Rocket’s Last Stand: Take the Poor Trainer to Court
Baseball, Courts, Legal, Drugs January 7th. 2008, 1:04pm
Refused to watch the Clemens Interview on 60 Minutes because we already have our opinion about the man who allegedly cheated by getting steroids shot into his ass. Apparently, many people feel the same way. Once news of the interview was handed to media outlets this week, and public sentiment didn’t change, the Rocket was left with one last option – sue. Sunday night, the bully pitcher filed a defamation of character lawsuit against his former trainer, Brian McNamee. Our first thought: since the scare tactics haven’t worked over the last three weeks, Roger’s going to try to muscle the guy by taking him to court which, as you can imagine, will be expensive. Rocket’s probably hoping McNamee can’t afford this, and is forced to backpeddle. We hope the trainer has deep-pocketed friends, because this will probably set him back a couple hundred grand.
So Rocket will go to court. But will he testify in front of Congress next week?
Clemens files defamation suit against his ex-trainer (Houston Chronicle)
Photo: Delcia Lopez/San Antonio Express-News/ZUMA Press
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January 7th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
now he is saying he is going to retire, adds more guilt
when he goes to court, he will plead the 5th and go down in shame
Nolan Ryan, greatest power pitcher ever
January 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
can we just give roger the pete rose treatment and please be done with this ass?
January 7th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Some sentiment on this whole thing: The only reason he has filed this suit is so he wont have to “comment on on-going litigation” in front of Congress, kinda like a McGwire-manuever. He can show up and answer no questions? Kinda good timing, hey? Secondly, what can he get from the trainer? I doubt the guy has, lets say, Tabloid Sun-Times money, so the only plausible reason is that he wants to avoid testifying. And Irish, didnt YOU say that Barry Bonds “single handedly destroyed baseball.”
January 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I did watch part of the interview and the way he was fidgeting during the whole thing made him look even more guilty.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
TBL, as an Astros fan could you please stop posting steriod-related stories of him with pictures of him in Astros gear? Show him as a Blue Jay or a Yankee since those are the unis he wore when he juiced…er, allegedly juiced.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
He apparently had a hour long phone conversation with McNamee. It went like this.
Roger: How much do you want?
McNamee: What do you mean?
Roger: To say that you didn’t inject me.
McNamee: But I did.
Roger: I know, but how much. Just say you thought there were steroids but got it wrong.
McNamee: And say I lied?
Roger: Yes. How much, 50K?
McNamee: No
Roger: 100K and an autographed baseball
McNamee: No
Roger: You **#!)#*$. Do you know what this will do to me?
McNamee: Yeah, it’ll screw you. Kind of like what you did to the Yankees this year.
Roger: I’m suing you.
Basically, he offered McNamee a bunch of cash, McNamee said no and now he thinks he’s going to bully him.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
If the 60 Minutes chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan had interviewed him last night, Roger Clemens would have sung like a canary. Man, that chick is unbelievably hot! (Click on her name for a photo). Clemens’ appearance on the show did nothing for me. He did nothing to convince me of his innocence. He said he did not want to speak with Sen. Mitchell upon request. But, he said he would have if he had known his trainer was planning to sell him out. Of course, Clemens would not have known that because he did not have a conversation with Mitchell!!! Stupid, stupid stupid. Just one of several examples of his moronic appearance!
January 7th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
sure did cool rick
the home run record was a historic record that is now tainted
that is why i said barry bonds ruined baseball
January 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I think cool_rick wins. This is a calculated ploy by Clemens. Lawsuits can be twisted and contorted and last for years. He’s just buying time. There will be a reckoning day, he’s just hoping no one cares that he used steroids 2 or 3 years down the road. One caveat is that he will have to vanish like McGwire did. I don’t think Clemens is the disappearing type. His ego will screw this up, but it’s a solid gameplan for now.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Before I watched the interview last night, I was a little bit on the fence. I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Today I am almost certain that he is guilty. He just wasn’t too believable. He kept making these rhetorical questions that just made him look even worse. He started off with an arrogance about how much he has contributed to baseball. Like he has done so much for the game and it is beneath him to have to explain why he did what he did.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
@ Cool Rick—You nailed it dude. That is why Barry was not called before Congress….because he had an ongoing court case at the time. My guess is that Roger will not even show up (he doesn’t have to….his presence was just requested)
By filing his own law suit, he has just bought a free pass from congress. They could have gone after him for any of the public comments he has made so far…..one that I thought was pretty interesting was whether or not he know of Andy Petite’s using of HGH. Roger said he had no idea. If those two were as close as they say they are and using the same trainer and working out together, chances are that he knew. Petite has also been invited to Congress and would have no reason to lie for Roger at this stage since he has already come clean.
Congress would ask Roger once again if he knew about Andy using and vice versa……If they can snag him on something like this, the doors would be blown wide open and Roger would be forced to come clean or start piling up perjury charges……I hope we get to hear it.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
KC- it is brilliant(?) plan. When a person wants to some on something like this it takes a while to draft the complaint. When are the Congressional Hearings? Soon. He and his attorneys want to file this, shed any sort of liability, let this pass, and then he will have his 5 years. There will never be any sort of trial. The only one making out is Rusty, his lawyer, two words: BILLABLE HOURS. As for the trainer, dont worry, his lawyer will take the case, simply for name respect/case prowess. Do you think Scott Peterson had the loot to pay Mark Geragos for a 2 month trial?
