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Thursday, February 14, 2008

N.Y. Times: Cone Denies Telling McNamee Owners Opposed Testing (RR)

“We have lie after lie after lie…...................................................................................................

Cone was not sure why he was cited and was still searching for the specifics during a telephone interview about four hours later. Representative Mark E. Souder, a Republican from Indiana, had asked McNamee about the part of his deposition in which he referred to Cone and drug testing.

McNamee said he had saved some of Clemens’s syringes and gauze in part because of a conversation he had with Cone. McNamee said that Cone had spoken to him on a Yankees team flight in 2000 and told him that baseball’s owners were not in favor of drug testing, but that they needed a valid excuse to provide to the news media when reporters asked about it.

“In no way, shape or form did I say anything like that to anyone, much less Brian McNamee,” Cone said. “I don’t recall a conversation like that.”

Repoz Posted: February 14, 2008 at 06:42 AM | 5 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Charter Member of the Jesus Melendez Fanclub Posted: February 14, 2008 at 07:19 AM (#2690807)
I don't recall it either. But as I am not one of the parties, I should not be expected to. I'm just a poor animal, trapped in your hot car.
   2. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: February 14, 2008 at 07:26 AM (#2690811)
But as I am not one of the parties, I should not be expected to.

One of the parties? There was NO party. A nanny in a speckled fern green cotton print bathing suit with a Point de Gaze fringe around the tapered waist told me so.
   3. Rich Posted: February 14, 2008 at 08:15 AM (#2690822)
I'm thisclose to becoming PED'd out.
   4. bardos Posted: February 14, 2008 at 08:38 AM (#2690826)
i don't recall... is a euphemism for i'd like to deny it, but that would be an outright lie if i'm caught out, so i'll say that i don't recall the conversation. hoping maybe it'll all go away. cone is lying.
   5. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: February 14, 2008 at 09:35 AM (#2690832)
cone is lying.

Hear! Hear! But unless Brian McNamee immediately files suit against David Cone, he will be corroborating Cone's statement in the court of public opinion.

In fact, McNamee's silence on the Cone matter speaks volumes. And don't say McNamee hasn't heard Cone's now-authenticated denial yet. Could YOU sleep while your reputation as a drug-dealing perjurer was being besmirched?

The fact that both McNamee and Cone are accused rapists seals McNamee's guilt, just as Kirk Radomski's support for McNamee proved his innocence. It is what it is.

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