Confession time here.

When he was playing, Roger Clemens was my favourite baseball player. I loved the swagger. I loved the commitment to his craft. I loved that he still threw the ball  at 95 miles per hour , well into his forties.

But, of course, that was before I found out that Clemens' achievements from about 1997 on were assisted, in no small measure, by his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Or let's put it this way: the evidence appears to be overwhelming that The Rocket Man cheated.

I wrote about Clemens' situation last week, as he was being arraigned for lying in his testimony before Congress.

But his story truly fascinates me, and so I wanted to weigh in one more time, this time with an interview with Jeff Pearlman, author of  The Rocket That Fell to Earth.

Pearlman has written a superb account of how Clemens overcame a tragic childhood to become one of the greatest pitchers of all time, only to have his reputation now in tatters because of allegations that he used steroids and human growth hormones.

Here's my interview with Jeff Pearlman: