Roger Clemens on the Steroids Investigation and Aftermath | Undeniable with Joe Buck

what has to be discussed on a show like this is the Mitchell report comes out which was Major League Baseball's investigation uh into the depth of the problem of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball and you are mentioned 82 times in this Mitchell report and you are accused of using performance-enhancing drugs and now you're finished playing but you're busier than ever having to deal with the accusations yeah so I think if I didn't Joe if I didn't have family or my sisters and the tight-knit that everybody's kind of heard a little bit about is that I probably told everybody excuse my language to go in their hat you know that's what I should that's what I really like to do now that I know what I know but uh you know there's it's it's shameful I mean uh what Mitchell did I've passed every test I opened up my life to them uh I told them come check whatever you want they spent a lot of our taxpayers dollars we we did it the right way we wanted to deal with facts and we dealt with facts and we found out just through a little spend a little money about who these people are and who these accusers are that came into our lives one of which was Brian mamy I don't I don't even want to mention his name because it makes me sick to my stomach because like I told y'all I look for the good in people I don't think people are trying to get into my life yeah I don't I don't look at people like they're trying to get what I know now but what I knew then so I'm telling you what I know now that I find out people had an agenda and they look into to they're they're looking to uh be somebody that they're not and uh that I think that was the difficult part what I know now is I should have set my wallet on the table because that's all it was was about money from I'd like to find out that if Waxman had a referral fee from Mitchell I think Mitchell got paid before before my name got put in there I think uh I think he got paid close to $40 million from what I understand there's more than a handful of players in that report that was not true about them but their guy said don't fight it so of course I thought about that too heck with him I don't I care less he they can say whatever they want it was nothing short than a Jerry Springer Show I mean it was I I was on guard at Congress because they were going to try and throw trick questions at me uh I was trying to listen to every question I possibly can I did everything they asked me to do and uh on some on some fronts it still wasn't good enough now you're in a criminal trial with your attorney Rusty Harden you're fighting lying charges perjury charges uh and that could end up in jail time yeah and and you were facing if the judgment is against you jail time the first trial ends up in a mistrial the second one AC quitt um which was a show in itself I mean I think once you found out all the people on their side that we proved that were lying and then they they knew they were in trouble and they basically forced a mistrial you would think that that would have been the end of it what about the Andy Pedic quote about him saying that you told him you had take in that's right and Andy got up there and and and and cleared that right up he said and and of course I got braided about that said I believe Andy misremembered and they acted like I guess that was never in the dictionary they they took them and ran with that so but it's it's uh we know we've closed the chapter on that I don't I don't I don't worry about that but here's the here's the problem with regard to the Hall of Fame and when they started asking you I know you got hot about it you said you know they can kiss my ass pretty much um but if you believe it was a Witch Hunt if you believe this was you know whatever it was significant influential people in the game writers people who determine who are going into the Hall of Fame don't believe you therefore you're not in the Hall of Fame does that bother you I can't control one bit I have zero control over that Joe um the the press conference you're talking about I was going in to answer some pointed questions and it went right to the Hall of Fame and that's why it turned sour for me uh I didn't play the I didn't play the game of baseball to make the Hall of Fame the Hall of Fame is not going to Define my career so I love it that the guys go in and they're part of their fraternity and whatever but it's not I played the game that's what I did it's not who I am that guy out there that's that was my job I worked extremely hard I took I took pride in it I did it the right way I respected it and and to make the conversation more not about you but about the Hall of Fame in general there's a very arbitrary process now that's going on because there are people who have used peeds who are GNA get into the Hall of Fame I mean let's be honest it's it's got to happen just by sh so so by you saying that you don't think there's anyone in there right now that has no I personally do and and and so my point is and I'm not sure if you're aware of this your percentage has grown over the last three years you're up you're under 50% but it's gone up every year the last three years it seems like people fans maybe eventually writers are going to have to look at this era in a different light now taking you out of it it does seem like there are there have to be some that are already in that have used steroids and there will will be some that go in in the future if you're going to be arbitrary with the selection process either let them all in or lock the doors and don't let anybody in for the rest of time you agree with that or not well I I I agree I think if you're a Hall of Famer you going in the first ballot and it's all good I mean you're either a Hall of Famer or you're not you're not winning any more games next year whatever you're that's right you're not going to win any games you're not hit any more home runs but like I said I'm to the point right now where I mean I say it but I I probably don't mean it but I I wouldn't even if it if it happened the joy of it's gone don't say you don't want to go in don't I I'm not going to say that but I'm just going to tell you the the luster will I'm not I'm worried about it but the luster would you I mean the luster would not be the same it's like like you're doing me a favor all of a sudden

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Length: 6min 17sec (377 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 08 2024