Comments on: Roger Clemens trying to get his legal expenses paid for by the feds http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sat, 25 May 2013 00:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/comment-page-1/#comment-220446 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:19:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=97237#comment-220446 Right you are Kelly, “Clemens should (not) have been placed in that position”. Guess who’s partially responsible for Rog being in that position? A man of possibly low character and questionable public behaviour. Possibly even a cheater at baseball. His name? Roger Clemens.

If old Rog had kept his yip shut, this wouldn’t be happening. Congress had to substantiate if McNamee was lying. If Clemens had said “I don’t want to be involved in a federal investigation, therefore I have no comment,” none of this “Lying to Congress” stuff happens. He’d have some public perception issues, but nothing to this degree. His fool of a lawyer should have made this clear to him. I think being a millionaire played against Clemens here. His lawyer may not have made it clear to him; thus he gets his name in the press as “Roger Clemen’s Experienced Law Dog” and a good chunk on Rog’s millions.

You or I being poor (but infinitely better smelling and looking than Rog) would likely get the “say nothing” advice; we don’t have millions to be soaked out of.

]]> By: sparkycon http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/comment-page-1/#comment-220396 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:40:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=97237#comment-220396 uh, that should be putting people back to work not pupping…duh…

]]> By: kellyb9 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/comment-page-1/#comment-220393 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:33:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=97237#comment-220393 Bill Clinton would beg to differ on your first point, but that’s another discussion for another time. There is, and should be, a big difference between telling a lie and telling a lie under oath. I don’t necessarily believe Clemens should have been placed in that position, but he was regardless. Also,I take issue with comparing a millionaire to one of us regular folk. He’d be in jail right now if it wasn’t for his defense team.

]]> By: steveohho http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/comment-page-1/#comment-220375 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:12:45 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=97237#comment-220375 How come its all right and proper for Congress to lie to us, but if one of us peons lies to them its perjury? Ridiculous. I suppose we are all “equal under the law”, but that some are far more equal than others.

The feds have unlimited money to try people over and over no matter how spurious the case or how much buffoonary the lawyers commit, where as the defendant no matter how rich they are has to foot their own legal bill.

]]> By: sparkycon http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/comment-page-1/#comment-220372 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:08:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=97237#comment-220372 What i would like to know: is it worth the millions of dollars spent here, and the 10+ million spent on the Barry Bonds trial? Is this an effective use of our tax dollars? Hell no. They should be spending this money pupping people back to work or something actually worth while. These are not anti-government spies, they are BASEBALL PLAYERS!

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/comment-page-1/#comment-220352 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:22:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=97237#comment-220352 “how a guy as slimy as Clemens and as inept as Clemens’ laywer Rusty Hardin have handed (the prosecutors) public butt-whuppins”
- Too bad you don’t golf, Craig. You’d recognize this little trait. In golf it’s easy to fall into the trap of playing to the level of your competition.

]]> By: Francisco (FC) http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/09/roger-clemens-trying-to-get-his-legal-expenses-paid-for-by-the-feds/comment-page-1/#comment-220351 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:21:07 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=97237#comment-220351 As much as Clemens is such a slime-ball the prosecutors seriously screwed up, I have a hard time seeing the Federal Government avoid paying Clemen’s legal fees for their lapse in judgement. Tax Dollars at work folks!

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