Message #169642

[Nat of the Living Dead]

Rotoworld.com

Brian McNamee told federal authorities last summer that Roger Clemens developed an abscess on his buttocks about the same time that McNamee said he was giving him steroid injections during the 1998 season, a lawyer with knowledge of details of the case told the New York Times.

It's not a third ear coming out of his forehead, but it still could be taken as a sign of steroid use, if it were somehow proven to be true. Clemens has said that he received injections from McNamee at various times but has maintained that they contained either vitamin B12 or the painkiller lidocaine. Although any needle injection can lead to an abscess, an antidoping expert told the Times that steroid injections in particular are known for creating abscesses.