Lawyers for personal trainer Brian McNamee say they turned over physical evidence to federal prosecutors which would prove that Roger Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs. Reportedly this evidence includes syringes used to inject Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone in 2000 and 2001.
Clemens gave a sworn deposition Tuesday to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He said that in his deposition he denied using any performance-enchancing drugs. McNamee is scheduled to give a deposition on Thursday. The public hearing is set for February 13.
A Clemens lawyer, Lanny Breuer, issued a statment saying that McNamee “apparently has manufactured evidence” and called all the allegations “desperate smears,” adding, “Who in their right mind does such a thing?” Apparently Breuer has never heard of Monica Lewinsky and her infamous blue dress.
Clemens had better hope that this evidence is manufactured, or else there’s now proof that he lied under oath to Congress. – Joe Guckin
on Feb 7th, 2008 at 10:59 AM
If he did indeed lie, he’ll be going to prison for a while, I imagine. I mean, Marion Jones can’t be the only one to pay for her steroid use. Hmmm….I wonder, will Clemens still be a pitcher in the joint?
on Feb 7th, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Syringes from 2000 and 2001? You’ve got to be kidding. We’ve tipped way over into bizarre land now. Perhaps they can just examine the sewers from those years around Clemens’s house and take some samples for testing. What a joke, what a travesty…just throw the trainer into traffic, what a f*ckwad.
on Feb 8th, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Disclaimer: I believe Clemens is guilty. Now with that being said:
Let’s play devil’s advocate. The defense might argue the following: Clemens all along says he was injected with lidocane or B12. Is it be possible that even if the needle shows Clemens’ DNA on it, who is to say that Steroids or HGH was put into the syringe after the fact to implicate Clemens and save McNamee?
on Feb 8th, 2008 at 2:17 PM
So what if the steroid evidence IS real? That still doesn’t mean Clemens had any intent to use the substances. For all we know at the moment, he really DID have a reasonable belief that he was being injected with lidocaine or B12 instead of HGH — if that’s the case, we could hardly hold him responsible for the duplicity of his trainer…
on Feb 8th, 2008 at 9:10 PM
So how naive do people believe Clemens is? Would any of us let someone other than a registered health profesional “inject” anything into us? I could understand if Clemens denied ever having anything injected into him by this guy. But hasn’t he already admitted that? If the stuff was legal why not get it from a legal source, and done by legal and competent person? It all seems pretty incriminating unless he says something like “I’ve never had injection-relations” with that syringe. If he is guilty I have more pity for the young kids who believe in and defend him. They are scared for life. And most of them will not have millions of dollars to console them. But then what do I know? I don’t even watch baseball now.