Roger Clemens filed a defamation suit against his former trainer, Brian McNamee, who has claimed to have injected the Rocket with performance-enhancing drugs.
Clemens’s defamation suit was filed Sunday in Harris County, Tex., the same day an interview with Clemens aired on the CBS program “60 Minutes” in which Clemens denied ever using steroids or human growth hormone. The suit alleges that McNamee was pressured by federal prosecutors to provide information to Mitchell’s investigators after he initially said Clemens had never used banned substances. The suit lists 15 statements McNamee made to Mitchell that the suit contends are “untrue and defamatory.”
Is anyone else reminded of the Seinfield episode where George keeps lying about renting a place in the Hamptons so that he can get out of visiting Susan’s (his deceased ex-girlfriend) parents? George tells a lie and then has to keep telling lies in order to cover up the previous lie.
Everything points to Clemens lying. Yet, like George when he actually drove Susan’s parents up to the Hamptons even though he had no place there, Clemens is doing whatever he can to try to prove his innocence. If he truly is telling the truth about not taking roids, then he should go to great lengths to prove his innocence. But if he’s just doing whatever he can to cover up his original lie, then he’s going to have a similar fate as one George Costanza. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
