Clemens interview quick thoughts

Just watched/listened to the Clemens interview on Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio. Time constraints between the almighty commercials kept it brief.

From my notes:

1. Why coming out now to talk about this?
   - Feels it's "piling on"
   - Traveling with wife out of country and wanted to address this before leaving
   - Too much "garbage" in the new book
   - "Completely false"
   - "Trying to move on"
   
2. McNamee claims there is drug paraphrenalia with his DNA on it
   - "Impossible because he's never given me any"
   - Never given/injected any drugs by McNamee.
   - "No HGH or steroids"
   - Given DNA to testers "willingly"
   
3. Most of his defamation lawsuit has been thrown out of court
   - Rusty Hardin still dealing with it
   - "How do you defend a negative?"
   
4. About drug use
   - Talks about his family history of heart trouble (EDIT: including his step-father, which is as irrelevant as him talking about my family history)
   - "Would be suicidal" for him to have used
   - Drugs are "horrible"
   
5. Regarding Pettitte/Knoblauch who claim/admit McNamee gave them HGH, other stuff
   - "Andy misremembers"
   - Only chatted with Pettitte a few times since, sounds cursory
   
6. On Manny
   - Don't know Manny's details
   - "We have great testing"
   - Story: One during his playing days, he was told to submit to a test. The testing people came to Clemens' house so he could show his son about being tested.
   - "Testing is working"
   
7. On ARod
   - Glad he came out
   - Wish him the best
   
8. On the HOF
   - Would love to be elected
   - Has no control over the situation
   - Stats should speak for themselves
   
9. How should the HOF voters handle those accused?
   - "Can't speak for them"
   - Should be based upon on field performance

UPDATE: Here is the interview


From FackYouk, who clearly don't buy what Clemens is dishing