Yardbarker: Roger Clemens

Met batboy Radomski finds evidence of Rocket fuel delivered to Roger Clemens's Houston pad

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:12:58 -0500

Met batboy Radomski finds evidence of Rocket fuel delivered to Roger Clemens's Houston pad The New York Daily News reported that Metboy Kirk Radomski found receipts for packages of HGH shipped to the Rocket's Houston launching pad. The new evidence further complicated Clemens's steroid/HGH defense. (Update: ESPN reports Metboy Radomski found the Clemens receipt under a broken TV: "My TV broke and I said, 'Damn, I got to get it off the dresser,'" Radomski said Wednesday. "And it was right there.") Rogerclemensandwifejuiced Confessed drug supplier Kirk Radomski has provided documentary evidence to the government showing that he shipped drugs to the Texas home of Roger Clemens, who is under investigation for perjury after telling Congress he never used steroids or human growth hormone. According to sources with close knowledge of the investigation, Radomski has discovered shipping receipts for a package of two kits of human growth hormone that he sent in late 2002 or 2003 to Clemens at the pitcher's palatial mansion in Houston. Radomski is believed to have also provided the government with new information and receipts for drug shipments to other players. However, the beneficiary of the HGH might not have been the Rocket, but rather Debbie Rocket, Clemens's admitted HGH using wife. Radomski, who received a five-year probation sentence in February after cooperating with government investigators, recently informed the feds about the materials. The Justice Department is continuing its investigation in New York as well as in Texas and Florida. The Clemens package was addressed to William Roger Clemens, in care of Brian McNamee, according to the sources, who said that McNamee did not sign for the package. According to the sources, the timing of the shipment to Clemens' home coincides roughly with the dates when Clemens' wife, Debbie, used human growth hormone in preparation for her participation in a pictorial in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. They also expect the evidence to corroborate McNamee's claims that Clemens was behind his wife's use and was present when McNamee injected her just after the drugs arrived at the couple's home. Clemens denied use of PEDs including anabolic steroids and HGH, however admitted wife Debbie used HGH to prepare for a Sports Illustrated expose photoshoot with the Rocket. Clemens has denied under oath using human growth hormone, or having any prior knowledge that his wife was going to use HGH. The Daily News was the first to report in February that Debbie Clemens received at least one injection of the drug from McNamee. Reached Tuesday by The News, Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said he wasn't aware the government had been informed of new shipping receipts . As Hardin says the Rocket can deny almost anything because he never tested positive for a PED under baseballs anemic PED testing back in his day. However the receipts do suggest that McNamee was truthful when he testified that Clemens was pumping his wife up, and was aware the ex-trainer injected the female Rocket with some extra juice.

Clemens Is Screwed Part Deux

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:22:53 -0500

It's perhaps the deadest day of the sports year, which is extremely bad news for the sinking ship that is the USS Roger Clemens. Two weeks after Brian McNamee's lawyers provided syringes allegedly used by Clemens, admitted 'roid supplier Kirk Radomski reportedly found documentary evidence that HGH was shipped to the pitcher's house...

Report: Receipts show Clemens received shipment of HGH

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:20:39 -0500

Reports have surfaced that convicted steroid distributor Kirk Radomski handed over shipping receipts to federal investigators that proves Roger Clemens received HGH to his Texas home in 2002 or 2003.

Fantasy All Stars - the Late 80's

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:42 -0500

Razzball.com and FBHOF.com continue to recreate All Star teams of the fantasy era. In their third installment, players from '86-'88 are elected. Mike Scott had the best fantasy season ever for someone not in the Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame and Jose Canseco was the best every day player in the game for a time.

THE 'ROID REPORT FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 6

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:24:02 -0500

by Gary Gaffney, MD, Steroid Nation

As American slides into the baseball summer All-Star break, and the Olympic Games slide into the quiet before the Beijing storm, steroid doping enthusiasts(?) focused on the Olympic athletes and the Tour de France riders.

The 2008 Tour -- after huge busts in 2006 (Floyd Landis) and 2007 (Alexandre Vinokourov, and Michael Rasmussen) -- was determined to monitor doping. Almost any drug known to man appeared at some point in the history of the tour. EPO and blood doping, anabolic steroids (Landis), amphetamines, and anti-inflammatory injections, appear to be the most frequently abused drugs during the long ride. Tour authorities thought this year's race might be different. Surprise!

