Roger Clemens and Perjury: Bully, Braggart, Victim

Folks, I love Roger and got to know him quite well back in the 90's when he played with the Red Sox (funny thing I had NO CLUE who Roger Clemems was when I first met him)....the team Spring trained in Ft Myers and I worked as a massage therapist at the resort hotel in which the team stayed, this was the year he had injured his throwing arm and stayed back 4 weeks for more rehab while the rest of the team started the season....anyway he came in and scheduled a massage one afternoon and I was open....that was the beginning of a several year relationship each Spring when the team came to town.....during those Springs I got to know Roger fairly well, met his wife and sons and had many discussions with him about his growing up and starting out playing ball as a young man....how much he really enjoyed "the Kids" at the games and how some of the adults and media really didn't understand or get it.....we talked about the professional sports and doping etc....and I will tell you he is a down to earth really nice person....I cannot believe that the man "took drugs"..... HGH is a hormone produced naturally by our pituitary gland and I know that it has been synthsized in a test tube to do what the natural does.....it has been used to hopefully prolong life by old folks and to enhance growth in young people not growing.....I don't see it as an "anabolic steroid" and if Rog took it I don't believe he believed it either....Leave this Man ALONE....we have bigger fish and more important issues to deal with than persecuting a baseball player albeit A GREAT MAN who pitched one heck of a ball......What is the DOJ and Congress doing wasting my $$$ over this....clean your own house, better do it soon too, because the American people are getting tired of your SHENANIGANS and the ballot box is just a few steps away

I agree its a terrible waste of taxpayers money to go after someone that has done so much for charity and the less fortunate people even helped some disabled veterans I had heard. Its just a shame what the government chooses to be its priorities, on how it wants to justify thier inept indespesible existence of thier jobs. I say its just a waste of taxpayers money and time and that thier are way more important things that the government should be going after you Know hardened criminals, illegal armed and dangerous trespassers, perverted stalkers, viscious destructive vandals, And I don't even know the guy but what is wrong with the priortites of government public servants????????? The USA is financially in meltdown condition. Borderline bankrupt. The creation of manufacturing jobs and saveing the remaining few property owners and working taxpayers is the #1 priority of the US government, the protection of our borders from illegal takeover from other nations people that we have to support once the break into our country should be priority # 2, Save the TAXPAYERS toss everybody that is not an American taxpayer out........Toss anybody in the government that missuses, and wastes taxpayers dollars out at the ballots this year and save A struggling American taxpayers home

WOW HE HAS DONE NOTHING MORE THAN ANY POLITICIAN HAS DONE THEY LIE ALL THE TIME WHAT DO YOU EXPECT LOOK WHO WE LEARN THINGS FROM WAY TO GO CONGRESS

I submitted a comment that was critical of the author Andrew Cohen. My comment was not published. Neither did the comment use any foul language, nor did it go off subject. The essence of the comment was very simple. When Andrew Cohen points out that he thinks that the legal infractions of Roger Clements, for example alleged purgery, are far less important than failed plays on the baseball field, he steps into the shoes of the fan, who is a big part of the problem by still supporting players that lied and cheated to win. If the fan would not condone it for the sake of winning, cheating would not be as rampant. I see the When Andrew Cohen essentially writes that pursuing an indictment for purgery is a waste of taxpayer's money, he tries to portray the government case like an unneccessary prosecution. Therefore I wrote that Andrew Cohen is part of the problem to clean baseball from the players who use illegal drugs, like Roger Clemens (allegedly) did. This was not a personal attack, but attack on the position that Andrew Cohen represents. As my first comment was not published, I hope this one will be published. I believe there is a fine line between editing and censorship, especially when the editing protects the author who wrote a piece from criticism regarding the piece.

Steroids and other banned performance enhancers are a blight on sport and athletes at all levels of competition. Athletes who use banned substances risk physical harm themselves and cause themselves irreparable psychological damage by betraying their own core beliefs. The consequences range from death and health problems to depression and suicide. Profession athletes who use banned substances set the stage for drug use in young athletes at all levels of competition from club sport to college and high school. The black market sale of these illegal substances quickly finds distribution outside the professional sport community. Use of steroids and other banned substances for performance enhancement is cheating. It is illegal. It goes against the very idea of sport and should be punished with expulsion from sport and legal action.

CLEMENS IS A VICITM CONGRESS GOT BETTER WORK TO DO THAN GO AFTER CLEMENS KEEP OUT OF SPORTS CLEAN UP YOUR HOUSE IN WASHINGTON

theirs no reason for congress haveing their nose stuck in sports. they can't keep their own house in order so stop telling others how it should be done. these problems needs to be handled my the sport not the government.

We live in an increasingly competive society. Students of all ages are seeking ways to gain the edge over their peers athletically (as well as academically). People like Barry Bonds and Roger Clements who have elevated themselves in their accomplishments and contributions to the point of being nationally recognized also set themselves up to be emulated by many of these competing students. And lets face it...Sports is far more captivating than government officials(like Alberto Gonzales) for the general masses...or at least that is my belief anyway. Consequently we pay attention to the athletes who command our attention. The overwhelming evidence of these athletes lying under oath and in some cases furthering that lie in a published book, suggest a narcisistic means to their end----Lie if you want to be the best---Lie louder, make noise, be the best at it---Lie to make money---the list goes on. Although Alberto Gonzales is a national figure head, I am of the opinion that his actions make less of an impressionable affect on the up and coming students and athletes of today. Justice is a lesson taught over and over and it seems the world needs to be retaught...REIMINDED of our responsibility to make the world less complicated with the simple truth. Sports appeals to the masses...Perhaps that is what drives the Attorney General? Athletes, like all of us, are held to a definite sense of ethical standard that should be acted on. In such standards, each individual hopefully fosters a habit directed toward CONSCIOUS reflection on TRUTH and recognizes the consequences make life easier.

A trial is a big waste of taxpayer time and money. Some idiot in DC has to set some priorities for this country. Two wars, economic crisis, terrorist, Post office is bankrupt, Social Security issues, debt, out of control spending.....and the Justice Department is worrying about a few warts on a frog!! Is there common sense anymore?

Well written article. Maybe somebody in the DOJ will read it.