Clemens and Wallace

Not sure what I expected from the 60 Minutes interview. Mike Wallace was the pit bull of TV journalism, but the 60 Minutes bunch has been known to go Jell-O when jocks were their subjects. The late Ed Bradley did everything but carry T. Woods' bag. Plus, Wallace admits to being friends with Clemens, since their first interview in 2001, and Clemens hand-picked the old guy for this one.

It was OK. Wallace did get The Rocket to "swear'' he hadnt used steroids or HGH, but when he asked Clemens if he'd take a lie-detector test, Clemens hesitated.

Wallace could have asked Clemens what he got from the B-12 shots, which are intended for elderly folks with a lack of energy, not 40-year-old workout fanatics. Had Wallace done more homework, he might have known several cheaters claimed they used B-12, not steroids, including M. Tejada and R. Palmeiro. He might have noted that in bodybuilding circles, B-12 is known as a masking agent.

Wallace might have asked Clemens why in recent years he waited until after the season started to make his debut. Could it have been he was using in the offseason and might have failed a random test? Who knows? Wallace never asked the question.

Instead, he let Clemens ramble about how "pissed off'' he was because he'd been so great to McNamee the rat trainer, which is entirely irrelevant.

Clemens also said his body had always looked the way it has since 1999, which simply isn't true. A Before and After photo lineup would have been helpful. We do that w/Bonds all the time.

Clemens got off 1 especially good sound bite -- something about being able to pull a truck with his teeth -- that you had to feel had been rehearsed. You'd give him the benefit of the doubt -- as he requested early in the interview --if so many before him hadnt come off the same way -- shocked, aggrieved, defiantly denying everything. See: Palmeiro, Marion Jones, Floyd Landis, Martina Hingis, Bonds. The evidence against each was overwhelming.