Roger Clemency: Pitcher could be remembered for leaning on a presidential pardon to avoid jail.

[marmar]

Roger Clemency
By Steve Henson, Yahoo! Sports
Feb 28, 3:27 am EST



Roger Clemency. That’s the end game here. That’s how the greatest pitcher of a generation will be remembered. As leaning on a presidential pardon to avoid jail time.

He already has been stamped a shameless liar. And a habitual drug cheat. And a pig-headed egomaniac who would bring humiliation on his wife, blame everyone around him and expect the public to swallow his ludicrous denials.

Too harsh? John McCain doubts Clemens. So do Yahoo! Sports readers, 81 percent of whom indicated in an online poll the day after the Congressional hearings two weeks ago that he took performance-enhancing drugs.

It is obvious Clemens believes himself untouchable. It’s the bedrock of his legal strategy. It’s why he willingly stepped into a perjury trap thinly disguised as a Congressional truth-seeking exercise two weeks ago.

And it’s why he unblinkingly anticipated the development that the FBI has launched an investigation, one day after the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked the U.S. Attorney General to look into the matter. Charges were laid out in an 18-page document that lists “seven sets of assertions made by Mr. Clemens in his testimony that appear to be contradicted by other evidence before the Committee or implausible.”

Clemens, remember, didn’t just dodge questions and deflect evidence that contradicted his claims. Early in the hearings he made a point of saying, unsolicited, that he “never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone.” .....(more)

THe complete piece is at: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AlowKW8VSgMpZkv287z.EWMRvLYF?slug=sh-clemensperjury022808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[Upton]

1. If Bonds goes to jail, Clemens must go to jail

we will see how it all plays out, but both of them are pretty stupid for lying. I don't understand why Clemens didn't do what Andy Pettitte did, admit it upfront.

[El Supremo]

2. Clemency denied it...

because he was not a "casual" user like Pettitte. Or at least it seems that way.

[appletasty]

3. We are not talking about a high crime

i say pardon him.

[trumad]

4. Perjury in front of congress isn't a high crime?

whatever....

In edit... oh bever mind tombstoner...

[Iggo]

5. Bonds isn't friends with the prez-dit, though.