Clemens takes steroids to prepare for angrier denials

Apparently, Clemens started injecting steroids again – for the first time since former trainer Brian McNamee last injected him, in 2001 – in the week before the early-January taping of his 60 Minutes interview, wherein he told Mike Wallace that he had never used any performance-enhancing drugs. In that interview, Clemens also said that if the allegations McNamee made were true, he would “have a third ear coming out of my forehead,” and “be pulling tractors with my teeth.”

“I don’t think he comes up with that tractor-pull line without the ‘roids, to be honest with you,” the source said. “Bottom line – that’s the sort of thing someone only says when their normal thinking process is blinded by rage. I can only imagine the fireworks when he sits in front of the full committee after over a month of increasingly powerful injections. By then, he may actually have a tractor growing out of his forehead.”

According to the source, with McNamee clearly out of play, Clemens was forced to find a different helpful hand to inject him. It seems the solution was close at hand, in attorney Rusty Hardin.

“Clearly Rusty’s moral standing was not a concern. I mean, did you catch the circles he talked at that press conference? I saw Roger get HGH injections, but by the end of Hardin’s spin-speak I didn’t even remember what the accusations were. It wasn’t much of a leap from there to holding the syringe.”

Contacted by SSNN, Hardin – who has been described as “slicker ‘n deer guts on a doorknob,” – seemed unwilling to confirm or deny allegations of injecting Clemens with performance-enhancers.

“Roger continues to maintain his innocence from these horrible allegations, will continue to display anger in his denials, and in fact is likely to become increasingly angry as time goes on and his detractors persist in dragging his name through the mud. I support his righteous anger in every way that I can, be that verbally or physically; and I refuse to allow some anonymous source to be the authority on how, exactly, that physical support is expressed,” Hardin said. “All we ask is that nobody assume anything based on evidence, accusations or assertions that we have not yet directly contradicted.”

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Labels: Brian McNamee, HGH, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Mike Wallace, Mitchell Report, MLB, Roger Clemens, Rusty Hardin, steroids

Posted on January 22nd, 2008

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