Clemens Apologizes For "Mistakes"

Saying he had made "mistakes" in his personal life, Roger Clemens apologized to his family and the public on Sunday.
In his first public comments since he was linked to an extramarital affair, the former New York Yankees pitcher issued a statement that did not detail what those mistakes were.
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Clemens did take the opportunity to deny that he had an affair with country singer Mindy McCready, as was reported by the New York Daily News. He also said that he had not taken performance-enhancing drugs.
"I know that many people want to know what I have to say about the recent articles in the media," Clemens said in the statement. "Even though these articles contain many false accusations and mistakes, I need to say that I have made mistakes in my personal life for which I am sorry. I have apologized to my family and apologize to my fans. Like everyone, I have flaws. I have sometimes made choices which have not been right."
Clemens' statement was first reported by the Houston Chronicle.
The pitcher filed a defamation suit against Brian McNamee, his formal personal trainer, who testified to Mitchell report investigators and Congress that he injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner with steroids and human growth hormone.
Reached Monday by 1050 ESPN New York's Andrew Marchand, Richard Emery, one of Brian McNamee's lawyers, said Clemens should now "run and hide" and make a deal with federal authorities for as "short of a prison sentence as possible."
Dropping the defamation suit "would have been the smart thing to do," Emery said. "They instead put him on bended knee in front of the American public on the issues of his apparent cheating on his wife and his family and are preserving the case, which seems to me completely silly because what they are doing is they are essentially conceding that he had a terrible reputation.
"The only issue now is whether he … cheated with steroids."
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Emery added, "I think what it says without saying it is that he apparently admits he cheated on his wife and family. And if he cheated on them, I think it's reasonable to assume that he cheated his fans and baseball.
"I think this is all very probative of his behavior and his penchant for denying the truth, and it certainly will come into play in the defamation lawsuit. He certainly doesn't deserve to be compensated for loss of reputation when his reputation, to the extent he ever had it, of being a family man was totally false and built on a house a cards, a tissue of lies, if you will."
Citing anonymous sources, the Daily News reported that Clemens "carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two."
In the statement, Clemens said: "Now, I have been accused of having an improper relationship with a fifteen-year-old girl. Nothing could be further from the truth. This relationship has been twisted and distorted far beyond reality. It is just one of many, many accusations that are utterly false."
Clemens refused to reveal the reason for public declaration but concluded: "I realize that many people want me to simply confess and apologize for the conduct that I have been accused of, but I cannot confess to, nor apologize for, things I did not do. I have apologized to my family for my mistakes. And having offered this apology to the public, I would ask that you let me and my family deal with these matters in private."
Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said Friday he will talk with his client about whether to proceed with the defamation suit against McNamee following a wave of unpleasant publicity.
"He's getting pummeled," Hardin said then. "I've never seen somebody get beat up like this. In some ways, I think we're on uncharted ground."
The decision on whether to drop the suit rests with Clemens.
"That's always a decision the client has to make," Hardin said. "That's not the lawyer's decision."

If banging a 15 year old is wrong than ummmmm the rocket doesn't wanna be right!

I did not do steroids.

I did not use HGH.

I did not cheat on my wife.

I did not bang under age girls.

However, I have made some mistakes in my life that I am sorry for.

Ok Roger, whatever bro. Maybe you should just quit talking.

ECS said:

If banging a 15 year old is wrong than ummmmm the rocket doesn't wanna be right!

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I believe him about Mindy McCready. He could have banged a lot better looking 15 year olds that her if he wanted.

quantumleap said:

I believe him about Mindy McCready. He could have banged a lot better looking 15 year olds that her if he wanted.

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have you seen the story with her mom talking about their relationship

What kind of parents let their 15 year old daughter hang around a 29 year old man ?? Flying in his private jet to vegas and other places? The beatles were wrong ,money CAN buy you love ( in every major city)

Credibility??? Got none now.
When he lies in front of a court again, who they gonna believe?

Take a look at his stats and age......juiced for sure.
Dickin a 15 yr. old will sway a lot more people to hate him.

