Roger Clemens’ ex-trainer Brian McNamee describes injecting steroids into Cy Young winner at perjury triaIt was a booty call Brian McNamee will never forget.

In the summer of 1998, McNamee was the strength and conditioning coach for the Toronto Blue Jays, working with the team’s star pitcher, Roger Clemens. One day, McNamee says, Clemens approached him for help administering an intramuscular injection in his buttocks. The substance was Winstrol V, a powerful anabolic steroid.

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In other words, be prepared for an entertaining show. In many ways, Bonds’ legal guilt or innocence is secondary. Even if he is convicted — and it’s going to be a tough case for the government to make — most legal experts figure he won’t do any jail time. Plus, most people already have decided for themselves whether Bonds is guilty.

He has already admitted using the “cream” and the “clear.” The government’s perjury case centers around whether Bonds was telling the truth when he answered a question about whether he had ever taken performance-enhancing drugs in this carefully nuanced way: “Not to my knowledge.”

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