Voss added: "Unfortunately, The Times' article still has legs," a reference to its mention in last week's 409-page report by former Sen. George Mitchell on performance-enhancing drug use in Major League Baseball. The report named Clemens, Pettitte, Tejada, Roberts, Gibbons and Segui as performance-enhancing drug users and McNamee as a supplier of steroids and HGH.
The affidavit was written in May 2006 by Internal Revenue Service Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, who had interviewed Grimsley to support a search of his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. In the affidavit, Grimsley additionally accused former Baltimore Orioles teammate Rafael Palmeiro of taking amphetamines and said outfielder Pete Incaviglia "always had a supply."
Another section of the affidavit includes Grimsley's description of a conversation with former Orioles teammates Palmeiro, Tejada and Sammy Sosa about how they were going to play when Major League Baseball's ban on amphetamines took effect with testing.
According to the affidavit, Grimsley also said that McNamee, a former Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees strength coach who served as Clemens' personal trainer until this year, once referred him to an amphetamine source.
According to the Mitchell Report, McNamee told investigators that he injected Clemens with steroids and HGH, and Tejada's former teammate, Adam Piatt, told investigators he provided steroids to the former American League most valuable player.
Clemens this week denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs.
"When this grossly inaccurate story broke in October 2006, Roger said it was untrue and the Los Angeles Times chose not to believe him. As the record now clearly proves, Roger was telling the truth then, just as he continues to tell the truth today," Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said in a statement Thursday. "Roger Clemens did not take steroids, and anybody who says he did had better start looking for a hell of a good lawyer."
Clemens' agent, Randy Hendricks, told the Associated Press when The Times' story ran in 2006 that the pitcher had "complied with all the rules and regulations."
Sosa, Incaviglia, Berroa and Watson were not included in the Mitchell Report.
According to the report, McNamee bought performance-enhancing substances from former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski. Radomski admitted to Mitchell that he had supplied the drugs to many players.
Another affidavit by Novitzky, in a case against Radomski in New York, was ordered unsealed Thursday. But Hearst Corp., which led a media coalition including The Times that requested an unredacted copy of the affidavit, had not received a copy as of Thursday night.
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