The truth is, someone is lying!

IT WAS FAR from the Grand Inquisition. In fact, the star witness never showed up and one politician wanted to know what uniform Roger Clemens would wear into the Hall of Fame.
So much for Judgment Day in Washington, D.C. when most of the politicians wimped out and sat there star gazing at the mere presence of the aging pitcher.
And four hours later I was still waiting for some answers and what I got was this empty feeling that someone was lying. Perhaps, that was applicable to others in the packed hearing room.
In the wake of the vaunted Mitchell Report, the Washington bureaucrats wanted to dissect trainer Brian McNamee's accusations that had pinpointed Clemens among others.
Seemingly, America's national passtime was at stake.
But what began with loud declarations dissolved into a dying whimper.
While Clemens vehemently denied using these so-called 'roids of ruin,' trainer McNamee, an unsavory character to some in the room, stuck with his story that he had injected Clemens time and again.
To some politicians, the McNamee's version seemed plausible while others pushed such accusations into the corner like so much waste.
In the past few years, former superstars such as Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and even Barry Bonds have come under suspicion that their achievements were artifically induced. Only time will tell.
While McNamee was the chief accuser against Clemens in the Washington hearing room, the star witness, as we indicated at the beginning, was AWOL.
Clemens' best friend and pitching partner, Andy Pettitte, was given a pass to skip the proceedings as was another star performer, Chuck Knoblauch. Both had admitted to having been injected.
While Clemens licked his lips he tried to push his theory that Pettitte had "misspoke." He would use that phrase a number of times during the four-hour session.
Pettitte, often called a fine Christian man, had left the politicians with a deposition, which was startling in its implications about McNamee injecting him.
"One day I have to give an account to God and not to nobody else of what I've done in my life ... And that's why I've said and shared the stuff with y'all ... that I wouldn't like to share with y'all." Knoblauch was also candid about his involvement.
Since Clemens declared his friendship with Pettitte, the question remains, as others have asked, what would have happened if Andy had actually shown up at the hearing.
Prior to the talkfest on Wednesday, Clemens appeared like a roaming ambassador, checking in with the politicians and their staff; signing autographs and posing.
Meanwhile, McNamee shuffled his feet, knowing his past would catch up with him, and, to his credit he admitted he had been caught in lies on a number of occasions.
In 1994, pro wrestling and its chief promoter Vince McMahon along with his star attraction, Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea), went to court in Long Island concerning the abuse of steroids. Although McMahon was cleared of all charges, it began to open the window to a previously-closed world.
Since then other sports have revealed 'roids and HGH use has become a growing problem. Some would say even an epidemic. Not only has the tentacles reached into the pro ranks, but it has also affected the younger generation of would-be athletes.
In December 2004, U.S. President George Bush, a former part owner of Texas Rangers, was quoted as saying MLB management and the players' union should take "strong steps" against "illegal performance enhancers."
Although those "strong steps" have been more like a crawl, the long-awaited Mitchell Report gave some hope that dramatic changes would eventually be made. So, I must admit, the Washington hearings were welcome in the continuing effort to try to clean up the grotesque image surrounding pro sports these days.
While Wednesday's followup to the Mitchell Report has shown that Pettitte and Knoblauch were part of that so-called 'roids and HGH culture, others have been added to the list such as Baltimore's Brian Roberts, Dodgers' Gary Bennett, Colorado's Matt Herges and Glenallen Hill, according to the MLB website.
And the list, although slow in developing, goes on and on.
BASEBALL NAMES (From The Best Of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader): Los Angeles Dodgers: Formed in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1890. Brooklyn had hundreds of trolleys zigzagging through its streets, and pedestrians were constantly scurrying out of their way. That's why their baseball team was called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (later shortened to Dodgers). The team moved to L.A. in 1958.