Clemens-y

So it looks like Roger Clemens has been declared NOT GUILTY after all these years. It doesn't really matter - as I wrote HERE, if you hate Clemens/the Yankees there's nothing that can be done to make you think he's innocent, and prolly the vice versa if you're a lover/Yankees fan. The point is, Clemens' career is already stained beyond repair and this whole nonsense will go down as a big part of his legacy.

I'm glad that I stuck to my original premise throughout: why the fuck would I automatically take Brian Macnamee's word over Clemens any more than I would Clemens over Macnamee? Or, as Dog was dumb enough to do, for some reason believe Pettitte 100% even though he ADMITTED juicing. Because, of course, Pettitte's a Christian:

And his latest nugget is yammering on about whatever Pettitte says will hafta be the truth and he won't cover up for Clemens because of, get this, Pettitte's religion. Dog is barking that as a born-again Christian, Pettitte will be forced to tell the truth. So now we're judging and holding people according to their religions, we're playing some sort of priest/psychologist now like we've started to do with our presidential candidates. Dog is gleefully jumping up and down that Pettitte's religion will force him to drop the hammer on Clemens. So Pettitte is gonna be a super-Christian on Wednesday, but it was okay for him to cheat and use HGH before? Dog's understanding of how a born-again Christian lives his life should override Pettitte's earlier actions? Pettitte was okay to cheat and go against the sancitity of the game as a Christian, and that doesn't give Dog pause re: how much stock we should be putting in his Christian-ness on Wednesday?

This whole thing was a crapfest from the beginning; Congress embarrassing itself slobbering over Clemens, and then people immediately taking sides with zero thought. "Ooooh, Clemens isn't a sweetheart guy, he's a bullying jock, so he's guilty!!!" Gee, I'm sorry you weren't the high school quarterback at your prom. Meanwhile, we have no idea who the hell Brian Macnamara is. Maybe he's a saint, maybe he's not, who the fuck knows.