Congressional hearings are interesting this way. It's akin to one cleric calling the other a hypocrite.
Pro athletes like Clemens are deities in their own world and rarely challenged. When they are, it tends to happen gently and with their consent, as in a one-on-one television interview, or else privately, as in a disciplinary hearing before a league commissioner, with phalanxes of lawyers and union reps there to defend them. Never are they as nakedly vulnerable as when testifying before Congress—yet none ever seems to grasp this, which is what makes these hearings so bizarre and riveting.
How disorienting it must have been for Clemens, then, to face the hilariously red-faced Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who has the bristling haircut of a 10-year-old boy, carrying on about whether the star witness had “carried Band-Aids for his butt if he bled” through his “designer pants” after receiving a shot of something powerful in his hind quarters. The whole Tom Davis litany was delivered as Tom Davis, seven-term congressman, sat beneath a gilded, gold-framed oil painting of...Tom Davis.
Still, it'd be a good idea for athletes to stop juicing and becoming complete freaks of nature. In the meantime, I'll won't be tuning the television to any pro sports. Well, perhaps ultimate fighting. But that's it.
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If actresses can have fake boobs , then Yankee pitchers can have fake arms.
If that's the overriding attitude, then I'm getting ready to check out of mainstream AMERICA altogether.
Aw c'mon! Why can't a pitcher be juiced?
I think it has something to do with setting a precedent for future generations to mimic, or some crap like that. Nope. Can't allow it.
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