Just as soon as I had pondered whether or not Brian McNamee was set up to implicate Roger Clemens, I see the story that McNamee stands by his claim. McNamee apparently sat down for an interview with SI's Jon Heyman while the pair watched Clemens on 60 Minutes Sunday night. Sure enough, McNamee repeated his claim that Clemens took steroids:And Roger was in no way an abuser of steroids. He never took them through our tough winter workouts. And he never took them in spring training, when the days are longest. He took them in late July, August, and never for more than four to six weeks max ... it wasn't that frequent.'Whether or not it was part of the culture of the game, Clemens still did it according to McNamee. So despite the phone call and the comments that he would go to jail for Clemens, McNamee is still hanging Clemens out to dry by repeating his claim."Within the culture of what was going on, he was just a small part of it. A lot of guys did it. You can't take away the work Roger did. You can't take away the fact that he worked out as hard as anybody.'' When McNamee, also a former strength and conditioning coach with the Blue Jays from 1998 through 2000, is asked to estimate how many major leaguers were involved with steroids during that period, he answers without hesitation. "More than half,'' he says.
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1-07-2008 @ 10:57PM
seanswell said...
I wonder if McNamee gave Clemens steroids or HGH and at that time told him that it was vitamins or pain killers, which are allowed? If that was done by McNamee then his statement to the Senator would be accurate, but he's gonna owe Clemens way more than an apology if that's what comes out of this in court. In fact if McNamee was covering up what he was injecting and that's what happened, obviously Roger would not know that he'd had steroids or HGH, so that would explain his firm stand. So again if that's what happened then Clemens will own McNamee's hide, except that it will wind up in Prison anyway, never mind the deal he thinks he's got. Also just think about it, what good would McNamee's word be about anybody else if he's proven to be deceitful just to try to position himself better to not be blamed for illict behavior giving these injections in the first place. It is already established by McNamee's own statements that he is responsible for giving illegal, illicit substances to many players. He's the source and the source needs to be taken out of the arena...with no one providing these things, the players would be clean or they would have to be getting it on their own, if they indeed tried to get it. How could someone in the clubhouse not know it would come back on him some day?
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