Brian McNamee ravaged more than just a date: Clemens and Pettitte too

MLB stars say thank you to your trainer Brian McNamee.  McNamee who lost many important clients when he was charged with using a date rape drug on a female conquest.

SI carried this story on the now infamous trainer.

Whoever said steroids can be harmful just might have had Brian McNamee in mind. The word "steroids" alone has done immeasurable, maybe irreparable, harm to McNamee.

If you don't recognize his name, well, that's OK. Few do. He's known mostly to baseball insiders.

McNamee is a no-nonsense, no-frills fellow who works in baseball as a trainer and who has whipped a few pitching stars into shape, including Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. He is well-known in the industry as the one who helped coax the last four Cy Young awards out of Clemens and kept Pettitte throwing when a sizable gap in his pitching elbow should have felled him by now...

In a report that "shocked" him, McNamee read an L.A. Times story on the Internet that said his name supposedly appeared in the search-warrant affidavit of IRS agent Jeff Novitzky. The affidavit, which had previously become public with the names redacted, included this passage about reliever Jason Grimsley:

"Grimsley stated that [redacted], a former employee of the [redacted] and personal fitness trainer to several Major League Baseball players, once referred him to an amphetamine source. Grimsley stated that after this referral he secured amphetamines, anabolic steroids, and human grown hormone from [redacted's] referred source.

McNamee denied use of steroids, of course:

McNamee pleads guilty to knowing the ins and out of steroids, but says, "I had no involvement as far as supplying it, getting it, telling 'em to use it. I just educate them. The good, the bad and the ugly of using the drugs. I had to educate myself because there was more and more concern in baseball. I just adjusted to the times."

"Just educate"?  Sounds like a "Bad Education"

 

Comments

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