By Day 5, Tour officials announced suspicious signs of doping, followed by news that Manuel Beltran tested positive for EPO, a hormone that promotes production of red blood cells thus increasing oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. The alleged doping may have been nailed by serial blood tests of normal physiological measures. Another major cyclist, Riccardo Ricco was dodging rumors of abnormal blood measures at the end of the week too. Meanwhile, the French announced that last year's dopers -- Alexandre Vinokourov, Iban Mayo and Italian Cristian Moreni -- may be subject of criminal charges in France.

Interesting that Beltran teamed with US cycling and cultural icon Lance Armstrong. Other Armstrong cycling buddies implicated in doping include: Floyd Landis (testosterone), Alberto Contador (Operation Puerto), Tyler Hamilton (blood doping), and Freddie Andreu (blood doping), Birds of a feather?

With the Olympics pending, observers recounted past dopers, and defined current possibilities. Just who should be considered the world's fastest female sprinter? Flo-Jo (Florence Griffith-Joyner) who holds the historic world record, an unassailable 10.49; Marion Jones, second at 10.65; or Frances Christine Arron at 10.73? A conversation with Arron -- who will run at Beijing in 2008 -- reveals she considers her effort tops, dismissing the other 2 female sprinters for doping. She offers particularly harsh words for Jones:

"She has lied for years," Arron said. "She treated everyone as idiots. I'm not choked she is going to jail. Many people criticised me because I was always the one who lost in the Jones-Arron battle, even if I had very good results. We started running together in 1997. She has stolen my best years. Everything could have been different for me."

Although other Olympic hopefuls were caught juicing, particular scrutiny continues on 41 year-old Dara Torres who has never urinated a positive doping test. Opinions on Torres alternate between hero worship as the mother of one takes on the young athletic does ("bucks" didn't work here) beating them in the water, or abhorrence of her ripped muscular physical appearance combined with gravity-defying personal best times in the 5th decade of life which could only be (the argument goes) masterminded with artificial hormonal aid.

At Steroid Nation, we tepidly entered the debate until San Francisco Chronicle columnist Gwen Knapp said Torres was suffering a double standard: men get away with juicing, and women don't. Did she mean Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, and Mark McGwire are all now home free for the Cooperstown Hall of Fame? Did she mean the press was all over Marion Jones from the beginning (took 8 years and multiple denials before she admitted to doping) and Tammy Thomas immediately (took about 4-5 years before she was convicted of lying about steroid use)?

Indeed Torres, now engineering her 3rd comeback (yes her third) swims faster in sprints than she did while a collegiate star at Florida State during WW2, and in the '84, '88, '92, '00 Olympics. In Sydney. she impressively hurdled doping questions about her 2000 Olympic appearance. One would think 8 years, one baby, several surgeries, and a long layoff would bring even more juicing heat on her during the 2008 games in Beijing. However Dara daresya to find a dirty urine in her multi-epoch career. It's going to be All-Dara-All-the-Time for the next month (along with the All-Brett-All-Favre-All-the-Time). Say didn't a very veteran Brett Favre also become pregnant at some time in his illustrious career?

In other juiced Olympic news, the Greeks destroyed their livers with methyltrienolone, (and here) the Chinese are kicking 'roiders out ?and ? (left and right), and the Europeans are baffled why steeplechase athletes would actually juice.

Meanwhile back in the boring US of A, the only doping action in the major sports consisted of opinions about megajuicer Jason Giambi's mustache. At least Giambi didn't use the Butt Wedge or the Urinator to grow his mustache...or did he?

