As Clemens Goes To Trial, One Perspective

No one forced Clemens to talk to Congress that day. He could have exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination--just like Mark McGwire did--and refused to answer any questions. Then he could have slinked off into the sunset--just like McGwire did--to be resurrected by the baseball fraternity, if nothing else, at some future date. But Clemens chose to speak--and to contradict much of the narrative offered by others. He chose to do so for his own strategic and tactical reasons. And he should be held to account. Words matter--especially under oath. Actions have consequences--especially under oath. This trial will outline for us what the contours of those consequences are for Clemens. I have no problem with any of that.

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"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Jul 5, 2011 10:51 PM CDT reply actions

Was thinking of dead sax players. Thx.

Beware the cure isn't worse than the disease

by Chiburb on Jul 6, 2011 3:51 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions

What I do not understand

Is why his relationship which started with a girl that was 15 years old at the time isn’t talked more about. Clemen’s admits the relationship exists and called her a “close family friend”.

by 815Sox on Jul 6, 2011 5:21 PM CDT reply actions

get it straight, she was 16!, from wiki

On November 17, 2008, McCready spoke in more detail to Inside Edition about her affair with Clemens, stating that their relationship lasted for more than a decade, and that it ended when Clemens refused to leave his wife to marry McCready. However, she denied that she was fifteen years old when it began, saying that they met when she was sixteen and the affair only became sexual “several years later”.60 In another soon-to-be-released sex tape by Vivid Entertainment she claimed that the first time she had sex with him was when she was 21. She also claimed that he often had erectile dysfunction.61

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by onlysoxfaninbasel on Jul 7, 2011 1:51 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

she is all over the place with "when it began" but its obvious the relationship was unhealthy from the start

The News first reported in April 2008 that McCready had a lengthy, on-again, off-again relationship with the Rocket that began when she was 15 and lasted into 2006. McCready confirmed again Monday that she met Clemens in 1991, during spring training, a few months before she would turn 16. “I was 15 when we met,” she said.

As The News has reported, McCready met Clemens at a Fort Myers, Fla., karaoke bar and spent the night with him in his hotel room, although she said they did not have sex then.

by 815Sox on Jul 14, 2011 9:48 AM CDT up reply actions