Three faces of angry

What a gorgeous photo atop The New York Times's report on the Clemens testimony before Congress yesterday. The night's sports talk radio was hot with the response of fans as to the treatment one of the greatest of all time received as well as the treatment one of the greatest of all time has given to the game he supposedly loved. WFAN provided a great service to us all last night bringing in an experienced lawyer to go through the testimony to point out the inconsistencies and absurdities. He did not directly comment on the choice of that baby blue tie. Deadspin, as usual, has the best coverage on your internets:

Who knows what one can take from the ridiculousness on display in the Clemens testimony today? As we suspected, no one comes out looking good, and we didn't really learn anything either. One guy's lying, one guy isn't, we have a pretty solid idea which is which, and it ultimately doesn't really matter. Roger Clemens' name is going to be connected to steroids forever; it'll be the reason he might not make it to the Hall of Fame (though we bet he sneaks in), and it will certainly be in his obituary. That was the case before today, and it's the case now.

It is pretty clear now that baseball in the 1990s and early 2000's was pretty much the East German swim team of the 1970s as far as pill popping or needle jabbing goes. Does anyone really think otherwise now? But does it matter? I suspect many more did it then but also that they did it across the board somewhat leveling the field at the time. I figure that less is done now, maybe a little less than, say, is done in the NFL with far less consequence.

But what is important is what is noted by The Time:

Jeff Novitzky, the I.R.S. special agent who has investigated steroid cases against prominent athletes, including Barry Bonds and Marion Jones, sat with two other federal agents in the second row, behind chairs reserved for Mr. McNamee’s friends. He will presumably be involved in any Justice Department investigation of the matter.

As business learned from Enron, as celebrity learned from Martha, as Mario Jones has taught amateur sport, you go to jail for lying under oath in the legal process. It is a crime called perjury and it is a real crime. So will Roger go to jail? Will he have a cell mate?