Shays is just one hypocrite out of many - including former Sen. George Mitchell. Mitchell sits on the board of the Boston Red Sox front office management - so right from the start, any pretense of non-bias went out the door regarding this investigation.
Another take on this situation from EdgeOfSports.com:
http://www.edgeofsports.com/2008-01-07-308/index.html(snip)
Clemens was most effective when for a brief moment he dropped the Gary Cooper routine and said simply, "And that's our country, isn't it? Guilty before innocent. That the way our country works now." That's certainly the way it has worked for Barry Bonds over the past several years. It's hard to imagine a world where 60 Minutes would have given Bonds similar treatment and respect.
Clemens is now getting a taste - even if the blow is softened by racial double standards - of what athletes from Bonds to Martina Hingis to Randy Moss to many others have experienced in recent years: the flammable hypocrisy that torches athletse when their careers cross with drugs, whether recreational or "performance enhancing." We are now in a sports world where human beings are glorified and then destroyed for our collective amusement. When these modern gladiators take substances to extend their time in fame's embrace or find relief from the suffocating pressure of competition, they are punished. Then Congress comes running, ready to pile an extra coating of political distraction on this already noxious spectacle by trading on the pelts of athletes for cheap votes. The Clemens spectacle was yet another demonstration that we need a more sane way to deal with drugs in sports than turning it into reality TV and congressional fodder. No ifs, ands, or butts.(snip)
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