Roger Clemens apologizes for unspecified mistakes in personal life
Roger Clemens apologizes for unspecified mistakes in personal life
Roger Clemens apologized Monday for unspecified mistakes in his personal life, a statement Brian McNamee’s lawyers intend to use to attack the pitcher’s credibility at trial.
The Daily News reported last week Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was 15 and an aspiring singer. The newspaper also linked the seven-time Cy Young Award winner to former Manhattan bartender Angela Moyer and Paulette Dean Daly, a former wife of champion golfer John Daly.
Clemens denied having an affair with a 15-year-old but didn’t specifically address whether he had a romance with McCready.
“Even though these articles contain many false accusations and mistakes, I need to say that I have made mistakes in my personal life for which I am sorry,” Clemens said in a statement issued by spokesman Patrick Dorton. “I have apologized to my family and apologize to my fans. Like everyone, I have flaws. I have sometimes made choices which have not been right.”
The apology was first reported by the Houston Chronicle.
McNamee, Clemens’ former trainer, accused the pitcher in December’s Mitchell Report of using performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, 2000 and 2001, before players and owners agreed to ban them from baseball.
Clemens, a 354-game winner, has repeatedly denied using steroids and human growth hormone. The defamation suit is being contested in federal court in Houston.
“I think what it says without saying it is that he apparently admits he cheated on his wife and family. And if he cheated on them, I think it’s reasonable to assume that he cheated his fans and baseball,” Richard Emery, one of McNamee’s lawyers, said in a telephone interview.
“I think this is all very probative of his behavior and his penchant for denying the truth, and it certainly will come into play in the defamation lawsuit. He certainly doesn’t deserve to be compensated for loss of reputation when his reputation, to the extent he ever had it, of being a family man, was totally false and built on a house a cards, a tissue of lies, if you will.”
Clemens tried to draw a distinction between McNamee’s allegations and the Daily News reports.
“I believe my personal life has nothing to do with the accusations of steroid and HGH use,” Clemens said. “I have already made clear that I did not use them. Now, I have been accused of having an improper relationship with a 15-year old girl. Nothing could be further from the truth. This relationship has been twisted and distorted far beyond reality. It is just one of many, many accusations that are utterly false.
“I realize that many people want me to simply confess and apologize for the conduct that I have been accused of, but I cannot confess to, nor apologize for, things I did not do. I have apologized to my family for my mistakes, and having offered this apology to the public, I would ask that you let me and my family deal with these matters in private.”
Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said last week he will talk with his client about whether to proceed with the defamation suit following the wave of unpleasant publicity.
“He’s getting pummeled,” Hardin said. “I’ve never seen somebody get beat up like this. In some ways, I think we’re on uncharted ground.”
The decision on whether to drop the suit rests with Clemens.
“That’s always a decision the client has to make,” Hardin said. “That’s not the lawyer’s decision.”
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So, what the h.e.l.l. is going on? Why do people think they are “patriotic” when they vote for John McCain, or, when they voted for George Bush?
Politicians always talk so passionately and convincingly about our men and women in uniform, but when it comes down to it, what do they really do? Talk is cheap. Aren’t you sick of being lied to?
I have two friends, each high ranking officers, on second and third tours, respectively, and each are fed up. They don’t want to quit, but each are compelled to leave the US armed services. One thing they are certain of is NOT voting McCain come November.
So McCain is out, and no one in their right mind would vote for the Communist Clinton, so that leaves Obama or a third party delegate.
Everyone should be writing to Congress and the Senate to allow offshore drilling and opening up the Alaska Oil Field. Our demand for oil is greater than the supply. We are ALL allowing 545 people to control how we live (we the people).
We are paying the same people who want to kill us for their oil.
Hillary’s plan is socialist and near communism. Obama’s plan is just plain stupid. There is NO plan! They should leave the oil companies alone and allow offshore and Alaska oil production. Write your representatives today and stop depending on other people to do it for you. If you don’t write them you do not have a right to complain.
