Spring Favor

Roger Clemens says that he was doing Congress a "favor" when he met with the Clemens family's former nanny regarding whether she remembered Roger attending a party at the Canseco house. NYT:

Committee investigators asked Mr. Clemens’s lawyers for the nanny’s name on Friday but were not given her name until Monday, Mr. Waxman said.

Meanwhile, Mr. Clemens or his lawyers found the nanny over the weekend and Mr. Clemens invited her to his Houston home, Mr. Waxman said. They had not seen each other in seven years.

When the nanny gave a statement to the committee this week, she said she had told Mr. Clemens that she remembered his being at Mr. Canseco’s house at about the time of the party, and Mr. Clemens told her that he was not there.

“Mr. Chairman, I was doing y’all a favor,” Mr. Clemens said about talking with the former nanny on Sunday. “And as far as I was concerned, I hadn’t seen this lady in a long time, she’s a sweet lady, and I wanted to get her to you.”

How helpful!

Baseball may be doing its fans a favor today and tomorrow, by thankfully distracting us from the tawdry mess of witness tampering and obstruction: Pitchers and catchers report.

In Florida and Arizona, Spring has sprung. And none too soon.