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tirk · Feb 13, 2008

10:47 a.m. ET
Rep. Waxman's opening statement covered so much ground, it's tough to summarize it all. But let's just say he didn't mess around.

• He praised Andy Pettitte effusively for his honesty, saying "Mr. Pettitte's honesty makes him a role model, on and off the field." Again, this was an ominous sign for the committee's willingness to believe Clemens' side of the story.

• Rep. Waxman made it obvious somebody is going to be charged with perjury once this hearing concludes -- because "it's impossible to believe this was a simple misunderstanding. Someone isn't telling the truth."

• He said that if Brian McNamee isn't telling the truth about Clemens, that's "inexcusable." But if Clemens isn't telling the truth about McNamee, "he's acting shamefully." And Rep. Waxman reiterated he doesn't see how there's any gray area. One is lying. One is telling the truth. "And I don't think there's anything in between."

• Waxman said, unequivocably, that McNamee's accounts were "bolstered" by the testimony of Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch. Again, not good news for the Rocket.

• Waxman did scold McNamee for failing to tell investigators the whole truth on two occasions -- once when he was questioned about the infamous Florida date-rape incident several years ago, the other when he failed to tell prosecutors the full extent of how often he injected Clemens and McNamee because, in McNamee's words, he was trying not to hurt the guy." Waxman then said, firmly, "That's no excuse."

• Finally, Waxman went through a long list of areas in which Clemens' account was "in direct conflict" with the testimony of McNamee and Pettitte. Waxman particularly singled out Clemens' alleged conversations about HGH with Pettitte -- one in 1999 or 2000, the other in 2005. In the first, Pettitte testified that Clemens told him he'd used HGH. In the second, Clemens claimed Pettitte had misunderstood and that he'd actually said his wife had used HGH. Waxman said Clemens and McNamee agreed that McNamee had injected Debbie Clemens in 2003. And that, Waxman said, "makes it impossible" that Clemens could have told Pettitte three or four years earlier that his wife was the HGH user, not him.

So unless the Rocket can explain his way out of all those "inconsistencies" clearly and convincingly, that perjury charge is going to be almost inescapable. Isn't it?
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10:59 a.m. ET
The big moment from McNamee's statement:

"I never injected Mr. Clemens or anyone else with lidocaine or B-12. I have no reason to lie -- and every reason not to."

A moment later:

"I told the investigators I injected three people -- two of whom I know confirmed my account. The third is sitting at this table."
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:tigbas:

tirk · Feb 13, 2008

11:29 a.m. ET
And obviously, Rep. Cummings doesn't believe any of Roger's story. Any of it.

Three direct questions from Cummings:

• "Mr. Pettitte said he had 'no doubt' about his recollection. ... Why would he tell Congress that one of his closest friends was taking an illegal performance-enhancing drug if there was any doubt in his mind?"

• On Pettitte's wife, Laura, also saying Pettitte had told her that Clemens had admitted using HGH: "If that conversation never happened, why would Laura Pettitte remember that conversation?"

• "What possible reason would Mr. Pettitte have to fabricate a statement about you, his friend?"

Clemens' answer: "Andy would have no reason to."
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ketchup gate II

Curt Schilling had the bloody sock. Roger now has the bloody pants.

Rep. Davis reported that McNamee had testified that Mike Stanton once noticed that Clemens was bleeding through his dress pants -- which caused him to start carrying band aids around, presumably for his bleeding butt. Yikes.

Prompting the following surreal exchange:

Davis: "Mr. Clemens, do you recall bleeding through your pants in 2001?"

Clemens: "I do not."
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tirk · Feb 13, 2008

12:29 p.m. ET
Rep. Stephen Lynch turned his attention to an issue I thought I'd never see discussed on national television, from the floor of Congress -- a "palpable mass" on Clemens' buttock.

Lynch recounted how the Blue Jays' team doctor admitted he had given Clemens a vitamin B-12 shot. But Lynch said the doctor and the training staff said they'd never seen a reaction to a B-12 shot as severe as Clemens' reaction.

So the committee submitted Clemens' MRI to an expert on MRIs, Dr. Mark Murphy. And Dr. Murphy, according to Lynch, said the mass was "more compatible with Winstrol injections" than with B-12 injections.

Asked to explain this, Clemens threw the doctor under the team bus, saying, "I hate to get on Dr. Taylor ... but if he gave me a bad shot, he gave me a bad shot."
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1:16 p.m. ET
Nanny-gate.

Oh no.

Did the Rocket really invite his old nanny to the house to suggest she testify that she didn't remember that party at Canseco's house? Or was he just trying, in his words, "to do the committee a favor" by tracking her down?

I have no idea. But Rep. Henry Waxman sure seemed to think something funny went on, claiming Clemens' lawyers delayed giving the committee the nanny's name and number until after they'd had a chance to meet with her first.

"There will always be a question now about whether you tried to influence her testimony," Waxman said.

"I'm hurt by those statements, that I'd get in the way of anything you guys were looking for," Clemens replied.
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:lol:

Nutriaitch · Feb 13, 2008

You can't write TV this good

tirk · Feb 13, 2008

"Why did you keep this man? It's very simple," Norton said. "He did some pretty horrendous things."

"I'm a forgiving person," Clemens said, finally.

Oh. That explains it.

That satisfied Rep. Norton, anyhow.

"Mr. Clemens," she concluded. "All I can say is, I'm sure you're going to heaven."
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oh god help us.

tirk · Feb 13, 2008

Nutriaitch said: ↑

You can't write TV this good
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lsubatgirl04 · Feb 13, 2008

You're famous. Can I have your autograph?

tirk · Feb 13, 2008

lsubatgirl04 said: ↑

You're famous. Can I have your autograph?
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OkieTigerTK · Feb 13, 2008

Nutriaitch said: ↑

You can't write TV this good
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no joke. get some more popcorn and scoot over.

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tirk · Feb 13, 2008

can we lock the voyeurs out?