January 7th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
cool rick, since you write down everything i say
write this down
fuck off you drunk and go get another dui
you talk as if you are a jail house lawyer
isnt your time up at the library by now
January 7th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
@ms621 – The only reason there are no stories of him using in Houston is that Mitchell wasn’t able to take to their trainers…he only got stronger as he got older
January 7th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
If I were McNamee, I wouldnt sweat the lawsuit. Clemens’s lawyers had weeks to prepare him for Mike Wallace, and the best they could come up with was the “third ear” defense. I mean, that’s some stupid shit.
Roger could have done down as just another disgraced superstar. Instead, he seems hell bent on ending up in prison. Deny steroids all you want, but don’t do it under oath. If he follows through on all the stupid stuff he says he’s going to do, prosecutors will have a stronger case against him than they do against Bonds.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
The 60 minutes interview with the former Boston executioner was more interesing last night. Maybe he can take Roger to visit the place with the trap door and see if he can get him to tell us the real deal.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
And Congress left Bonds alone because there was a pending federal criminal investigation. They couldnt give a shit about some little defamation case in Texas. This will have no effect on his “invitation.”
January 7th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
So now if he defends himself he’s a bully? How silly is that, to call Roger Clemens a bully. Clemens is becoming a national pariah and the legitamacy of his career is being challenged. Do you really think he’s worried about looking like a bully for defending himself. This isn’t grade school. McNamee hired the famous nyc slander lawyer; he threated to sue clemens first.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Butters, I’m not saying he didn’t use while he was with the Astros, although I’m hoping he didn’t because it was rough enough knowing Ken Caminiti did. But the Mitchell Report says he only used in Toronto and New York, so let’s use those pictures instead. It’s not like they’re hard to find: http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/98/dylan/pics/clemens.fenway.jpg
January 7th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Irish- write this down: you are a loser, patrolling blog comment sections looking for a fight. you never contribute anything to any discussion. “jail-house lawyer”, good one, I have more degrees than your whole ancestry, faggot limey, eat some potatoes and join the IRA.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Judges in Houston were fighting over the right to get the Clemens case… too funny. Problem is, it’s just a place-holder lawsuit. He filed to make sure McNamee didn’t file his own suit in NY first. Plus, Clemens has no incentive to actually litigate – it is just a PR move to make it look like he’s fighting back.
To win a defamation case, Clemens has to prove that McNamee made knowingly false statements and that they were malicious. Which would require Clemens to prove a supposed negative (that he did NOT use ‘roids or HGH). Good luck proving that.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
hey you are always the one bringing me up and saying what i said
just leave me out of it rick
you can be tough over the internet, nothing new
now have a great afternoon
January 7th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Frosted tips? The juice is seeping out of his hair plugs.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Jail-house lawyer? Limey?
Looks like we’re about to have a ‘Gangs of New York’ rumble up in here!
January 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Clemens said McNamee emailed him just before the Mitchell report came out asking to borrow his boat and fishing equipment for a trip. That was pretty funny.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I had two favorite parts of the Clemens interview. The first was how he totally botched what should have been a sympathetic story for him in the Torre telling him to give it to him straight and good old Roger saying I would never let the team down and taking a a pain killer shot before a World Series game in 2001. He said If he could hide that injury the other team won’t know he could give the team 6 innings..what is this football? Second was him blaming the FDA for lying to him and the American public and saying he popped Vioxx like candy (umm Roger it was prescription drug? Maybe you should have gone easier on those) and saying he doesn’t know what will happen to his heart. My wife, who usually feels bad for serial killers if they shed a tear, called him a liar right there. He was horrendous last night.
January 7th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I was just shocked at how stupid the man sounded last night. Granted he plays baseball and is not a professor but he sounded like one of my football coaches in high school. Had he sounded eloquent I might have believed him. However I would like to take this moment to say that he graduated from my high school and was nice enough to donate a new scoreboard for the baseball field. Thanks Rog
January 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Clemens unwittingly gave away how we can find the proof he took he steriods and HGH.
Can someone please track down a picture of him puttling a tractor with his teeth?
Does anyone have the picture of him with an ear growing out of his forehead?
Wait on second thought, Barry Bonds never had an ear grow out of his forehead, he was innocent all along!!!!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Celebrity boxing match between cool_rick and irishmafia?
I think they should send TBL full body photos and key stats (height, weight, age, reach, number of times they have cried like a b*itch). Then, they should go a few rounds, and it could be webcast live!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
cry like a bitch huh
nice
i see where this is going
January 7th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
anybody gonna post odds?
January 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
whats the beef little nuts
January 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I am simply adding a few matches to the existing brouhaha. I would do it for any two of our TBL brothers lookin to go at it! And, yes sadly, I do have little nuts.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I think he’s guilty as hell, but he’s going to make McNamee try to prove that he gave him shots. Don’t know how he can do that, unless he had video or witnesses.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I found the proof McNamee needs
http://blog.masslive.com/redsoxmonster/2008/01/clemens_thirdear_defense_a_bit.html
January 7th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Early line: Irish +3.5
Anyone who talks about their degrees can’t take a punch.
January 7th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Now it sounds like McNamee is kissing Rocket’s ass. Better than injecting it, I guess….