The Logical Fallacies of Roger Clemens’ Lawyer
Roger Clemens’ lawyer has released a report of his own — take that Mitchell! — that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Roger Clemens couldn’t possibly have taken steroids. He did this using his baseball statistics. Because that makes sense.
Hendricks’ report, which includes 38 charts, in some ways resembles a salary arbitration case. One of the charts shows Clemens’ ERA was lower than the league average in all but two of his 23 major league seasons. The report also compares variations in Clemens’ career with those of Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling and Nolan Ryan, and maintains slumps often can be correlated with injuries.
“Of the six years that feature Clemens’ best ERA margins, two occurred in Boston, after he had been in the major leagues for several years; two occurred in his two years in Toronto; and two occurred after he switched leagues and pitched for the Houston Astros,” the report said.
Roger Clemens was remarkably dominant for an extraordinary length of time. So dominant it almost seems unnatural, as if he had to have had some sort of extra edge. And you see, because he was so very good for so very long, there is no possible way that he could have used steroids. Wait…what?
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