So having been negligent and then indecisive, how did Selig react when someone leaked supposedly confidential test results that in 2003 Alex Rodriguez used two no-no drugs (about which A-Rod--unlike Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens--immediately came clean)?
All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens said yesterday he has never taken banned performance-enhancing drugs.
Those amazing years of 60-plus home runs (and 98 mph fastballs by middle-aged Roger Clemens) changed the pleasure of watching baseball from sublime to sensational.
And, make no mistake, when I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.
The former All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens remains in court, attempting to clear his name in a scandal that has forever tarnished the game of baseball.
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Or, maybe hold this administration accountable for something as opposed to grilling Roger Clemens and his - like, there's so much more they could be focusing on.
And yet, we have lie after lie after lie after lie after lie, where you've told this committee and the people of this country that Roger Clemens did things - I don't know what to believe.
And let me be clear, despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens or anyone else with lidocaine or B-12.
The victory helped the Department of Justice offset losses in other high profile cases involving baseball legend Roger Clemens and former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards.
Today's memorabilia-conscious era saw Roger Clemens change jerseys in the middle of a game in which he was going for his 300th win, creating more overall cash but diluting the value of each individual item.
This latest steroid scandal comes a few weeks after it was revealed that former stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were denied first-ballot entry into the MLB Hall of Fame due to links to steroid use.
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But as their statements were rather - this was very damaging against Roger Clemens.
This is being regarded as The Steroid Era ballot with good reason as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa are first-time eligibles.
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With the exception of Roger Clemens, recent retirees and 300-game winners Randy Johnson (303), Tom Glavine (305), and Greg Maddux (355) have all but secured their status as first-ballot hall of famers in the coming years.
Teixeira spoke out against PEDs when asked about the rejection of all candidates in this year's Hall of Fame vote, a group that included seven-time MVP Barry Bonds and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens.
What would-be Hall of Fame pitcher Roger Clemens could have or should have said before he allegedly obstructed a congressional inquiry with statements made under oath, and whether it might have prevented him from what is going on now, is obsolete.
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She also made headlines for claiming to have had a 10-year affair with former baseball star Roger Clemens that began when she was a teenager.
Four weeks after Major League Baseball's career home-run leader was indicted on charges of lying to a grand jury about steroid use, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and other big stars of the game were named in a long-awaited report from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
But to go door to door in the halls of Congress, literally lobbying - hello congress person, I'm Roger Clemens.
Unlike another former Texas legend Roger Clemens who consistently and adamantly disavows any personal wrong-doings, this is not the time to be defiant and say that you have done no wrong.
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And the one thing that stood out dramatically was that Brian McNamee, the former personal trainer to Roger Clemens, said he had injected several players with banned performance-enhancing drugs - human growth hormone and anabolic steroids.
So, then what Cummings did was he pointed out that Pettitte said in his deposition that in 1999 - either 1999 or 2000, he had a conversation with Roger Clemens in which Clemens admitted using human growth hormone, banned human growth hormone.
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But that is not so easy for athletes who cheat, as we were reminded by last week's vote to exclude Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens from baseball's Hall of Fame, based almost exclusively on alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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