Roger Clemens is lying.

The Allegation

Clemens's close friend and teammate Andy Pettitte testified in a deposition that Roger Clemens told him in 1999 or 2000 that he had used human growth hormone.

During the congressional hearing, Clemens agreed with the statement that Pettitte is "one of the most respected players in the major leagues and one of the most honest people in baseball." As ESPN's Jayson Stark put it, "It may be tough to fully believe anyone else. But it's easy to believe a guy like this, who had so many reasons to defend and corroborate his longtime friend and hero -- but didn't."

The Rocket's Response

"I think he misremembers."

Clemens claimed that the conversation that Pettitte had "misheard" and "misremembered" had actually been about someone on a TV show who had used HGH to improve his quality of life. So we are supposed to believe that Andy Pettitte, widely regarded as an honest, upstanding friend and player, is so forgetful and easily confused that he recounted, under oath, with "no doubt," a conversation about some random HGH-using stranger as his longtime friend's admission of HGH use.

The Allegation

On Friday before the congressional hearing, officials asked Clemens's attorneys for contact information for a nanny who had worked for him in 1998, at a time when Clemens's attendance at a party at Jose Canseco's house was in dispute. The Clemens camp didn't respond with the contact info until Monday, the day after Clemens had the nanny, whom he hadn't spoken to in years, visit him at his home. While at his house, the nanny told Clemens that she didn't remember the party, and he responded, "You know, the reason you don't remember that party is because I wasn't there."

The Rocket's Response

When the congressional committee asked why he met with the nanny before providing her name to the committee, his response was "I was trying to do y'all a favor," as his lawyer jumped from his seat behind him shouting, "It was my idea!"

Clemens was interviewed by his friend Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, and they discussed the possibility of taking a lie detector test. Or at least I think that's what they're doing.

Clemens: Some say they're good. Some say they're not. Do whatever.
Wallace: So as far as you're concerned, you would conceivably?
Clemens: Yeah. I don't know if they're good or bad.
Wallace: Were you to pass a lie detector test, would that help prove that you're telling the truth and help restore?
Clemens: Would it?
Wallace: I don't know.
Clemens: I don't either.

Source: CBS.com