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Originally Posted by Purple Cowboy
Apparently Roger Clemens' team planned a lawsuit to coincide with the 60 Minutes interview. The Daily News says he "has fired the first salvo in his legal war with former trainer Brian McNamee, filing a defamation suit against McNamee Sunday night."
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Apparently it goes even deeper than that. Granted, this is just a news report, but assuming it's true then Clemens was preparing to attack McNamee before word of what he told the investigation even came out. If Clemens indeed never took steroids, why would he consider arguing as such before the allegations were even made?
This is kind of like OJ's legal team trying to have DNA evidence thrown out before the tests were even completed. Why throw out something that may exhonerate you at a time when supposedly the results are unknown, unless you knew all along what they were going to say?
http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/mlb#
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But well before the Mitchell Report accused Roger Clemens of using steroids, the pitcher and his advisers were working on a battle plan to save his reputation. Clemens knew the report would include scandalous allegations by his pal, Brian McNamee, who told investigators he injected the hurler with steroids and human growth hormone multiple times. Some close to the pitcher advocated a full-out attack even before the report was released on Dec. 13. The idea was to leak news of Clemens' alleged steroid use - and use the opportunity to slam McNamee. The result would have been to question whether the ex-trainer - who has had two drunken-driving arrests, was once accused of rape and faced federal drug charges - could be believed. But Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, and his agent, Randy Hendricks, rejected that strategy and instead advised the Rocket to stay quiet and endure the fallout.
New York Post
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