Nothing like a huge dose of vagueness when it comes to apologizing. This type of tactic is straight out the Slick Willy handbook.

ECS said:

have you seen the story with her mom talking about their relationship

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No. Do you have it handy where you can post it?

Why?

Is this more Important than the price of Gas, a loaf of bread, eggs, rice and cigarettes? B/C the G-Men want everyone to forget about reality that is why............. Maybe he married a woman from the part of Texas where woman stop having sex after 16. He might have the "Cult Disease" and preys instead of prays..... :toast:

This putang---ry is messed up!

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No. Do you have it handy where you can post it?

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ummm, shit, I dont even remember where I saw it, I think it was at another sports site. The basics are that the parents I guess were fine with their 15 year old daughter going out with the rocket, especially since he was buying mom and dad stuff. Then in conversation one day he mentioned his kids and they found out he was married.

Sounded like BS, not like it didn't happen, like they had no clue he was married

Mindy McCready's mother recalls moment of truth for Roger Clemens

BY TERI THOMPSON, NATHANIEL VINTON and MICHAEL O'KEEFFE in New York and CHRISTIAN RED in Nashville

NY DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITERS

Updated Sunday, May 4th 2008, 12:35 AM



A few years ago, country singer Mindy McCready brought a special guest to her mother's North Fort Myers, Fla., home.

It was the first time Gayle Inge had met Roger Clemens face-to-face, although they had talked on the phone numerous times and she knew her daughter had traveled to Las Vegas and other cities with the world-famous pitcher.

The man on McCready's arm was as broad as a barrel and played the part of a perfect gentleman to Inge and her second husband. That day, he signed a softball for Inge, since she had no baseballs in the house.

In past years, he'd called Inge's home looking for her daughter. He'd flown Inge's sons on his private plane and bought a sleek set of golf clubs for Tim McCready, their father and Inge's first husband, just like the ones Clemens used. He'd even asked Tim McCready for permission to have a relationship with his daughter.

All was fine until the visitor mentioned something that caught Inge off guard.

"A conversation about his sons came up," Inge says.

Then it hit Inge: Roger Clemens, father of four, was still married.

"Of course, I didn't say anything to him," Inge says. "I said plenty to Mindy about, 'Is there a wife?' I think Mindy was afraid to bring him over here because she was afraid I would say something."

Millions of people, of course, have had extramarital affairs, but most of them are not famous athletes who have won 354 major league games, seven Cy Young Awards and are headed for the Hall of Fame. Most of the affairs aren't with platinum-selling country-and-Western stars. But Clemens lived in an insulated world, a world in which consequences didn't matter if you were rich, famous and could throw a baseball 98 mph.

Dr. Lawrence Balter, a professor of applied psychology at New York University who has not worked with Clemens, says men and women who are as blatant about affairs as Clemens has been have an oversized sense of entitlement.

"They believe if it makes them feel good, it's justified," says Balter.

Clemens was rarely challenged by those around him, says a source close to him, especially those who were on the receiving end of his generosity, including many in McCready's family.

Even Tim McCready found a way to overlook Clemens' entanglements.

"He was the most incredibly honest person I've ever met," says Tim McCready, who lives in Cape Coral, Fla. "We ended up hitting golf balls in my front yard in the middle of the night with his drivers and his golf clubs. He seemed to be a really nice person to me."

After the Daily News first reported on Clemens' lengthy affair with McCready, new details emerged about his shadow life even as he portrayed himself publicly as the devoted husband of wife, Debbie.

"He had chicks stashed in every city - like every athlete, you play golf, you go get drunk and [have sex]," says one source close to Clemens. "In some ways, it's a lonely life."

Clemens' exploits will be a key part of the defamation suit he filed in January against former trainer Brian McNamee, assuming Clemens doesn't drop the suit, as he is believed to be considering. He has claimed his reputation was damaged when McNamee told federal investigators and former Sen. George Mitchell that the pitcher used steroids and human growth hormone.

Legal experts say the state of Clemens' reputation will be central to the case, and McNamee's lawyer, Richard Emery, says he will seek to depose every relevant teammate, trainer, general manager and coach. He'll also grill the women who had relationships with Clemens, including his wife.

