THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Monday, January 07, 2008

Clemens recording

I don’t normally like to get involved in these speculative discussions/issues, but after listening to the tape of the Clemens/McNamee phone conversation, there is little doubt in my mind that Clemens is a lying sack of ****.  There is also little doubt in my mind that he is also dumb as a brick.

So, is it just me, or is Clemens essentially saying on the phone, “I can’t believe you ratted me out,” and, “I just want you to tell the truth (wink, wink)?” You call a guy up and tape him with the expressed purpose of proving your innocence to the world, and you never say something like, “We all know that you never injected me with steroids or HGH.  Why did you lie and say that you did?” It is unfathomable that ANYONE would not say that in that conversation IF they were telling the truth and if their intention was to prove that to the world.  Unfathomable as in there is a 99% chance that Clemens is a liar and has weaved a tangled web.  I only hope for his sake that no one can prove that HE is lying, which is probably the case.  The first rule of defense is that if you know or are pretty sure that your adversary cannot prove their allegations, is to deny them to the hilt, even if they are true.  That appears to be what Clemens is doing.  I say that there is little doubt in my mind that Clemens is stupid (and his lawyer is borderline incompetent) because to think that that tape recording is going to HELP his cause is preposterous.  That tape recording was the biggest joke (sad is more like it) that I have ever heard.