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Common Side Effects...
...of steroid abuse include faulty memory and angry bravado.
I don't think this exercise in blame is pointless, King, because if like Marion Jones before him, Clemens succeeds in charting a course for prison for himself, we might see greater transparency by the athletes in future. And that's where the rubber meets the road.
It is of course a Shakespearean tragedy, but somehow I'm less sympathetic to Clemens than I was to Jones. Why is that? She was far more egregious. Is it because Clemens's use was more gratuitous? He was already a HOF pitcher BEFORE he started using, while Jones was already neck-deep before her first Olympics, and there was no one in her professional or personal life to whom she could have turned to bail herself out.