You are the lawyer for Roger Clemens. Your client has been accused of using performance enhancers. Would you utter the following thought out loud [it is bolded below] to a reporter who will eventually write up a story?
Roger Clemens said former trainer Brian McNamee injected him with the painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin B-12 — not any performance-enhancing drugs.In the first excerpts released from the pitcher's interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," which is to be broadcast Sunday night, Clemens maintained the denials he has issued since McNamee implicated him in the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball, which was released Dec. 13.
McNamee, a former strength coach for the Blue Jays and Yankees, told Mitchell he personally injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while they were with Toronto, and with steroids and human growth hormone in 2000 and 2001 while with New York.
"Roger took bunches of his shots over his career, much the way racehorses do, unfortunately," said Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin.
Repeating...much the way racehorses do.
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I like how you're using humor to make a larger point: what is Clemens' strategy for defending what looks indefensible? I wrote in a similar vein wrote about how he used a cocktail of social and mainstream media to try and control the situation, and how avoiding the full force of the media could blow up in his face. It's at: http://www.beaupre.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/3/The-Rockets-steady-glare
if you're interested in another take. Nice job!
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