Clemens: Trainer Only Injected Legal Drug, Roger Clemens Talks To 60 Minutes In Wake Of Mitchell Report

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Roger Clemens: McNamee Injected Me With Drugs ... but It Was Just B-12!
Published 1/3/2008 by PostmanR at FanHouse
... then agreed to do a 60 Minutes interview with uber-fan Mike Wallace, he gives us this from that interview, set to air Sunday: ...

Injections not steroids, says Clemens
Published 1/4/2008 by Eric Haskell at The Bronx Block
... CBS News is reporting that in an interview with Roger Clemens that will air on 60 Minutes on Sunday, the former Yankees pitcher claims that trainer Brian McNamee injected him not with steroids, but with lidocaine, which is a painkiller, and vitamin B-12. ...

Clemens: McNamee injected legal drugs
Published 1/4/2008 by Andrew Fletcher at Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog
Roger Clemens proclaimed his innocence in the upcoming 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace. From the CBS website: Baseball superstar Roger Clemens denies he cheated by using banned substances and says his accuser, former trainer Brian McNamee, only injected him with the painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin B-12. ... When asked by Wallace if McNamee had ever injected him with any drugs, Clemens responds: "Lidocaine and B-12. It’s for my joints, and B-12 I still take today." Clemens calls the accusation ...

Yankee Notes: Clean-up
Published 1/4/2008 by JMM at MY BASEBALL BIAS
... Video of the Mike Wallace/Roger Clemens interview on 60 Minutes has been posted over at CBS.com. Clemens admits that he was injected, but the substance was a “legal” drug. Hmm… ...

Roger Clemens Thinks You're An Idiot
Published 1/4/2008 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
... . Now I've no doubt that when the interview airs on Sunday, Clemens will say that McNamee is lying, but we'll have to wait and see. What we no longer have to wait for though is Roger recycling the same bullshit excuse baseball players who've been caught have been using for a while now. Stop me if you've heard this one before . When asked by Wallace if McNamee had ever injected him with any drugs, Clemens responds: "Lidocaine and B-12. It’s for my joints, and B-12 I still take today." Clemens calls the accusation "ridiculous" and says he "never" used any banned substances. ...

Clemens Admits to Receiving (Non-Steroid/HGH) Injections from McNamee
Published 1/4/2008 by Patrick at YanksBlog.com
The 60 Minutes site has released some quotes from next Sunday's interview with Roger Clemens. He admits to receiving injections from Brian McNamee, but says that they were not steroids or human growth hormone - they were B12 and Lidocaine. They have video of him saying this at the site. Though, as a commenter at the 60 Minutes site points out - it doesn't quite sound like he's saying Lidocaine. Still, it may be a slip of the tongue. In the interview, he swears that he has never used any banned substances. In ...

It Took Roger Clemens Three Weeks to Come Up With Lidocaine and B-12?
Published 1/4/2008 at FanIQ Blog
I'm not expecting a whole lot from Roger Clemens 60 Minutes interview that will air Sunday night. We've already heard the most notable statement coming from the help-me-out planned discussion with Mike Wallace. Clemens admits to being injected by former trainer Brian McNamee: ...

Roger Clemens Gets A World Class Drilling [Roger Clemens]
Published 1/4/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... There's something kind of awesome about Mike Wallace's questioning of Roger Clemens on "60 Minutes," set to air this Sunday. Clemens uses the tired, repeatedly discredited "it was just B-12!" alibi, and boy, does Wallace ever get after him. ...

Where've My Heroes Gone Today? Mick and Keith and Willie Mays
Published 1/6/2008 by Red at Surviving Grady
The Rocket explains it all tonight on 60 Minutes. Myself, I'll be watching my recording of his 20-strikeout game against Seattle at Fenway from 1986 instead. Today's post title courtesy of Buffalo Tom.

Clemens
Published 1/7/2008 by Maryland Orioles' Fan at Oriole Post - Baltimore Orioles Analysis & News; The World of Baseball and Beyond
... affair, there's probably a lot more to the story and it makes me wonder why he just didn't say he what did to the investigators in the Mitchell Report. Right now, his actions are speaking louder than words; alas, I still think there's far more to the story. Considering that the greatest pitcher of this generation and preeminent hitter in the game have been accused of PED and steroid use, the game has been soiled and the world will be watching this case closely. If you didn't see the interview, it's here...

Roger Clemens, Still Talking, Or Something [Roger Clemens]
Published 1/7/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... So, the whole Roger Clemens "60 Minutes" interview has run now and, as you'd pretty much expect, it settled nothing. (Honestly, what happened to Mike Wallace? He used to be tough, right?) Clemens is denying, now ...

Roger Clemens Interview on 60 Minutes Re-Cap
Published 1/7/2008 by digital-derek at SawxBlog
... is in that Bonds category if he likes it or not. This is drama that's going to drag for awhile now, and it'll be interesting to see how Clemens tries to get out of the corner he's painted himself in. This thing's going to be going on for an exhausted amount of time I'm sure (why Clemens is suing), but if and when they're both (Clemens & McNamee) are in front of congress, that'll be some of making the finger wagging of Rafael Palmeiro look like childs play. Click Here to Watch the 60 Minutes Interview Click ...

60 Minutes: John Martorano and Pervez Musharraf Were More Believable Than Roger Clemens
Published 1/7/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... Roger Clemens much anticipated 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace went about how I expected. A very defensive and agitated Clemens, was unconvincing in his defense of steroid allegations from former trainer Brian McNamee. ...

Clemens sues McNamee over Steroid issue
Published 1/7/2008 by John Amato <info@pinstripealley.com> at Pinstripe Alley: Front Page Posts
... see him on 60 Minutes last night. First of all the editing job they did on him was awful. They clipped every response he made and put it into neat little sound bites. Then he waffled like hell when asked if he would take a lie detector test and complained that it would cost him a lot of "cash" to prove himself innocent if that was even possible. Using the " money line" didn't help you Roger. You've made more money than 99% of any worker in this country. You can see the video of him on 60 Minutes here.   ...

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Published 5/28/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
... Let's see here. Since McNamee embarked on his campaign of allegedly extreme and outrageous conduct towards poor Roger Clemens, he has been seen glad handing politicians, talking casually (for him anyway) with Mike Wallace, sipping lattes on his way into testimony, speaking defiantly in open Congress while millions of people watched, working out with the Astros, and building a career as a remote pitching coach. ...