Keeping An Eye On It...

Well it took a while, but anything that takes this long has a good chance of being done correctly, right? Roger Clemens was finally indicted by a Federal Grand Jury today for 6 charges stemming from his making false statements under oath. Normally I'd be very excited about the prospect of Roger Clemens being indicted, but it's hard for me to really dive in that pool right now, since Barry Bonds hasn't done a stitch of jail time yet (Greg Anderson has done about 5 times as much as Bonds would have incidentally), and Miguel Tejada got off with a pretty tame slap on the wrist too. Still, this has some promise, and I'll certainly pay attention to what happens with the indictment.

I remember watching those entire Congressional Hearings from start to finish two and a half years ago in total shock. Shock not only for the depths of Clemens own self-denial that he had taken PED's, but the numerous members (mostly Republican Dan Burton) of Congress who BELIEVED him. Burton in particular went after McNamee really hard in his line of questioning, and flat out called him a liar while in the very next breath calling Roger Clemens a "Titan". I remember screaming at McNamee to look at Burton and say, "If you don't want to believe me Congressman, go ask Andy Pettitte if I'm telling the truth." Unfortunately, he never did.

As for Clemens, this indictment will hopefully be the final nail in his own self-imposed coffin. I've never taken so much joy watching someones own arrogance cause such self-destruction. If you're keeping score at home, since the Mitchell Report confirmed what we all suspected about Clemens being a juice-head, we've heard Clemens say (under oath mind you) "No that was my WIFE'S Human Growth Hormone", found out about his affair with Mindy McCready which could have happened when she was 15, watched him tell Mike Wallace that "hard work" was responsible for his accomplishments, and finally watched him have his name removed from Charity Golf Tournaments plus Institutions of Sports Medicine that once bore his name.

If Clemens does in fact end up in jail for this it will drip of irony because the only person really responsible for putting Roger Clemens in jail...is Roger Clemens.