McNamee Stands by Claim That Roger Clemens Used Steroids

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.'
"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.

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.