pettite seen in a different striped suit yesterday...
Former Senator George Mitchell, who oversaw baseball's investigation into the use of PHD's in the sport, and Major League Baseball Commissioner, Bud Selig, both gave public testamony in mid-January to this same committee. One pertinent question Senator Mitchell responded to concerned his thoughts on the reliability of Brian McNamee's answers to his investigator's questions. Mitchell told the committee that he felt confident McNamee had been forthright.
In addition, Jim Murray, an employee of the sports agency that represents Clemens and Pettitte, answered the committee's questions last Thurday.
Concerning Roger Clemens, this will mark the first time he has made his pitch answering PHD questions under oath.
In every case, all the parties have and will meet with the committee's attorneys voluntarily.
All of this questioning is in preparation for a public hearing that will take place February 13th. California Representative Henry Waxman will chair the Oversight and Government Reform Committee as they attempt to get to the bottom of this phase of disclosure into America's use of performance enhancing drugs. It should be very interesting...
Dwindy1
I bet there's no 'man love' there between Pettite and Clemens ?
No more hom*o erotic tendencies there one might think ?
Those two are the Yankees' version of the characters from Brokeback Mountain. 'I don't know how I'll ever get over you ........Roger'.
'Just bend over Andy and I'll show you how Andy '.
Way to go guys !
You'll come to deserve everything you're going to get.
topahtal .............
Last edited by tophatal on February 5th at 1:29 PM.
Dwindy1
I bet there's no 'man love' there between Pettite and Clemens ?
No more hom*o erotic tendencies there one might think ? Best friends or not that's a love affair that's about to end.
Those two are the Yankees' version of the characters from Brokeback Mountain. 'I don't know how I'll ever get over you ........Roger'.
'Just bend over Andy and I'll show you how Andy '.
Way to go guys !
You'll come to deserve everything you're going to get.
topahtal .............
Last edited by tophatal on February 5th at 1:30 PM.
dwindy; this whole subject is wearin me out, and we might have a couple of years to go. more players,more hearings, on and on. but i am curious to see how much pettite says about his buddy.
on another note, mr. smart eagle; i can count.
"im not dumb,im smaat,not dumb, not like everbody says and i want respect" ( fredo ) lol
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It will be interesting how Roger gets out of this one... Andy Pettite made the right choice on his own deal, I don't know if he'll try to protect Clemens under oath. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
I'm hoping this hearing will blow this thing wide open and all the lawyers will be pumping their arms and shouting "YES!!!" Cause there's gonna be some bucks going their way...
Dwindy 1
Clemens is the Ennis Del Mar character in this little melodrama. He's now stating that he won't plead the fifth . So as of now we don't know what he's got in store for us all.
Pettite and his religious beliefs were his guiding choice. He wasn't going to go into court and perjure himself.
That'd appear to be the one good thing he had going for him. Pity the same thing can't be said about Clemens. As he's of the belief that he's entitled to something because he's graced the game with his presence. To my mind he's a conceited as*shole and he's begun to show it.
If he had the presence of mind why didn't he ask McNamee during the taped conversation why he was supposedly lying. Not once did he do that.
That to me has to be the telling thing in all of this.
Roger hasn't punked me but he's going to get punked himself.
There's more of this to come and it'll play out for the public's consumption.
You know there's a lot of truth in your comment about the player's association. Why aren't they up there giving testament? They sure as heck advise the players concerning these matters...
Think about this... The Dems control congress (witness Waxman chairing this committee) and they're in bed with the unions... Nuf said?
Dwindy1
At the end of the day I think Roger's lawyers will be waiting to see if a plea agreement'll be reached. 'cause once that happens they can spin things anyway they want.
They'll try to use the fact that Roger hasn't freely admitted to any wrongdoing just perhaps to the fact that he may have been mislead by McNamee. Looking to place the blame elsewhere as he's now doing. It's as I've alluded to before there's more to this than meets the eye. And it's yet to be determined as to who's telling the 'real truth' . We'll just have to wait and see whilst everything foments.
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his involvement in the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs during his stellar career in Major League Baseball. Clemens and two of his attorneys are currently in attendance answering questions while this report is being written. The Mitchell Report, which became public last December, mentioned Mr. Clemens 82 different times leading people to conclude that Roger Clemens was indeed using illegal PHD's. Clemens then, in no uncertain terms, denied any involvement as he slammed his former personal trainer Brian McNamee who gave very damaging testamony to Senator Mitchell's investigators concerning both Roger Clemens and Clemens' former teammate on both the New York Yankees and Houston Astros, Andy Pettite. 
Mitchell Report and his involvement with Clemens, Pettite and another former Yankee, Chuck Knoblauch, who spoke to the committee's attorneys last Friday. McNamee claimed to have injected Knoblauch with Human Growth Hormones in the Mitchell Report. He also admitted to obtaining Human Growth Hormones and anabolic steroids from former New York Mets clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski. Radomski pleaded guilty in April to federal felony charges of distributing steroids and laundering money and awaits sentencing. 
yesterday, added credence to McNamee's Mitchell Report indicments as he admitted to the use of human growth hormones on two separate occasions. Mr. Pettite, who stated he was injected with this PHD by Brian McNamee in an effort to speed his recovery from an injury, made his public admission two days after the Mitchell Report came out. 
