Sports Questions and Answers
What to do something like Roger Clemens?
Should Mr. Clemens be prosecuted for perjury or let it be? Please pass your reasons why or why not.Answers: The folks who say steroids isn't an issue are right. MLB and Bud Selig MADE it not an issue. It wasn't Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens or Rafael Palmiero -- it be the corporate head of baseball. We still don't know and never will know who did what when and MLB doesn't safekeeping and the Players' Association is as culpable and as guilty as anyone. The players who took the drugs may be guilty, but their crimes are forever masked in MLB's greed and indifference to the hobby.
That being said, both Bonds and Clemens may own lied in situations contained by which to have lied is to enjoy committed perjury. If that is the covering, they, and anyone else, should be punished. This doesn't necessarily mean thorny time or huge fines, but certainly more than a slap on the wrist.
But MLB should also be held in charge and congress would be within its rights to palm off sanctions and punishments in that, too. (Fat chance THAT will ever crop up.)
If he lied, he should face the consequences, similar to anyone else who perjured themselves under oath. Let it be! I don't even know why this is an issue. Steroids and other behaviour enhancing drugs have be used in pro sports for decades. I bet you that most of the guys within the hall of recognition used at some point as well. Hell, citizens didn't even know steroids were desperate for you until the 80's and they have be around since since the 50's in useable form.
Do they own nothing better to do than turn after a baseball legend? They should be prosecuting drug dealer and holding hearings on how to engineer the world better/safer instead of this nonsense. If he lied while below oath, then he should be prosecuted. There's no valid idea why he should be allowed to skate. It doesn't matter who you are. As soon as you elevate your hand and swear to share the truth, you are bound by law to do so. If you do not, you should be prosecuted for perjury.
It also doesn't situation what your stance is on Congress holding these hearings. Personally, I agree that they enjoy better things to do than to pretend to police Baseball. If Clemens is allowed to get away near lying to Congress, it sends a message that it's OK to lie to the authorities if you are rich adequate.
Seems to me like the Justice Department should own better things to do than waste time prosecuting someone who (probably) lied something like whether someone stuck a needle contained by his butt. Nobody really believes him anyway, so who cares? How is prosecuting Clemens going to do any perfect for anybody not named McNamee? Is he a menace to society? Is my relatives and I going to sleep better at night knowing that Clemens is going to "pay" for his lies? I don't imagine so. Other than Clemens and McNamee, are there any "victims" here for this "crime"? It'll be a spend of time and money. YEP, he lied through his teeth and know's the consequences. I say throw his azz contained by jail.
I other liked Him as a Pitcher for the Yankees... -But I haven't be too "Impressed" by His Behavior as a Witness for the Truth... It looks like He's "Stonewalling..." & more concerned out protecting His Reputation- than helping Baseball attain to the bottom of this Steroid nonsense... :( He's gonna stir to jail. He lied and its time to frontage the music.
What's the difference at this point whether he or Bonds or any of these players did or did not take steroids? As I watch the hearings I couldn't help out but wonder how many of those senators at some point within their careers lied roughly one thing or another. It really did seem to be hypocritical to me. A complete waste of the charge payers money.
The real punishment for these players will be that, if they are proven guilty, they will never win the one thing that will suggest more to them than anything else, to be elected into baseball's hall of importance.
What's done is done. The best thing to do in a minute is move on and hope that the hobby will clean itself up tremendously soon.
Hard to say any way. I enunciate just tolerate the Justice Department folks do their jobs. If they find evidence that Clemens committed perjury, they should pursue it. If he lied underneath oath, he might be wearing pinstripes this summer, playing for the Leavenworth Yankees.
YES HE SHOULD ....HES A LIER AND A CHEATER I have never be a Clemens fan (even when he played for the Sox), but I utter no. The government should never enjoy started this whole article in the first place.
I believe that the establishment should have no right to ask culture to incriminate themselves. Asking professional sports figures and team (Bonds, Clemens, Patriots) if they used anything to give them an unreasonable advantage is a terrific misuse of taxpayers hard earn money. I thought we were busy wasting money on a period of war that most of the country doesn't want. Now we are wasting money on things that happened surrounded by sports 5 - 10 years ago. What's next? Are we going to indict the Beatles because they may hold used the influence of illegal substances to assistance them write "The Magical Mystery Tour"? Where does it end? It's another example of our elected official abusing their organization and making up excuses on why they can't get anything done. It's also a squander of the Court's time.
He sure should be prosecuted. Anyone else would have to obverse the music. Lets just take it over with. Put his carcus within jail, and forget in the order of him and his sorry life. Leave the poor guy alone