Clemens circus continues

So now former Red Sox pitcher and once-a-shoe-in-for-the-Baseball-Hall-of-Fame-but-now-maybe-not Roger Clemens is firing back with both guns about these allegations of steroid use made by his former trainer to the Mitchell Commission.

To catch up on the latest, check this out on ESPN.com.

Clemens agreed, as well as his former trainer, Brian McNamee, to appear before Congress to testify under oath about the issue. Now, as y'all probably know, this is serious stuff because if you lie under oath in front of Congress and are caught, it's a federal offense and you go to jail ... no questions asked. So both of these guys, who have completely opposite stories, have said they're going to testify, which means one of them will be lying.

Now, Clemens has said he’s not going to take the Fifth Amendment, but we’ll see. Is McNamee going to take the Fifth, then, or is he going to lie? If he takes the Fifth, does that mean he's backing down from the information he gave to the Mitchell Commission?

What a mess.

And Clemens isn't helping his cause by appearing in interviews and press conferences, IMO. As a friend said to me last night, "Me doth think Roger protest too much." I agree.

The saddest part of all this, though, is that if this steroid stuff isn’t true, it’ll always hang over Clemens because, if nothing else, he’s right when he says that too often it’s “guilty until proven innocent” in this country.

Gonna be a fun time on Capital Hill ... wonder is Mark McGuire is around to give an tips.