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Congress to ask Clemens where he got his Rocket boost
By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin January 5, 2008 |
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With Roger Clemens and his former team mate Andy Pettitte being called to testify concerning the use of steroids injections at a scheduled congressional hearing, Clemens has emphasized for the cameras on the national prime-time news show 60 Minutes, that he never took illegal enhancing drugs, or steroids injected or otherwise. He told Mike Wallace in an interview that will air on Sunday Night on the CBS News show he swears on it that he never took steroids. Unless you are Roger Clemens or his former trainer Brian McNamee, you just really don't know and the only question that we have for Clemens is his age and how well he's done in the later years of his career pitching for either Houston or in New York because pitching is not a natural motion thing. You are really doing something that's really not natural for the arm. For a pitcher his age to be piling up the number of victories and other feats that he's done in pitching you really have to wonder. And the fact is that his trainer came out and said that the Rocket reportedly used steroids, and were having a hard time believing that he didn't do it because of his age because he was predicted when he was pitching particularly in his later years with the Red Sox that he was on the end of his career. Since then the Rocket has done some amazing things and you have to wonder how he would be able to accomplish that. So our argument would the big the big question how do you get better with age and pitch like that? There is no question that a number of players have used this to get better in the later years of their careers. Rocket's attitude on the steroids accusations: When with the Yankees or Astros or Blue Jays, and talk about Clemens attitude it was horrible when he was with the Red Sox when he started out. We would remember going into the Boston clubhouse back in the day and Clemens would throw tantrums after losing to the A's in the playoffs series at the Coliseum. Now there are worse people around in baseball with a bad attitudes but he didn't have the worse attitude. You know Clemens is a competitor and you have to respect that and obviously even if he did use the drugs certainly he's had a major career. Because of his age and what he's accomplished in the last few years no other pitcher has done that with a couple of exceptions. Clemens is an unusual pitcher he's denying it but we would like to know how he was able to make those kind of accomplishments when nobody else was able to do it? Ex-mate Andy Pettitte to join Rocket at Congressional hearings: In the congressional hearings they will not learn anything more than they already know now and were not sure if Congress should be fooling around with this now with all the major problems we have. The only recommendation for Congress would be is knowing baseball really doesn't want to do anything baseball has known about this problem and in some cases knew of some players who were actually doing it and baseball didn't do anything knowing what was going on. Baseball was chasing the almighty dollar and part of that venture was looking the other way while the players were juicing. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig will be asked at the hearings if he knew full well if he was aware of players juicing under his nose and he looked the other way. The fans love this game for the long ball and the power. Clemens and Pettitte provided power that fans loved to come out and see. They were the Yankees and Astros one two punch and they delivered, they were proven, they got their teams to the fall classic and everyone knew what they were in for when Clemens and Pettitte were scheduled to go in a post season rotation they were going to see some great pitching. At his old age Clemens could not keep up that kind of work unless he had some help. Was it help from B-12 and lidocaine as he says to reduce stress and pain in his throwing arm? Or was it the juice that McNamee says he was injecting in his pitching arm to get the Rocket ready for his next turn in the rotation after he just threw his arm off and needed something to take the edge off and get ready for the next start. As far as Pettitte was concerned he has already admitted to taking HGH right after the Mitchell report came out. Whether Mitchell does anything about Pettitte is another story if Pettitte returns back to the game or not. Pettitte will probably tell congress the same thing he told us that he used HGH for a short time and stopped. This was the same thing that F.P. Santangelo the former Giants and A's infielder told the media after he was named in the report that he used it shortly to recover from an injury and like Matt Williams and down the line. There is no doubt that Congress will ask Pettitte about his steroid use, where he got the juice from, if any trainer had injected him, why he used it, and the coup de grass did he have knowledge whatsoever if Roger Clemens his friend and team mate used it. Even so the Rocket is going to maintain his stance that he never juiced. Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin are covering the BALCO/steroids scandal in MLB and can both be heard on Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento. |
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