It sounded as if Wallace believes Rocket did juice.

Roger could do himself a favor if he provided the receipts for what he claimed he purchased along with the prescription needed for injectable lidocaine.

Why doesn't Roger just go along with the lie the others are all using..."I was just doing them to recover from an injury."
Actually, they could be telling the truth if the following are considered injuries:

1. Getting Old.
2. Having Little Talent.

I don't doubt that he's also a "player of his era," but I did enjoy his counterpoints to the regular "steroids" as magic pills talk...although I suspect that most of the readers here are already convinced that he's baseball's new anti-Christ. Interesting how there wasn't much indignation about Roger Clemens ("suspicions" sure) until just a few weeks ago. Now? Well now damnit, he ruined my childish view of these ballplayers as super-human...err...super-human in a "clean" sense.

Congressional hearings, eh? Great, just what the USA needs right now...more grandstanding against those evil, "cheating," baseball players.

I don't know what Roger Clemens did or didn't do, but it doesn't shock me for a second that he took drug (illegal and not) cocktails regularly to stay in the game and to remain healthy. Do the readers here really doubt that ballplayers (and football and basketball and soccer and rugby and cycling and hockey and tennis and...) do such things? And, in a way...is that really so bad? Really, I'm serious.

I suspect that Roger Clemens will be labeled with steroids from this point forward in an open manner, irrespective of what he did or didn't do...or even what the effects (i.e. "cheating") may or may not have been.

And...the "lie" that "the others" were recovering from injury? What does that even mean?

I'd just add that most people are beyond this issue. Sadly, lay-fans that I come across have made up their minds that "everyone" was "cheating." No definitions, no arguments, just paint 'em all with the brush of the public's ire....and these same people are angry that their convinced that ballplayers were "cheating."

On a positive note, it, in a counter-intuitive way, suggests to me that baseball is more popular than ever and holds a place in this country's heart that's visceral and ever-lasting. What is he talking about? Really, I'm serious. Look at how we argue about this subject and how pissed off we get at one another. Do any other sports provoke such reactions? No way...no way. People get angry because they care deeply and respect baseball's history. That's okay. 'Cause, even if most posters here don't agree with me (or others), I'd rather have us debating, arguing, etc. than sitting back and not caring (like with some sports).

Safe and happy 2008 to everyone.

"Wallace did a good job."? You're kidding, right?? Where were the follow up questions after Clemens claimed Pettitte's case was totally separate? Why were they separate? Where were the legitimate questions that could have been found with a cursory internet search by an assistant producer for 60 minutes if they could not think of anything beyond what's your reaction to this and that in the Mitchell Report? Many writers, baseball and otherwise, posed intriguing questions they thought Wallace should ask and not a hint of one came out except for the lie detector question, which method no one believes in anyways. Mike Wallace was a good reporter. Was.

Bill, you took the words right out of my mouth. How anyone can say that Clemens' buddy, Mikey Wallace, did a good job is beyond me.

No follow-up concerning Petitte.
The question, "Swear?" C'mon. Why didn't he ask him to pinky swear?

Ridiculous.