Ever since the Mitchell Report was released Clemens’ people have tirelessly tried to forward the position that McNamee was an unsavory character, a desperate and troubled man. And they are in the position to know this better than anyone, as the Rocket has worked with McNamee for a decade.

Now Clemens is paying the price for associating with a guy like McNamee. What kind of a man either saves used needles and other detritus that are the by-products of drug use, or manufacturers ersatz evidence of this kind? Either way McNamee has revealed himself to be a low-life.

If he was saving used drug needles, McNamee never intended to be Clemens’ Greg Anderson. He’s not a misguided fool who blindly followed his hero and protected him at all costs. A former cop like McNamee is too savvy to let himself become a patsy for a high-profile, super-rich athlete. McNamee has been described by a least one former cop peer as “an undercover super cop” who made many arrests. Do you think McNamee learned some evidence-based lessons about how to cover his ass when he worked as a cop?

And if McNamee has manufactured this evidence to frame his former client, there’s a good chance he knows just how to make such a ginned-up charge look legit.

Great guy.  And until he got pinched he was Roger's buddy.

Roger Clemens has nobody but himself to blame for the predicament that he is in. This latest development just serves to illustrate how in every drug scandal involving a high-profile athlete there’s a major player who is from the underbelly of society. Any time drugs are involved, whether it’s the Hollywood set, high society or a power broker in the field of business, the rules of engagement guarantee that low-lifes and drugs go hand-in-hand.

Regardless of the outcome of this story, Clemens need look nowhere else but into the mirror when it comes to placing blame for how he got himself into this fine mess.

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