Darth Clemens (plus some showing off)

When you think of the all-time villains there are some obvious ones. Vader and the Emperor can never be forgotten, Anton Chigurh from "No Country" is up there as well (the silenced shotgun is incredible!) but you wouldn't necessarily put Roger Clemens in this category.

Before I go any further, I believe that Clemens is guilty as sin. If he's not I'm sorry for this blog that further implicated him, but some of this stuff will be true regardless of his guilt.

His personal trainer, Brian McNamee, has sworn that Clemens used steroids and HGH. Now McNamee had nothing to gain by feeding Clemens to the steroid-induced "dogs" but he did it instead to get to the truth after Clemens was named in the Mitchell Report.

Andy Petitte, Clemens' "former best friend" has testified that Clemens discussed Performance Enhancing Drug use with him and Petitte has already admitted to PED use.

Clearly Clemens "can't handle the truth".

He has done everything he can think of to avoid being implicated, even throwing his poor wife under the bus and having her admit to steroid use. He has used his mother and grandmother as moral compass accessories to prove why he's such a straight arrow. Here is a piece of what he said: "I've always believed that hard work and determination were the only ways to be successful. And to reach goals. Shortcuts were not an option. This was instilled in me since I was a young boy by my mother and my grandmother."
He even tried to awe people with his talent, fame and physicality.

But now he's in over his head. The Congressmen he is testifying in front of don't care that Clemens is already a Cooperstown candidate. They don't care about his mother and grandmother being more moral than Mother Theresa. They only care about the truth which seems strongly against Clemens right now especially since a photograph has surfaced which proves some of his statements about a certain Jose Canseco house party false.

Why he doesn't just admit and apologize like everyone else is beyond me. Who is chastising Petitte about his steroid use?? Is he the new face of evil? No because he simply said "I made a mistake".

Petitte will get his mulligan to prove his value to the baseball world but will Clemens be rewarded with his after all is said and done on Capital Hill?

Clemens is not falling off the Hall of Fame ballot because if schmucks like McGwire and Bonds are going to be on it, then how could Clemens not be? His seven Cy Young Awards aren't going anywhere. The only thing that would be affected would be his reputation.

And for Roger, his reputation is clearly all that he really cares about through all of this nonsense.

Now to show off a little.....

Here is a video of some interviews I did asking why people thought Clemens was guilty




And here is just a little video we made in journalism class. Just a sequence of a good guitar player around campus.