Hopefully he is, but honestly, if I had to put my money on it...  I'd say he probably used.  

"Earlier this month, the Twins signed two free agents from Houston: shortstop Adam Everett (one year, $2.8 million) and third baseman Mike Lamb (two years, $6.6 million)...More than anything, our manager [Ron Gardenhire] wants stability at shortstop, and Everett catches the ball as well as anybody," Smith said. "And our reports on Lamb always have been good."

The way Smith sees it, Gardenhire will have depth and options with his new infield.

"We have four players for three positions," he said. "We have two righthanded hitters [Harris, Everett], a lefty [Lamb] and a switch-hitter [Nick Punto]. I'm not worried about our infield." "

http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/12905596.html

However, if Clemens intends to rely solely on attacking McNamee's character, I don't think that alone will be sufficient to persuade most people.  I have no doubt that McNamee is a shady guy, but that won't prove innocence.  And perhaps nothing is out there to settle the dispute.  If Clemens is innocent, he doesn't have an easy task ahead of him.

Hardin might welcome a lawsuit by McNamee.  It might provide a forum to cross examine the accuser.  A lawsuit with Clemens as the plaintiff would be a worse option for him, because defamation suits are hard to win if the defamed person is a public figure.

I notice that the reader posts on the chronicle blogs are full of venom toward Clemens; people blame him for not responding quick enough, talking through his agent or lawyer, talking on a video, undergoing questioning by a "biased" Mike Wallace, etc.  What I don't see are posts by these readers asking why Miguel Tejada has yet to publicly respond in any fashion to the Mitchell Report allegations. Do these same fans give Tejada a free ride because he is now the "savior" for the 08 Astros team?  Tejada has yet to appear in Houston for an Astros press conference.  Is he waiting to figure out how he will respond to questions about the steroids allegations?  I understand that Clemens is a much bigger name, but he has been more of a lightning rod on this issue than Tejada.  

So, Clemens is taking the Lance Armstrong route, eh? Believing as I do that Armstrong was a doper, I've often wondered if his tremendous charity work might not be a tactic to mitigate the damage to his image should his past one day catch up to him. The more denials a guilty person promulgates, the worse he/she looks when the truth comes to light, Marion Jones being a great recent example.

Perhaps the Clemens Foundation should kick it into high gear.

I think it is also believable that he didn't.

There are many many thoughts on both sides of the argument that are all speculation used to cause belief. First off, he has always said he didn't do it. From what I know Roger has had many things said about his personality but little questioning his integrity. SO take his statements as you will.

Then there is his performance. He was basically the best pitcher in baseball at 3 different times in his career. Most of us know the final period when he was the best in baseball for a 3 year run with the Astros. Each time he attained greatness he fell from grace and rebuilt himself as a new pitcher. I don't know that in any one of those times you would call what he did as being unbelievable statistically.

When Roger pitched for the Astros he wasn't an undeniable force that overpowered hitters. He was much more crafty and used an unbelievable will to stop runners from scoring when he got into trouble. He never threw over 95 and mostly sat in the 90-93 range. He also didn't throw tons of pitches or innings. He was basically a 7 IP then a 6IP pitcher. Most of the time he only gave up one run buy it was still not overpowering or incomprehensible.

And finally his body never became grossly huge. Facial structure, muscle mass, and body fat were all in line of a normal super-athlete.

I don't know either way.