Topic Of Choice: Clemens On ‘Roids
This past Tuesday in congress, there were two completely different testimonies under oath. However, as I sit around and think about the entire saga between Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee and the involvement of Congress, I think that the panel of Senators has no choice but to go after Roger and charge him with perjury. For two reasons, the first is that by charging Roger with perjury they will certainly make their argument that they needed to get involved with this, because public perception is that they are wasting their time if something doesn’t come out of this. The second reason is because of Barry Bonds and how he’s in a battle currently being charged with perjury. The Bonds supporters will scream from the rooftops about how this would be a double standard, and they may have a pretty good case. If you remember the last few years it’s taken Roger Clemens months to decide to return to play. Most believe that’s because Roger was still unsure whether he wanted to play again. But what if he took so long to come back because he was trying to get the performance enhancing drugs out of his system that he took during the off-season before any drug testing? It’s certainly not that far fetched when you think about it. Maybe Congress can make something out of this and keep future players from making the same mistakes by risking their playing status from performance enhancing drugs. Maybe they can have a new post career awards hall called the ‘hall of shame’, it would take fewer skills on the baseball diamond to get in.