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***Lmo*** · 02-06-2008, 04:21 PM

I could take or leave Roger Clemens, but what kind of a sneaky little f@wk saves syringes, gauze pads and vials from the 2000 and 2001???

In light of the other day's deposition, this could be bad news for the Rocket.

NEW YORK - Brian McNamee has turned over physical evidence that Roger Clemens’ former trainer believes will show the seven-time Cy Young Award winner used performance-enhancing drugs, McNamee’s attorneys told The New York Daily News.

In the report, an anonymous source close to McNamee said the former trainer gave the Justice Department’s BALCO investigators vials with traces of steroids and growth hormone, as well as bloodstained syringes and gauze pads.

McNamee’s attorneys told the newspaper he has turned over the evidence to federal investigators but did not provide details of the evidence.

“This is evidence the government has that we believe will corroborate Brian in every significant way,” one of McNamee’s lawyers, Earl Ward, said in an article posted on the newspaper’s Web site Tuesday.

McNamee told former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs at least 16 times in 1998, 2000 and 2001. Clemens has vehemently denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs.

McNamee is scheduled to be interviewed by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform lawyers Thursday in preparation for next week’s congressional hearing following up on the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball.

The newspaper reported Justice Department officials have sent the evidence to a lab for testing. If the materials prove to contain traces of drugs and blood, prosecutors may attempt to get a court order for a DNA sample from Clemens.

“We will provide Congress with corroborative physical evidence that takes this case out of the he-said, she-said purview,” another McNamee lawyer, Richard Emery, told the Daily News. “From our point of view, this corroborates that Brian told the truth from Day One and Clemens has not.”

McNamee kept syringes, gauze pads and vials from the 2000 and 2001 seasons because he feared Clemens would deny illicit drug use if the matter was ever investigated, according to the anonymous source cited by the newspaper.

***MSYoung*** · 02-06-2008, 04:29 PM

But the drugs he alledgedly used were not illegal in baseball back then. It would be different if he used them yesterday. I wonder what the real reason is that he kept them.

***Lmo*** · 02-06-2008, 04:32 PM

Sort of makes you wonder how much of this sort of thing the guy has, from whom. Just saving it for those 'in case of ' situations?

***papa-bear*** · 02-06-2008, 04:42 PM

don't those things have expiration dates?

***MSYoung*** · 02-06-2008, 04:44 PM

Yep, doling it out in little pieces as needed. This guy is (was?) a professional trainer, I wonder how many other clients of his are wondering the same thing?

Also, it is the trainer's job to make the athlete better. I would not be the least bit surprised to find that it was the trainer that talked Clemens into taking drugs that were not illegal then telling him about all the things he will be able to do better.

***Lmo*** · 02-06-2008, 04:52 PM

Can't Clemens claim that he did not know what he was getting? We all trust medical providers to give us a flu shot when they say that's what they're giving us, but we are really just taking them at their word.

McNamee seems to have had no problem taking his pay from Clemens. I'm surprised that a man of his stature would take salary from a dirty player.

***MSYoung*** · 02-06-2008, 05:00 PM

But at the time it wasn't dirty, just another way of helping the athlete. The drugs were illegal in football but not in baseball, yet. I wonder if any athletes are using this trainer's services today?

Java_Bob · 02-06-2008, 05:04 PM

um well i think this crap had a magical appearance , because Clem has filed a law suit, what 3 or 4 weeks ago

***Lmo*** · 02-06-2008, 05:15 PM

yeah Bob, but if it's his DNA on the syringe or gauze, what then? And even if it is, can they prove that it was from giving that particular injection? Could it be from giving him a flu shot, for example? And like Marty keeps saying, that was not illegal at that time.

Oh, but that sneaky little f@wk McNamee...he's the one I keep thinking needs to get his.

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