Easy to find...but hard to read....

Roger Clemens testified today in front of the congressional committee holding hearings on PED use in MLB, as a result of the Mitchell report.

Having listened to his testimony, I want to believe him. But the problem I have is that Clemens seems more angry and defensive, than someone innocent and pleading his case. Several times during testimony, even when asked questions which seemingly would have helped his case, (such as the question asked by one congresswoman about his workout regime after showing a 4-panel display of Clemens taken at various stages of his career), Clemens had to be coaxed by chairman Waxman to answer the question directly, and even then barely satisfactorily.

Clemens just seems bent on stating that he has been wronged, and that others have and are lying about him, but at no time during the questioning has he offered any real proof of his innocence or evidence that shows that his accusers HAVE falsely accused him.

And even those people who Clemens considers good friends, like Andy Pettite who yesterday during his questioning said that he overheard Clemens in a discussion about taking human growth hormone, Clemens stated today that Pettite just misunderstood. He did not deny that there had been a discussion that had taken place, nor did Clemens provide to us the details of how that conversation could have been misunderstood. All Clemens did was offer us an excuse that Pettite was wrong, not that Clemens was right.

And that is the knife that keeps twisting in my brain about this situation.

If Clemens is not guilty, then why is not offering substantiative proof of his innocence, instead of trying to state to us that he thinks all of his accusers are lying or mistaken???

Very few of the questions were directly answered. At least not to my satisfaction.

Even that very simple question which part of his answer is in the title of this blog entry, he stumbled answering. The question was simple and straight forward. When asked if he had denied any request to appear before former Senator Mitchell to answer any allegations that were being made against him, Clemens offered us only that he was "easy to find". And that had he know what "lies" were being told he would have been there. But that did not answer the question. So while Clemens may be "easy to find", he sure is extremely hard to read, when it comes to answers he has given.