Jose Canseco...KO'd in a minute...I thought Steroids Help>!>

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:32:38 -0500

Vai Sikahema knocked out Steroid Loaded Botox injecting Snitch Snitching Jose Canseco out in a minute.. Sadly enough Vai was fighting for a cause in giving money to a dead cops family, while Canseco you know his intentions were to keep it being the fact that he needs more Botox, another tanning room in his house and his sequel book sold basically nothing. I feel bad for Canseco but then again thats the price you pay for being a dumbass Rico Suave. Jose Canseco for all the crap you've done, I praise you on getting everyone in trouble and baseballs much needed effort to suspend those who juice....Who would ever think Brady Anderson and Bret Boone would hit that many homers..Sadly enough they retired before this drama started..... Read the Article via Link for Details....JUJSt updated it haha, took that long for me to find a good video but they got annoyingass Stephen A Smith talking...But for once I will agree with this guy...

Jesus Christ, Brett

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:48:51 -0500

With attention whores Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds fighting for their life in the courtroom, this summer flip-flopping has consumed hours and hours of sports talk. And to put it as simply as possible, I'm tired of it. Before I unleash my frustration on Brett Favre, I have to admit that I'm a big fan of [...]

Fantasy History of Strikeouts

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:58:29 -0500

The Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame analyzes the fantasy history of strikeouts in the 8th installment of a series investigating statistical trends over the past 3 decades. There have been ten 300 strikeout seasons since 1980 and six of them occurred in the 6 year period of 1997-2002.

One Grieving Indians Fan Puts His Allegiances Up For Sale

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:25:30 -0500

It's a sad thing when a team trades away its best player during the middle of a season, effectively giving up on the season at hand. So what is a fan to do when their team waves the white flag? You could stop caring, for one. Or you could be like this Cleveland Indians fan, grieving over the 2008 campaign after last week's trade of CC Sabathia.

I am an Indian's Fan who clearly doesn't have anything to root for in the next several months, but I want to find a reason to root for something to fill the hole in my soul.

Therefore, I am renting out my enthusiasm to anyone who feels like an extra fan will put them over the top.

Winning this guy's "fandom" comes with quite the package. This dude will not only root as hard as he can for your team, but he'll even watch at least one game a week. And not only will he "at least 3 emails a week telling you how awesome your team is," but he'll also "email a friend of yours and tell them why their team sucks, and why your team is awesome."

But this fan has his limits. There are some things he just won't do...unless you pony up. Want him to root for the Yankees? That's an extra $10,000. It will cost you $35,000 to have him root for a team that Barry Bonds joins. And for all you Major Leaguers out there looking for a one-man rooting squad...that costs extra too.

Package F). If you are a current MLB player and want my exclusive rooting rights for you individually, that will require an additional fee of $10,000.00 (USD) if your BA > .300 or your ERA is <> 3.00 (at the time of the sale) - VOID for Jim Thome, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds

So while the winning bidder will be employing the rooting skills of this guy for the rest of the season it really makes you wonder how much he's willing to give. He is, after all, a turncoat fan. He's already given up on his team. What makes anyone think he won't give up on yours at the earliest inconvenience (such as a crushing loss, for example)? There's at least one believer thus far, who has bid $299 for this guy's fandom. So who's bidding $300?

McNamee Requests that Clemens Suit Be Dismissed

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:36:10 -0500

Brian McNamee has asked a federal court to dismiss Roger Clemens defamation lawsuit, or move the case to New York. The request to dismiss the case is the second such time that McNamee, through his lawyers have done so. In this instance, the request to dismiss follows the addition by Clemens of “intentional infliction of emotional distress” to the claim. McNamee’s lawyers say that if the case isn’t dismissed, it should be moved to New York due to many of the witnesses residing in that State. Business of Sports Network (http://www.businessofsportsnetwork.com/), which includes The Biz of Baseball (http://www.bizofbasketball.com/), The Biz of Football (http://www.bizoffootball.com/), The Biz of Basketball (http://www.bizofbasketball.com/) and The Biz of Hockey (http://bizofhockey.com/). He is contributor to Baseball Prospectus (http://baseballprospectus.com/news/?author=124), and is available as a freelance writer.Brown's full bio is here. (http://www.businessofsportsnetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content view=article id=47 Itemid=18) He looks forward to your comments via email and can be contacted through the Business of Sports Network (http://www.businessofsportsnetwork.com/index.php?option=com_contact view=contact id=2 Itemid=29).

