The seven-time Cy Young Award, Roger Clemens contradicted the issue that his former personal trainer Brian McNamee administered him performance-enhancing drugs. He pointed out that McNamee never injected HGH or steroids on him, contrary to what the former trainer told baseball investigator George Mitchell.

Roger Clemens told the media that he would not use steroids because their family has a history on heart conditions.

From RGJ.com:

Roger Clemens broke his silence Tuesday, again denying that former personal trainer Brian McNamee injected him with performance-enhancing drugs in his first public comments in more than a year.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was interviewed by phone on ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning.” He said he chose to speak out Tuesday because it was the official release date of a book about his alleged drug use.

“He’s never injected me with HGH or steroids,” Clemens said of McNamee, who told baseball investigator George Mitchell he had injected Clemens with drugs.

“American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime,” by four New York Daily News reporters, recaps previous reports in the newspaper. It had been available to reviewers and had excerpts published before Tuesday.

Clemens said he had given a DNA sample to federal investigators but that syringes provided by McNamee would not link him to performance-enhancing drug use.

Clemens is under investigation by a federal grand jury in Washington that is trying to determine whether he lied when he told a congressional committee last year that he had not used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens had previously denied the allegations on steroids last year, and had filed a defamation charge on McNamee. He chose to speak out last Tuesday since it was the release date of a book about his alleged steroid use.

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McNamee stands by his evidence while Roger Clemens’ lawyer Rusty Hardin dismisses them saying they were just manufactured to convict his client of perjury. In January 2008 he called this evidence “a bunch of junk” that McNamee kept in his basement waiting for the right time to produce them. In another interview, Hardin said the former trainer had to make himself a believable witness he has to fabricate evidence for his testimony to stand in court.

Last week, McNamee broke his silence and responded through a website operated by his friends.

From the Daily News:

“The needles I gave the government were used to inject Clemens with steroids in either July or August of 2001,” McNamee says in an interview with Brian Kelleher. “The place was his apartment, which is located around 90th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan. It was when Clemens was pitching for the Yankees.”

McNamee went on to describe injecting Clemens in other locations, too, including Yankee Stadium. “Sometimes it was in his apartment,” McNamee went on. “Sometimes it was in the jacuzzi at Yankee Stadium. Sometimes I injected him while he was on the road. When he was playing with Toronto, he provided the drugs and I injected him when he was in Canada. One time, on the road, I was in his hotel room and he called hotel management and had them bring up a bottle of alcohol. I swabbed the injection site with it and afterwards used some more of it to clean it up.”

The steroid paraphernalia McNamee produced with through several testing phases to prove if he tampered with it. The tests came out positive with Clemens DNA on the syringe and gauze pad that wiped away his blood. In defense, Clemens said McNamee did not inject him with steroids but with Vitamin B12 and lidocaine.

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Steroid paraphernalia linking Roger Clemens to the use of performance enhancing drugs was tested positive to contain his DNA. This strengthens the testimony of Brian McNamee who was accused of injecting Clemens with PEDs and human growth hormone. Clemens did not deny that he was injected with substances but they were not steroids. He says just Vitamin B12 and lidocaine.

Clemens is accused of committing perjury for telling the Congress last year that he did not use performance enhancing drugs. McNamee says otherwise, producing evidence that would prove Clemens guilty. They included vials, syringes and gauze pads. Reports said that his DNA was found on one of the syringes and gauzes pads used to wipe his blood.

Rusty Hardin, Clemens’ lawyer, said that it was not surprising that evidence had surfaced.

From The New York Times:

“Duh,” he said with exaggeration. “Do you really think McNamee was going to fabricate this stuff and not make sure there were substances on there? The fact is Roger never used steroids or H.G.H.”

When McNamee handed over the materials to federal authorities in January 2008, he said that he had kept them in a Federal Express box in his basement since he had used them to inject Clemens in 2000 and 2001.

The tests on the materials are being conducted at the Los Angeles-area laboratory of Dr. Don Catlin. Since the government began aggressively looking into the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs in 2002, Catlin has been the lead drug-tester for federal prosecutors.

It was in 2007 in exchange for not charging him with distributing steroids, McNamee was forced to cooperate with the federal authorities with their investigation of steroid use in the Major League. He provided the information to George Mitchell, federal investigator, that 3 Yankees players – Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch – were using performance enhancing drugs.

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