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Tomorrow baseball will once again dominate the sports landscape and it won’t be good. There is not a good ending to any of these events.

Clemens - who got top-billing in the Mitchell Report - will go to Congress and say that his reputation and integrity is higher than that of Brian McNamee and Senator Mitchell. One shouldn’t be a problem, the latter may as well be Everest.

I can’t see how Clemens is going to win…even if he wins. The deck is stacked against him. First, he’s had 5 years to come clean and talk with Mitchell but he didn’t. Second, Brian McNamee has EVERYTHING to lose if he is lying. Third, Clemens behavior of late is one of a lobbyist, not of innocent victim of slander that he wants us all to believe.

On top of this, MLB seems to be the only organization that doesn’t know how deep of weeds it is in.

If Clemens is innocent and he never did HGH or steriods, then the Mitchell Report is a joke and MLB is in an even deeper hole than what it was because the independent research council failed. If he’s innocent then Selig and the player’s association will be shown for the self-serving leadership that it really is.

If he’s not innocent, besides the fact that he’s going to jail, won’t get in the Hall, and will join the likes of Pete Rose in infamy - MLB will show that it is about as legit as professional wrestling. Protecting its stars and the integrity of the game for the sake of the almighty dollar.

All of this dominating the news when they should be talking about pitchers and catchers reporting.