Fantasy History of WHIP

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:30:21 -0500

The Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame analyzes the fantasy history the WHIP statistic in the 7th installment of a series investigating statistical trends over the past 3 decades. Interestingly, the elite pitchers continue to improve their WHIP's despite the increased offensive levels of the 1990's and 2000's.

McNamee Requests that Clemens Suit Be Dismissed

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:15:20 -0500

A Memo from PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:25:04 -0500

To: All PGA Tour players

Re: Pee-pee.

Over the last several years, it has come to the tour's attention that no athlete, male or female, is completely immune to the temptations of performance enhancing drugs. As a result we decided late last August that random drug testing would be necessary to preserve the sanctity and purity of the gentlemen's game. To ensure that no one testee (he or she who takes a drug test) cheats in the benevolent act of giving away his or her urine, it has been mandated that tour member will accompany each randomly selected player to the restroom. We would hate for a doping cheater to pass a test with flying colors because he used a fake plastic penis and borrowed someone else's urine. We'd like to think that if Ben Hogan was still around today, he'd use his real driver to fill up a cup, not a synthetic whizzinator.

This past weekend in Bethesda at the AT&T National, we commenced the random drug testing with Charles Howell III and Davis Love III. Statistics show third generation athletes have a high propensity to dope, so we "randomly" stumbled onto Howell and Love. I'm happy to report that both men had warm, crystal clear urine that smelled of multi-vitamins, and appear to be abiding by all league rules and regulations.

In addition to PGA Tour testing, the women of the LPGA Tour and players on the European Tour will be tested in accordance with this same policy. This will allow us to maintain a global sport devoid of drugs, and solve a few mysteries. For example, Phil Mickelson. With tits like that, is he really a man? Some are skeptical, and a trip to the restroom with "Lefty" would end any and all doubts, even if it means she joins the LPGA.

Another example, John Daly. He looks like he's in his third trimester. Maybe that's because he is. I watched an episode of Oprah a few months back and her guest was a pregnant man. Perhaps a trip to the facilities with Tubby Fat-Tubs will prove he sits down when he pees. If our testing proves Daly is a man, it could still prove that his 8 month prego-looking gut is the result of excessive munchies due to marijuana use.

One other mystery that may be solved: Vijay Singh. Does he pee at all? We've always viewed Singh as a robo-golfer, devoid of any human attributes. He could very well be a cyborg; as far as I know, cyborgs don't tinkle.

For the skeptics and conspiracy theorists, we have ruled in favor of testing any player on the Tour, even if he is injured. We're confident someone out there muses that because random drug testing began less than three weeks after Tiger Woods' final tournament of the '08 season, the PGA has "forced" Tiger to go away for awhile and clean out his body. I can assure you this is not the case. It isn't a case of Major League Baseball urging Roger Clemens sit out two months to clear his body of the juice, or David Stern pushing Michael Jordan to retirement because of gambling problems - Tiger can be tested right now, at this very moment.

In fact, we think it might be necessary to test the players' wives. If a player is doping, odds are his wife isn't immune to a little drug usage, and that's why a trip to the john with Elin Nordegren-Woods might be in order.

Finally, for those players worried or concerned about the possibility of stage freight during the drug testing procedure, we have decided to employ virtual-golf fan galleries when requested. If Sergio Garcia doesn't feel comfortable relieving himself or is simply too self conscious about others seeing his Big Bertha, a Tour-selected group of fans will attend the urination procedure as if it was a championship golf tournament. Various chants and screams of "YOU THE MAN!" and "IT'S IN THE HOLE!" will be provided by our fan galleries, followed by a much-deserved golf clap.

When you finally land it in the cup, the gallery will rejoice. I promise you that.

Thanks again for all your patience and diligence in this matter. Because of your efforts, the gentlemen's game will continue to flourish as clear and pure as the urine you shoot.

--TIM FINCHEM--

Fantasy History of Wins

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:06:17 -0500

The Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame is back, turning its attention to pitchers in the 6th installment of a series investigating statistical trends over the past 3 decades.

Clemens is Screwed

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:14:39 -0500

As reported yesterday by anybody who can still stomach talking about the McNamee-Clemens catfight, Brian McNamee's lawyers submitted syringes and other "steroid paraphernalia" that they claim contains Roger Clemens' DNA...