Between the defamation case and the federal perjury investigation that was initiated after Clemens' congressional appearance in February, just about every aspect of his life will come under scrutiny: Flight manifests, tax records and bank accounts may all be requested as evidence.

"Every avenue will be explored at deposition," says Earl Ward, another McNamee lawyer.

And the questions won't be easy - they'll be about drug use, sex, money, reputation.

"As we say in my business, it'll be a s--- show," says Emery.

There appear to be enough women linked to Clemens to keep the lawyers busy for quite some time.

There was the lengthy on-again, off-again romance with McCready - which began when the country star was a teenager and spanned the Rocket's career with the Red Sox, Blue Jays, Yankees and Astros. There were relationships with a Manhattan bartender named Angela Moyer and Paulette Dean Daly, golfer John Daly's ex-wife.

There was a woman from New Orleans named Jennifer, who sources say Clemens flew with on a private jet to a University of Florida basketball game, presenting her with diamond earrings in the presence of at least two friends.

Through it all, Clemens never made much of an effort to cover his tracks, at least not once he got comfortable with a woman and her friends or family.

"Damn miracle," says a source close to the couple when asked how Clemens was able to keep his affair with McCready away from the prying lenses of the paparazzi for so many years.

"They took photos together and gallivanted all over Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York," the source says, adding that people may have mistaken McCready for Debbie Clemens.

McCready wasn't the only woman Clemens was squiring around the country. An Orange County friend of Paulette Dean Daly says Clemens and the one-time Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Girl cavorted around Newport Beach, usually with other people in tow.

He saw them on Newport Beach's restaurant row - a place called the Yard House, which he described as a singles joint, and at a restaurant called Villanova.

"They were not an obvious item," he says. "They were never hanging all over each other. I never saw them walking arm-in-arm or kissy-kissy. But they weren't hiding anything, either."

On Manhattan's upper East Side, Clemens was regularly spotted in nightspots with Moyer. A former police officer says their relationship was no secret to New York's Finest.

Clemens also was seen in 2002 in the Foxwoods Resorts Casino in Connecticut with two shapely blonds in their 20s after making an appearance at a charity event.

"He was standing up there at the charity event talking about the importance of family," says one person who attended the event. "Then I see him in the casino with these two girls, rubbing the die on their [breasts]."

Clemens even turned Yankee Stadium into a pickup joint. The pitcher often gave tickets to Yankee games to girls he was wooing.

"He was fairly blatant in the sense that it was a nod and a wink," says a source. "He had girls coming to the Stadium to watch. He got tickets for friends. You wouldn't know they were Roger's seats. A guy escorts chicks around so if anyone said anything, he'd be the wingman."

"Was all of this dangerous?" asks the source. "It looks like it is now."

For much of his career in Major League Baseball, Clemens flirted with disaster, living a secret life that has only recently come under the glare of the spotlight. The results have been dramatic; something even Clemens' lawyer Rusty Hardin says is unprecedented as he has watched his client's reputation disintegrate.

"I've never seen somebody get beat up like this," Hardin told The Associated Press Friday. "In some ways, I think we're on uncharted ground."

"I've never seen somebody get beat up like this," Hardin told The Associated Press Friday. "In some ways, I think we're on uncharted ground."

Typical defense attorney BS statement. It's someone else's fault that Clemen's is a lying, cheating scumbag.

he needs a 2 seed in the RX douche contest

Is Roger still married?

The Wolf said:

I did not do steroids.

I did not use HGH.

I did not cheat on my wife.

I did not bang under age girls.

However, I have made some mistakes in my life that I am sorry for.

Ok Roger, whatever bro. Maybe you should just quit talking.

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Fishhead said:

Is Roger still married?

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i'm sure he is. you think his wife will leave him?
she's seen his roid rages before. i bet she's very afraid of the rocket.

red007 said:

i'm sure he is. you think his wife will leave him?
she's seen his roid rages before. i bet she's very afraid of the rocket.

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Not his pocket rocket! :nohead:

red007 said:

i bet she's very afraid of the rocket.

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I bet he's very afraid of her