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I could really care less about Roger Clemens and his post-baseball life. However, the plethora of interesting tidbits that have emerged following his congressional hearing are beyond amusing. Its as though Clemens cares little about turning his life into a giant joke. With all of the dirty laundry aired about Clemens, jail time would just pile on to the public embarrassment he’s put him and his family through. At least this may result in Clemens, the cheater, being branded as an incomparable loser.

Today, Congress announced that in light of Clemens’ hearing, which Clemens himself asked for, a perjury investigation will be conducted concerning Clemens’ testimony. Let’s think about this. During a time of economic strife and military conflict, Clemens demanded that Congress hear his testimony so that he may clear his name. While Congress has a responsibility to watchdog sports (the same as they are responsible to watchdog any industry), it’s likely that most Congressmen would have no problem letting Clemens’ individual case pass on by.

So Clemens and his counsel decide to be cowboys and rattle everyone’s cages including Congress’ in order to clear the Rocket’s name with conviction. And all this did was open him up to perjury. Anything Clemens said that day in Congress is now subject to review and if he is proven to have lied about anything, he’s going to jail. These lies could be about steroid use, who he’s associated with or even which parties he’s been to. Which leads to…

How on EARTH can you lie under oath about attending a party that was so publicized that it was attended by MEDIA and by a few FANS with CAMERAS. During my college days, I wouldn’t dare lie about attending a frat party, not with facebook.com serving as a campus tabloid. Yet Clemens thought it smart to lie about attending a party where he was photographed by an 11-YEAR-OLD FAN.His lawyer, Rusty Hardin has not seen the photos, but Brian McNamee’s counsel believes the photo to show good proof of Clemens’ attendance at the infamous Canseco Pool Party.

Now that we mention Hardin, an issue has been raised by McNamee to remove Rusty from the Clemens case. This seems like a petty move, but the rationale behind it is amazing. Apparently, McNamee’s lawyers find it odd that Hardin represents Clemens and Andy Pettitte, even though each has conflicting versions of the truth. One can thus conclude that Hardin is either complicitly defending a client who is lying or to stupid to realize that he is playing for both teams in the same game. Either way, Hardin is discrediting one of his clients and is breaking his code of ethics as a lawyer. He is legally not permitted to do this and is required to represent either Pettitte or Clemens as defending one would compromise the other.

I loved this line of thought and love that Hardin should be forced to leave this matter and force Clemens to go through the ordeal and expense of getting new representation.

Besides Clemens’ himself being made a fool of publicly, his wife as also been dragged into this ordeal. Debbie Clemens first became part of the story when her use of HGH to “look right” for a SI Swimsuit Issue Shoot was made public. Now, an anonymous source, in attempting to link Clemens to Canseco and the infamous pool party, has mentioned how often, the two ex-teammates would joke about the similarity of their spouses breasts after surgical enlargement. None this pertains to steroids in the least, but now is common knowledge.

Again, no thanks to MLB, this has remained a baseball story instead of a Roger Clemens story, as Clemens as been making appearances at Astros Spring Training. Good job Bud Selig. Assuredly, Clemens would have definitely been banned from NFL Training Camp or NBA Preseason Camp, as both Roger Goddell and David Stern know the unnecessary negative attention this draws to the sport. Unfortunately, Bud Selig is a spineless imp on most things, A number 1, being steroids.

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