Just a reminder, the jury found Clemens not guilty.

Once again, Mike Lupica confuses the court of public opinion with the court of American law:

"Now, despite detailed patient files and payment records and even handwritten notes linking Rodriguez to this 'biochemist' Anthony Bosch, about whom you first learned in the Daily News on Saturday morning, Rodriguez clearly intends to make this his word against Bosch’s, even if Bosch eventually flips on him the way Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens’ former trainer, flipped on Clemens.

You know why McNamee did that, by the way? Not because he was a rat and snitch, but because when he talked to George Mitchell’s investigators for the Mitchell Report, the feds were in the room. And McNamee had been made well aware that you have two choices with the feds in the room: You tell the truth, or you don’t tell anything at all.

All this time later there is this idea that the government should somehow just look the other way on drug cheats in sports because they couldn’t pin the perjury rap on Clemens that Clemens deserved. But the feds cannot allow Rodriguez to make this just his word against Bosch’s, make this a wretched war fought in A-Rod’s behalf by handlers and crisis managers and spin doctors.

If baseball is going to continue to clean up its sport, something it has done mightily over the last decade, the government has to continue to go after Bosch and his clinic and his 'patients.' The government has subpoena power. Major League Baseball certainly does not."

"Major League Baseball does not have supboena power," he says. 

"Subpoena" sounds like a mighty big word for a guy like him.  

It sounds like a child writing a 3rd-grade paper about the US judicial system, throwing in a few unfamiliar words to sound smart. 


It wouldn't shock me if ARod is so arrogant and idiotic, that he continued taking PEDs after he was caught and after his reputation was shredded.  It also wouldn't shock me if the case goes nowhere -- it's nothing more than a leak at this point.

Lupica doesn't know yet, nobody does.


But Lupica is actually defending the success of the feds who went after Bonds and Clemens.  The feds wasted a lot of money and got nothing from Bonds and Clemens.  Lupica is insistent that we spend more time and money going after ARod (and, who knows, maybe even Gio Gonzalez?  Gio Gonzalez, anybody?).

Lupica continues to instant that baseball players can't beat the scary feds.  Clemens and Bonds already did.