Again, that approach is wrong based on fundamental economics. The oil market is global. Oil from ANWAR is subject to the same market dynamics as oil from the Middle East. He who has the most reserves in the oil market has the most influence on price; two-thirds of the world’s oil is in one general area, and nothing is changing that.
If this is hard to understand than a plan like Senator Obama’s is probably impossible to comprehend: cut consumption, allow incentives for industry and culture to transform over time. Pretty simple.
If you think “cutting dependance on foreign oil” [cue crowd cheering and applause] is going to significantly reduce the price of gas in this country, you are gravely mistaken. Sorry, but we cannot drill our way out of this. We could tear up all of Alaska and it wouldn’t make much of a difference. It is a huge global market. The oil would simply be sold on the open market like all of the rest of the world’s oil. It would not be enough supply to solve our fossil fuel addiction.
The only gains would be made by the oil company’s. It’ll trickle down a bit to your 401K though!
Kudos to MW for at least giving equal exposure to Obama and Hillary. In the past, this has been a pro-Hillary site, but as of late, there has at last been some balance in the reporting. If MW is not careful, they might get a reputation for balanced reporting! Well, at least until that dork writes another left wing socialist diatribe about how the U.S. should save the world from starvation!
The term “Clinton” just has such a nasty feel to it that it should only be used when expressing strong emotion, such as when one uses a curse word.
150 of the most decorated economists signed and published a petition against the gas tax holiday idea yesterday; here’s an excerpt:
“As economists who study issues of energy policy, taxation, public finance, and budgeting, we write to indicate our opposition to this policy. There are several reasons for this opposition. First, research shows that waiving the gas tax would generate major profits for oil companies rather than significantly loweing prices for consumers. Second, it would encourage people to encourage people to keep people buying costly imported oil and do nothing to encourage conservation. Third, a tax holiday would provide very little relief to families feeling squeezed. Fourth, the gas tax suspension would threaten to increase the already record deficit in the coming year and reduce the amount of money going into the highways trust fund that maintains our infrastructure.”
Perhaps the people of Indiana and North Carolina take notice today.
But, then again, these economists are probably just “elitest types, who are out of touch.” I mean, only three of them won the Nobel prize, and only one of them was Bill Clinton’s chief economic advisor during his presidency. It is probably “Just more pro-Obama c.r.a.p.”…
I looked up the first four names on this petition. Two of them (Aaron and Stiglitz) have given the maximum amount ($2300) for Obama for his primary. For the other two there was no record of contributions. These people couch their statement by saying that the proposal wouldn’t “significantly” lower costs for consumer and that it would save “very little” for families, the standard weasel words for statements of this kind. Nowhere do they say, as Obama did originally, that lowering taxes might raise prices on gasoline, certainly a dumb thing to say and an example of Obama’s ignorance of economics.
My conclusion is that these economists are just elitest types who are out of touch and that this is just more pro-Obama c.r.a.p….
Joseph Stiglitz is a pretty smart cookie; I suggest his “The Three Trillion Dollar War.”
There is a broad consensus among economists; it may not be what you want to hear, but they do not side with pandering politicians on this one– and that is a good thing.
If all market conditions stay constant, which they will not, as time can not stand still, perhaps an 18 cent cut would translate to a 9 cent savings to the end consumer. Gas cost in August, even with a 9 cent reduction, will be higher than it is now in May. You can negate every fact and post, but it won’t change that. Sorry to break it to you…
I’m not sad. It’s predictable. It’s election time and all these academic types come out of the woodwork to see if they can get a big job in big government. My guess is that many of them are applying for the President’s (Obama) Council of Economic Advisors. And …. perhaps …. Secretary of the Treasury? You can consider the petition an application form.
I forgot Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Obama may want to pick his own. Now would that be a feather in the cap of your average everyday economist or what?
Crushing the market by promising to spike cap gains taxes so everyone must sell all their stock and all their real estate by year end 2008 is a formidable election strategy.
