In one of his recent articles, Steve Campbell of the Houston Chronicle made a couple of great points about the Mitchell Report and the daily slam fest that has occurred over the past couple weeks between Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee.
The time, effort and money spent on the Mitchell Report could have gone into cleaning up baseball in the present and future. Instead of destructive wallowing in the past, baseball could have done something constructive.
Right or wrong, this is where we are. We can’t vaporize the report. We can’t pretend it never happened, especially because so few players contested the findings.
Maybe Clemens is an incredibly unlucky man caught in a perfect storm of suspicion and impossible-to-prove-false accusations. Maybe Clemens is an incredibly proud man in the middle of a tragic fall from grace caused by his hubris.
Soon enough, Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee will be legally bound to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Clemens has his version, McNamee has his. And if both men stick to their stories, exactly how do we decide whose truth is the truth?
I completely agree. Bud Selig and the rest of MLB needs to recognize that it now has a very flawed time period in their history and create something positive out of it. Don’t pussyfoot around – get a highly effective testing policy in place and make sure you stick to it.
As far as Clemens and McNamee are concerned, Campbell’s right in saying that the truth is about to come on regarding whether or not the Rocket took steroids. And one of these guys will go to jail if they lie to congress.
