L’esprit d’escalier

I’m not really following this whole baseball/steroids scandal thing, other than catching it on the news as my dad drove us home in the big gorram snowstorm last night, and from boredom-induced clicking today. 

But!  The phrase below kind of jumped out at me.  Whoever can tell me what’s wrong with it first gets a prize selected from the swag at my desk.

Said Roger Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin: 

Roger Clemens adamantly, vehemently, and whatever other adjectives can be used, denies that he has ever used steroids or … improper substances.

Homophones – they sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.

• site – a place
• sight – that thing your eyes are capable of doing
• cite – to quote, or to refer to a source as proof
• smite – what I want to do when people mix those up