Nadar is the strongest economist to seek the presidential seat, it is too bad that he does not have other qualifications, such as foreign affairs, workings of government, state and federal policy, legislative experience, etc. But then again, neither did Carter, Bush, Obama, Hillary, etc.!
Has anyone else done the math on the so called gas tax break? They are proposing to suspend a tax amount of 18.4 cents/gal for peak travel times. (i.e. holidays such as memorial day etc) Given that during a 3 day weekend a family (people the relief is supposed to help) might, if they drive a lot, burn 15 gallons of gas that is a whopping savings of $2.76. WOW WHAT A RELIEF for a minute there I thought I was going to have to spend $45 instead of $42.24 to fill up. THANK YOU GAX TAX BREAK DURING PEAK TRAVEL HOLIDAYS PROGRAM!
Gas prices, energy crisis, both are like a disease and are only mentioned when there is an election. After that everyone forgets about and lets the disease spread.
Supply-Demand are key factors in any commodity prices.
Our “doctors” (politicians) have no clue, training and or knowledge of symptoms, treatment and rehabilitation from the disease. They cannot fathom the realities and scientific facts.
It was the congress that passed the ethanol mandate, had they stopped to think and evaluate, and then act instead of acting out of what is populist thinking, gas prices wouldnt be as high.
Because:
1. Ethanol takes up petroleum to produce (transport/processing etc and growing process needs fertilizers derived from petroleum)
2. This increases the demand for petroleum and petroleum derived products.
3. More of these petroleum products are used now in the production of ethanol
4. Scientific research shows ethanol is neither good for the environment nor energy efficient in its energy yield compared to fossil fuels.
5. There is a net deficit of energy output using ethanol.
6. So, to get the same mileage when you add ethanol you need to burn more gas.That leads to an additional consumption increase of ethanol.
7. Ethanol added to gasoline brings an additional cost to the finished product that is gasoline that is pumped into the fuel tanks.
8. This cost will reflect in the final price of gasoline.
9. Politicians used rhetoric and dis-information to push this ethanol mandate because the agribizz lobby, corn lobby and then the votes that would come from the corn belt.
End result is we are paying more for gas at the pump because there is an added component that has to be in the gas and its price included.
10. Supply demand increases as people demand more products, everything that we buy and use, from housing, furniture, carpeting, tools, cars, clothing, toys, microchips, electronic gadgets all now have more petroleum derived parts . Therefore more need for petrochemicals and petrochemicals come from
crude oil.
11. The gas tax holiday is a useless, illogical concept to help reduce the costs, the benefits are very minute compared to the adverse effects.
A person may save 27-30$ in 3 months versus the loss of billions in revenue to the gov for roads and bridges. Who will pay for it?
Besides it will take a while to even pass this bill. In the meantime politicians are using this to blow smoke into the peoples eyes. When the smoke clears, there will be bigger tear drops from the people who buy this rhetoric
Not that I opposed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, but it was recently reported that Bill and Hillary made over $106 Million in wages, salaries, royalties from books and speaking engagements. To make that much money is to be part of the upper class. Not too many of us make that kind of money. She is part of the elite.
Additionally, her husband cut out welfare for the poor. We cannot forget that either.
Whichever candidate and party wins in this next election will awake the day after to a very shocking and rude confrontation with reality.
As most people can see; all of the proposed fixes are mostly theory and pipe dreams.
I think we can safely predict that after a few months of the new administration there will be a lot of contentious bickering and accusations within the admin. due to the ineffectiveness of it’s policies and programs. The public has no patience any more and wants solutions “yesterday”.
You can’t so easily fix problems of the magnitude we are now facing as a nation and a world with a few pieces of legislation, it requires some core change at all levels of our government and society,and sadly most will not be willing to do so.
I’m afraid the new administration, by this time four years from now, will be wondering what hit them with such force and brutality.
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She was hot but pretty stupid… I should have known better.