Clemens to Appear on 60 Minutes Re: PED Use

by Christopher Reardon

Make sure you check out this Sunday's edition of 60 Minutes if you're at all interested in the ever-growing performance-enhancing drug scandal in major league baseball. Legendary pitcher Roger Clemens will finally address accusations made in Senator George Mitchell's report to the commissioner's office regarding the scandal. The Mitchell report named around eighty current and former major leaguers who have been involved in performance-enhancing drug use, but perhaps no name dropped had as much impact as Clemens'. Sure, Barry Bonds took up a good chunk of the report, but no one really doubted his use of PEDs over the past seven years. The fact that the Rocket was called out as a user means that the two best players in the last twenty years (and possibly of all time) gained much of their success artificially.

On 60 Minutes Clemens will say that while he did allow trainer Brian McNamee to inject him with substances, these were simply painkillers (lidocaine) and B-12 which, he claims, were for his joints. Skip Bayliss on ESPN's First Take this morning brought up a good point: If these injections really were for Clemens' joints, then why would they have been injected into the Rocket's buttocks, as the Mitchell report claims, and not directly in the joints themselves?

Regardless of how you feel about Clemens' and PEDs in baseball, 60 Minutes should be a good watch. Check it out Sunday, Jan. 6 at 7pm.

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