Now, he also recalled having some pretty strong anti-steroids conversations with Clemens. However, he talked in depth about Clemens using B-12. I’m thinking he just graduated, and that he knows he can count on ex-teammates misremembering his fondness for B-12, so he’s using that as a crutch.

Also, I was the Music Man in 6th grade. I knew the territory.

You forgot to mention that our buddy Rep. Kucinich is part of that committee. Unfortunately he was not in attendance for the Clemens hearing. This is likely because he’s back in Cleveland fighting for his political life in the March 4th primary. His two goofy presidential campaigns have upset folks in his district and now a Cleveland city councilman is coming after him. Anyhow, Rep. Braley (D-IA) at one point asked Clemesn if he was a vegan and Clemens said he didn’t know what that was. Rep. Kucinich if he had been there could have then used all of his questioning time to give a speech on veganism. That would have been a great moment in American history. I’m sorry we missed it.

(1) Clemens is asked if he is a vegan, and is completely flummoxed. “I don’t know what that is.”

(2) Clemens two lawyers bouncing around behind Clemens trying to get him to say what they agreed on.

But maybe I misheard, or am misremembering.

Anyway. I had the exact same experience. I’m just sad. McNamee and Clemens were embarrassed, horribly. Clemens probably moreso. His story continues to make less sense. You’ve covered the basics (wait, so Debbie does HGH?). But for the life of me, I can’t begin to understand what Clemens was attempting to accomplish with this – clearing his name, I guess. That plenty of Congressman were willing to play along is plenty terrible. But above else, Clemens, and his highly compensated legal team, has shown inconceivably bad judgment in the post-Mitchell era. It’s equally amazing to me that Clemens’s bizarre press conference was covered as “news” rather than absurdity. That he thought that would help. But then, watching him in Washington, it sort of starts to make sense. Nobody has the guts to tell him when to give up. He probably thinks he killed up there.

He may have perjury charges yet to come. The next referendum will be the HOF vote. And I think support for Clemens’ candidacy is going to continue to suffer. I doubt he’ll get the point then, either.

While I think it is funny to pick on the Congressmen in the hearing, I also think it is sad. Really, really, depressing. These are the idiots we elect to run our country. That isn’t a partisian statement. Both parties fill their ballots with idiots who go to Congress and do the work of their party rather than of the American people.

Dan Burton, seriosly? Is there any doubt that this guy had no idea what was going on? He had to be corrected at least twice in five minutes by his staff on simple matters, and then blurted out his line about not believing McNamee just in time to make it to his tee-time. What a joke.

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