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Roger Clemens will soon know if the ten-month-old defamation lawsuit that threw his personal life into turmoil will proceed to its potentially explosive next phase. U.S. District Court judge Keith Ellison has scheduled a hearing on the defamation case Clemens filed in January against his trainer Brian McNamee, who accused the pitcher of using performance-enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report. Lawyers for both sides will be in Ellison's courtroom in Houston on Monday morning - the first movement in the case since mid-summer, when McNamee attorney Richard Emery filed a motion to dismiss the case - for oral arguments. If Ellison allows the case to proceed, it will soon move into the discovery phase, where subpoenas for deposition are likely to fly fast and furious, possibly leading to ever more unseemly revelations about Clemens' private life.

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November 1, 2008  08:44 AM ET

Go away Clemens

November 1, 2008  09:09 AM ET

For his own good, he should go away. For our enjoyment he should fight this thing out.

November 1, 2008  09:42 AM ET

Who cares?

November 1, 2008  10:01 AM ET

Either he is the most stubborn guy in the world or he has the dumbest team of lawyers in the world. There is no way he can win this case. And I hope when the judge rules against him he orders Clemens to pay MacNamee's legal fees.

November 1, 2008  10:52 AM ET

Clemes is such an idiot. The whole family is a bunch of un ethical people from the sewere gutter of the roadways of poolutant slime.

November 1, 2008  10:54 AM ET

He ain't that good and he never was....he had good players on the teams he played on. He is so full of dooooky that it is coming out of his mouth. That lil blonde country bumpkin. She be like pum pkin pir for me - too. She is so hottt.

November 1, 2008  10:58 AM ET
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He ain't that good and he never was....he had good players on the teams he played on. He is so full of dooooky that it is coming out of his mouth. That lil blonde country bumpkin. She be like pum pkin pir for me - too. She is so hottt.

Bond? what is wrong with you?

November 1, 2008  11:41 AM ET
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Bond? what is wrong with you?

Bond must be one of those guys who drink from the curb after Grossout bleaches his arse hair in the driveway.

November 1, 2008  12:25 PM ET
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Either he is the most stubborn guy in the world or he has the dumbest team of lawyers in the world. There is no way he can win this case. And I hope when the judge rules against him he orders Clemens to pay MacNamee's legal fees.

Agreed.

November 1, 2008  01:24 PM ET

Ruck Foger.

November 1, 2008  01:32 PM ET

LAWYERS ARE NOT DUMB ... THEY KNOW A GOOD MEAL TICKET AS WELL AS HOMELESS PERSON IN THANKSGIVING FOOD LINE .....

Take the wanker for all he's got

.... but wait please oh please don't put his needled holed butt in jail for 1 second ...He did not do any dog fighting

November 1, 2008  01:32 PM ET

There should be a special prison for sports guys who have it all, then defecate all over their sport and society.

"D" Block would include Clemens, O.J., Vick, Rose, Pacman, Canseco and Bonds.

Instead of making license plates, they should have to build Little League fields in the inner cities and Appalachia. Try living on mac & cheese and Kool Aid. Wear discards from the Salvation Army. Have no health insurance.

Make Jim Brown the warden...

November 1, 2008  02:55 PM ET
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Ruck Foger.

Cuck Flemens?

November 1, 2008  02:58 PM ET
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There should be a special prison for sports guys who have it all, then defecate all over their sport and society."D" Block would include Clemens, O.J., Vick, Rose, Pacman, Canseco and Bonds.Instead of making license plates, they should have to build Little League fields in the inner cities and Appalachia. Try living on mac & cheese and Kool Aid. Wear discards from the Salvation Army. Have no health insurance.Make Jim Brown the warden...

this idea has merit... maybe needs a little tweaking but lots of merit.

November 1, 2008  02:59 PM ET
QUOTE(#12):

There should be a special prison for sports guys who have it all, then defecate all over their sport and society."D" Block would include Clemens, O.J., Vick, Rose, Pacman, Canseco and Bonds.Instead of making license plates, they should have to build Little League fields in the inner cities and Appalachia. Try living on mac & cheese and Kool Aid. Wear discards from the Salvation Army. Have no health insurance.Make Jim Brown the warden...

Pete Rose? Seriously? You lump him with those who took enhancing drugs and were criminal malcontents in public? As for the rest of your rant, well sure club fed 'em and have sporting contests. Of course the Aryan brotherhood will shank Vick after he lights up their team, but it'll be an ironic justice served.

November 1, 2008  03:00 PM ET

What up Joe?

November 1, 2008  03:38 PM ET

Clemens isn't too bright. The Mitchell report didn't just take one guys word for it. They talked to others and even the supplier. Plus didn't his "best" friend Petitte confirm he did steroids with him. I think there is too much evidence. It's always hard to prove you didn't do something. He must be "misremembering" the talk he had with Congress.

November 1, 2008  03:50 PM ET

Wasting Taxpayers money worry about if Clemens had taken Steroids or should I say lied to the FED's(CONGRESS)...PLEASE president BUSH is the BIGGEST LIER ON EARTH with the MASS DESTRUCTION Lie and the ANTHRAX lie to cause the IRAQI WAR shouldn't he be in JAIL before Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens

November 1, 2008  03:54 PM ET

IF they Cheated than the COMMISIONER of baseball or other SPORTS should take away all of tTHEIR achievements or endorsements the Goverment (FED's or CONGRESS) shouldn't be worrying ABOUT who had taken STEROIDS or NOT

 
November 1, 2008  04:52 PM ET
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