Roger Clemens has declared that he is not guilty of using steroids or HGH ever. He said that he will fight these charges. I don’t know if he is guilty or not, but there seems to be a lot of circumstantial evidence that is against him. If convicted on all charges, Clemens could face up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines, though under U.S. sentencing guidelines he would probably face no more than 15 to 21 months in prison.
Pete Rose, who spent time in jail for lying to a grand jury, has watched the Clemens case from afar and says if Clemens is indeed lying, his advice to him would be simple: "I wish I had come clean the day they called me into the [commissioner's] office in 1989 – I do," Rose says. "Because I would have saved myself a lot of grief; a lot of everything. Money, you name it. The thing that was so hard for me is I had a lot of respect for the game, and I was respected for that while I was in the game. And I miss that, you know? But I messed up, I messed up!"
Proverbs tell us, “A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance.” Proverbs 28:13 (LB)
It always pays to be upfront and honest rather than to try to hide and conceal. Is there anything you are hiding?
