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NEW YORK (Ticker) – Roger Clemens appeared angry and defiant as he defended himself against allegations of steroid use in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview broadcast Sunday night.
Clemens, speaking in a one-on-one interview with veteran anchor Mike Wallace, denied ever using performance-enhancing substances during a Hall of Fame-caliber career.
“Never,” Clemens said when asked if he’d used steroids. “I’ve trained hard my entire career. It didn’t happen.”
Wallace challenged Clemens to explain how he’d been able to remain among the most dominant pitchers in the history of the game into his mid-40s, suggesting it was “impossible” to do without artificial help.
“It’s not impossible,” Clemens said. “You do it with hard work. Ask any of my teammates. Ask anyone who has come here and done the work with me.”
Clemens name appeared multiple times in former Senator George Mitchell’s report on performance-enhancing substance in baseball. In that report, his former trainer Brian McNamee – a key witness in Mitchell’s investigation – claimed to have injected Clemens with steroids multiple times between 1998 and 2001.
Wallace read excerpts of the Mitchell report relating to Clemens, beginning with the section where McNamee claims Clemens first approached him with an interest in steroids. McNamee claimed that Clemens provided the needles and steroids, but wanted McNamee’s help to inject them.
“It never happened,” Clemens said. “If I have these needles and steroids and drugs, where did I get them? Where’s the person that I got them from? Please come forward.”
Since the claimed period of time was between 1998 and 2001, the effects of any type of anabolic steroids will have clearly left the body. The only remains of a potential user would be the physique of the human body altered by more testosterone and muscle.
Which due to science and the claim period was 7-10 years ago, Roger Clemens can profess to genetics. All Roger Clemens has to do now, is just keep denying the rumors and a lie-detector test to keep his name eligible for the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
I’m a huge fan of Roger Clemens, but it is time to call a spade a spade!
Here is the video of Roger Clemens denying the fact he ever took steroids, human growth hormone, or any other type of juice. You can be the judge.
