How about Roger Clemens going out to play some golf right after pleading not guilty to lying to congress. Does this look like a Cat who’s worried about going to the slam. I half expected him to come off the 18th green O.J style and say, ‘All right, let’s go find the real roiders.” Look, it’s not in his DNA, and he probably thinks he’s too far down the road to change his story now but what’s going to trial really going to get him? Other than because he’s the Rocket…, why does the guy continue to push? Three reasons; One, he didn’t do it. That’s unlikely, his former trainer says he did. His little buddy Andy Petitte says he told him he did.

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And I’m guessing the Feds have other people who will say the same or they wouldn’t be pushing so hard. Two, he’s trying to stay out of jail. Fine. But if he didn’t want to go to jail, he shouldn’t have lied to congress in the first place. Allegedly. Three, he’s trying to clear his name and restore his rep. But that’s not happening. Regardless of what happens from here on out. He may get over and beat this rap on some technicality or loophole. Or his high paid legal team may create some reasonable doubt in a jury, but he’ll never again be the rocket. The liar, maybe or the cheat. Or the myopian, perhaps. . He may only know one way, but the risk-reward factor here is all jacked up. Then again, maybe he really has convinced himself he didn’t do it. Like that time he convinced himself he threw the barrel of that bat at Mike Piazza because he thought it was the ball. If you thought it was the ball, why did you throw it at him what is this, kickball or wiffleball.