Breaking News: Pettitte's affidavit supports McNamee's version of events

[Eric the Red]

Pettitte's affidavit supports McNamee's version of events

 

Andy Pettitte's affidavit helps to support Brian McNamee's version of events that the former trainer gave Roger Clemens steroids and HGH, Rep. Tom Davis told Newsday.

 

Although Pettitte won't testify at Wednesday's hearings, the left-hander's affidavit will be presented to Clemens at the hearing and will be part of the public record, the newspaper reported.

 

Davis, R-Va., told Newsday that Clemens says in his affidavit that both Pettitte and McNamee are mistaken in their statements.

 

Newsday, citing confidential sources, reported that during a workout in 2002, Pettitte asked McNamee: "How come you don't give me the stuff you give Roger?" McNamee reportedly replied "Because it's illegal."

 

Clemens, however, says in his affidavit that Pettitte was mistaken in thinking that the conversation was about steroids or HGH, Newsday reported.

 

Davis told Newsday that Clemens does not attack Pettitte in his affidavit.

 

McNamee has accused Pettitte of using human growth hormone -- something Pettitte acknowledged he did do for two days in 2002 to deal with an elbow injury. Before Pettitte spoke to committee lawyers under oath last week, Earl Ward, an attorney for McNamee, said he thought Pettitte would tell the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform he discussed HGH with Clemens between the 2001 and 2002 seasons.

 

Clemens has vehemently denied ever using performance enhancing drugs.

 

Rusty Hardin, who is Clemens' attorney, told ESPN's T.J. Quinn that it was "completely understandable" that Pettitte wouldn't want to appear before a hearing. "Who would?" he said.

 

Asked whether Pettitte's desire to skip the hearing was a sign that his testimony was incriminating to Clemens, Hardin said, "it would be a huge mistake to assume that."

 

Hardin said Clemens "has always welcomed Andy's participation" and that he plans "to testify fully and truthfully as he always has."

 

Wednesday's session, which will focus on allegations made in the Mitchell report by McNamee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with performance enhancers, had been expected to include five witnesses testifying -- Clemens, Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch, McNamee and Kirk Radomski.

 

The only people now scheduled to testify on Wednesday are Clemens, McNamee and Charlie Scheeler of former Senate majority leader George Mitchell's staff.

 

Sources told Quinn that Pettitte was not a good witness when he appeared before congressional lawyers during a sworn deposition on Monday. Pettitte often contradicted himself, the sources said, so the committee agreed to his request not to appear before the committee.

 

Lawyers familiar with the hearings would not say if Pettitte implicated Clemens as a steroids user in his testimony. However, they said that Pettitte's testimony didn't fully jibe with Clemens' versions of events.

 

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Hmmm...think this will hurt their friendship?

[BIGREDIOWAN]

Hmmm...think this will hurt their friendship?

I'm going to guess and say YES!!!!

[Eric the Red]

Hmmm...think this will hurt their friendship?

 

 

I think Roger is in trouble

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Hmmm...think this will hurt their friendship?

 

 

I think Roger is in trouble

He's about as arogant as Denny McLain. Now they'll have something else in common.

[T_O_Bull]

Davis now says he was mis-quoted.

[admo]

Roger Clemmens is a big fat head liar. Good pitcher though.

 

HGH & roids seem to help these professional athlete's recover faster and play longer. Baseball is a long season. Fast starts up until the all-star break and then the long season catches up to them, they get tired, body breaks down, fatique, and statistics drop. I believe HGH and roids help the athlete continue to play at high levels all year b/c of the recovery process for which it provides for them and witchcraft and demonic powers to..... wait.. is anyone reading this? It's late. oh well.

 

Roger = Guilty. Pettite = honest.

 

BTW..Cheating is not the correct term. I wish media and fans would back off of that term for taking illegal substance. Why not just call it illegal instead of cheating?

[Eric the Red]

Hmmm...think this will hurt their friendship?

 

 

I think Roger is in trouble

 

 

I still think he's in trouble.

[NUpolo8]

Wow, this is going to be one pretty spectacular fall for the "best pitcher of our time" I think now its safe to assume that honor goes to Maddux, he did it cleanly