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Clemens - You Need to Show McNamee’s Motive

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The Mitchell Report was issued on December 14th. It took three weeks for Roger Clemens and his attorneys to finally figure out how to combat the allegations against him. Clemens must have been grilled for hours by his counsel about his relationship with his once personal trainer Brian McNamee. The inquiries all stem around his purchases of “vitamin B-12” and the painkiller “lidocaine.”

These are the questions Clemens had to wrangle with before making any type of statement.

• Is Clemens name in any way associated with the purchase of the “vitamin B-12” or “lidocaine”?
• Did he use any checks or credit cards to purchase these items?
• Did anyone see McNamee inject Clemens with the materials?
• Did anyone see Clemens with the materials at any time?
• Did Clemens need to contact any associates to feel assured they would never come out against him?

It took three weeks for Clemens and his counsel to feel comfortable with the answers to those questions. After covering all their bases, they feel assured it will be McNamee’s word against Clemens’s word. McNamee has no proof to link Clemens to any of the illegal drugs. Clemens can now plead his innocence until he finally gets inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The problem for Roger Clemens is the evidence is too bizarre not to believe McNamee.

• Why would McNamee tell the truth about Andy Pettitte but then lie about Roger Clemens?
• How would it benefit McNamee to lie about Clemens’s use?
• Why would McNamee make up so many specifics about the times he injected Clemens with the drugs?

The simple answer is either McNamee has a crazy vendetta against Clemens or he is telling the truth.

Clemens obviously feels confident it’s his word against McNamee’s and can fight it until the end because there isn’t any proof. We wouldn’t be surprised if Clemens goes to Congress to testify he did nothing wrong. The one place you won’t see Roger Clemens is taking a lie detector test. You can bank on that.

The reality is Clemens’s only shot to prove his innocence to the majority is to show McNamee has a motive to destroy his baseball legacy. This motive would need to be stronger than McNamee facing jail time for lying about Clemens’s drug use. It’s a road Clemens obviously can’t prove and therefore is being ignored.

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