18,000 words? EIGHTEEN THOUSAND?!

Ok, in the ever revolving story of the use of PED's in MLB, Clemens and his lawyer yesterday released a 40+ page document with 18,000 words, which was really nothing more than a statistcal biography of Clemens career.

Nearly nothing in this report gives is anything that you can not lookup in the Baseball Almanac, or on MLB.com.

You would think that a guy that is accused of taking PED's, would at least ADDRESS the exact issues that his accusers have stated, instead of trying to use statistics of how his play actually improved around and after the same time frame he has been accused of this action.

But let's put that aside for a minute.

I actually applaud Clemens for vehemently defending his name. Because, let's face it, his career is over, so it is not like he is going to be going back to baseball in hopes of winning another Cy Young award. The only reason he might go back is just to make 'mo money' and because he does not know when to quit.

So the reason he is fighting this is for his baseball legacy. And I understand that. Because if proven that he did take PED's, then his chances for HOF induction are all but zero.

Which makes this document so very confusing. The argument is at best an odd tangent, and at worst completely moot. You would think that instead of trying to make this document about the whole of Clemen's career and saying "See! Look at his stats it shows how good he has been as a pitcher!", they would instead address specific issues and events that McNamee has accused Clemens of. Why talk about Clemens lowest in the majors ERA during that time period, but not address any issues or situations off the field, which is where the allegations are said to have occurred? It does not make much sense.

And why has Clemens legal team not seen fit to address the questions raised by Pettite's admission of guilt directly? For example, why would McNamee lie, what does he stand to gain or lose by falsifying information about Clemens?

While it is an interesting tack, this document does nearly nothing to address the questions or innocence of Clemens being accused of PED use. At least none that I can see.