Clemen's about to be roasted alive!

[eGameUsed]

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There is a reason why Al Capone went to jail for illegal gambling and alcohol/drug smuggling? He kept very good records! The IRS intentionally put a line on Income Tax forms that stated "Income from Illegal Gambling Winnings." Capone didn't check the box and he got busted for tax evasion. Criminals generally keep very good records in their private circle of trust, so they can track who owes them what and what they did.

I too think Brian McNamee has a stash of vials for everyone he worked on!

If people are smart enough to not leave evidence, why did all those players in the Mitchell Report write personal checks to Radamski? If I was a baseball player and want HGH, I guarantee I am not going to write a personal check. I am going to have someone else pay cash!

[cjclong]

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We'll just have to let this thing play out and see what happens. I was skeptical of Clemons when Pettitte backed up what McNamee said about HGH and I'm also skeptical of the syringe evidence. Normally people don't keep evidence of their crime so they can work a deal on their case in the event they caught 6 or 7 years later. They get rid of it. I can't think of any logical reason why McNamee would have wanted to prove he was giving drugs to Clemens back then. At that point in time he would have wanted everyone to believe he had nothing to do with it. There are only two possible reasons he would have kept the bloody syringes. One would be to black mail Clemens. But in order to do that he would have had to threaten to go public with the information, which Clemens would have known he couldn't do because he would be confessing to a crime and risk arrest and prosecution. The other reason would be, as has been speculated, to use the evidence that could help convict him of drug dealing to rat out Clemens and get a deal on his case. For that to be the true he would have had to have the foresight to know if he were charged with a crime the Mitchell report would be headline news and the Feds and Congress would have a huge interest in which players were using drugs. Would any of us here made that prediction in 2000? I doubt it. I know Clemens attorney Rusty Hardin ,is an excellent lawyer with a good reputation for honesty. If Clemens is lying he is really letting him get out on a limb. Its possible everything McNamee is saying is true, but the syringe stuff flies in the face of how most people act and the press seems to accept it all as true . As I said at the start, I'm skeptical of both sides and we need to test all the stories before we accept any of them as true.

[BMH]

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Keeping the syringe is odd, but then I know a certain young woman who kept a blue dress with some "stains" on it...

[cjclong]

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I hope McNamee didn't have the same attachment to the syringes and bloody gauze the young woman had to the dress.

[cjw]

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I worked at the SkyDome Hotel as a Concierge for both of Roger's 2 years as a Jay (1997, 1998)..both Cy years. He lived in the Hotel while not with the team on the road as did 'Mac", Brian Macnamee. Mac and Roger didn't often socialize after the game, but did work out together. I went out for beers with Mac a few times after work..and I do mean beers...he would typically order 4 or 6 Coors light at a time, because "he doesn't like to wait for servers to come by again". He was always charismatic and "on", full of energy. One night, we met Mike Myers of Austin Powers fame and Brian had Mike, Mike's brother-in-law and me back on the SkyDome field shagging balls at 2 am. Granted, steriods were not a hot topic in those days, but there was zero "scuttlebutt" around the hotel, including from the housekeeping staff, about syringes etc. lying around the rooms etc.