Check out our Clemens hearing live blog right here. Sigh. This is true: Congressman Lacy Clay just took it upon himself to ask Roger Clemens which uniform he would wear into the Hall of Fame. The Rocket refused to answer, and there was much chortling.
We already know that some House Oversight Committee members are scurrilous baseball fans; getting an autograph with taking photos with Roger Clemens sealed that deal. But who knew that the members of the committee would come into today's hearing with such hard and fast opinions of both McNamee and Clemens?
It seems few of the committee members don't have their minds made up. Either Clemens is lying, or McNamee is lying, depending on who you are. For example, Rep. Tom Davis has defended Roger Clemens' throughout the day, mounting a B12-infused defense about the famed abscess on Clemens' butt. When Committee chair Henry Waxman attempted to lay out the two sides of the debate, it was hard to tell who yelled "B12!" faster: Clemens, or Davis. Davis even went so far as to call a medical question addressed to Clemens as a "new definition of lynching." (Whether it was a "high-tech lynching" was left to the citizen to decide.) The best pro-Clemens show of the day thus far has come from Indiana's Dan Burton, who was practically screaming at Brian McNamee, calling him a liar, and claiming the trial-by-media circus surrounding today's events is a product of an overzealous media. Both Davis and Burton are Republicans.
