February 11, 2008
What Did Pettitte Say?
This doesn't sound good for Roger Clemens:
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is supporting Andy Pettitte's request not to have to testify publicly against his former teammate Roger Clemens at a public hearing on Wednesday, a congressional staff person said Monday.
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Pettitte asked out of public testimony because he did not want to say something to hurt his friend and former teammate while in the glare of national television coverage, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
It appears there is something in Andy's deposition that casts a shadow on Clemens.
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Wow. You can ask not to testify before Congress because you might hurt your buddies feelings?
If he drops the bomb Roger does 24 months. When the report broke he had a choice, he did not choose wisely. Matter of fact, short of his recent courtship of congressmen has he done a thing right? Could have been a Giambi blowover, now we are headed to Bondsville.
So from pinstripes to prison stripes for Roger, huh?
Drawing obvious inferences from news reports, if Clemens ends up facing a perjury indictment that means he missed the stop at accomodating little Bondsville and road that train to Roseville.
Right in the center of Bondsville there's a monument to the word "knowingly," erected by the lone shaven-headed resident to commemorate his declaration of independence from the question "Did you use steroids?"
Bondsville gets by on stone silence from its only other resident, Greg Anderson, and high-priced, deft, fine-slice comparison of time-and-place questions against what can be rigorously proven.
Roseville, by contrast, is entirely defined by a simple question and a simple answer, with the answer being provably false.
Clemens is headed there. He should have pulled the cord and disembarked in the dense fog of legal ambiguity far back up the track. The sun shines bright in Roseville, so it is much easier to spot and trap a lie.
do you think andy will have a fun time with other MLB players this year? they may avoid him like the plague, or make fun of him because he didn't have the guts to testify in front of clemens
I agree with you about refusing to face Roger while testifying. Why would anyone in baseball have an issue with Andy telling the truth under oath? Seriously, why?
abe - perhaps like Dan Naulty, Andy went to church quickly and apologized/admitted. He somwhow gets a pass for looking contritie, even though if he truly lived his moral life he would not have used hgh at all.
from espn article...at the end after the histrionic headline "Report: Pettitte's affidavit supports McNamee's version of events"
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3242017
"Sources told Quinn that Pettitte was not a good witness when he appeared before congressional lawyers during a sworn deposition on Monday. Pettitte often contradicted himself, the sources said, so the committee agreed to his request not to appear before the committee.
Lawyers familiar with the hearings would not say if Pettitte implicated Clemens as a steroids user in his testimony. However, they said that Pettitte's testimony didn't fully jibe with Clemens' versions of events."
So he is not appearing because he gave contradictory testimony....and is a bad prosecution witness. His words don't match either McNamee's or Clemens version of the event. He would have turned into Frank Five Angels from Godfather II whle at the hearing.
from espn article...at the end after the histrionic headline "Report: Pettitte's affidavit supports McNamee's version of events"
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3242017">http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3242017">http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3242017
"Sources told Quinn that Pettitte was not a good witness when he appeared before congressional lawyers during a sworn deposition on Monday. Pettitte often contradicted himself, the sources said, so the committee agreed to his request not to appear before the committee.
Lawyers familiar with the hearings would not say if Pettitte implicated Clemens as a steroids user in his testimony. However, they said that Pettitte's testimony didn't fully jibe with Clemens' versions of events."
So he is not appearing because he gave contradictory testimony....and is a bad prosecution witness. His words don't match either McNamee's or Clemens version of the event. He would have turned into Frank Five Angels from Godfather II whle at the hearing.