NEW YORK - Judgment day arrived for baseball's steroids era, with the Mitchell report set to be released and posted on the Internet for all to see. The first name to emerge Thursday was seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens.
ESPN.com reported that Brian McNamee, a former trainer for the Yankees and Clemens, said information he gave Mitchell on supplying the pitcher with steroids is in the report. The Web site, citing an unidentified source close to the trainer, said McNamee told investigators he supplied Clemens with steroids. Randy Hendricks, Clemens' agent, did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Mitchell's report exposes a "serious drug culture within baseball, from top to bottom," fingers MVPs and All-Stars and calls for beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game, The Associated Press learned. The report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell will include names of 60 to 80 players linked to performance-enhancing substances and plenty more information that exposes "deep problems" afflicting the sport, one of two sources with knowledge of the findings told the AP. Both sources said the report would not address amphetamines. The two sources were familiar with discussions that led to the final draft but did not want to be identified because it was confidential until its scheduled release. They said the full report, which they had not read, totaled 304 pages plus exhibits. One person familiar with the final version would only speak anonymously but described it as "a very thorough treatment of the subject" and said some aspects were surprising. He said the report assigns blame to both the commissioner's office and the players' union. MLB's "not going to love it, the union's not going to love it," he said. One source said that while the report will cite problems "top to bottom," it also will expose "deep problems, the number of players, high-level MVPs and All-Stars," as well as clubhouse personnel who allowed steroids and other banned substances in clubhouses or knew about it and didn't say anything. The rest of the report, the sources said, focuses on recommendations that include enhanced year-round testing and hiring a drug-testing company that uses the highest standards of independence and transparency. Baseball's program currently is overseen by a joint management-union Health Policy Advisory Committee, with an independent administrator approved by both sides. Mitchell, a Boston Red Sox director, planned to release his report at 2 p.m. Thursday during a news conference in New York City. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was to hold his own news conference a few blocks away 2 1/2 hours later. The report comes at the end of a year when San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds broke the career home run record, only to be indicted 100 days later on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroid use. It also was expected to recommend that baseball develop a credible program to handle cases with evidence of athletes receiving or taking drugs but not testing positive for them. Just last week, Kansas City's Jose Guillen and Baltimore's Jay Gibbons were suspended for the first 15 days of next season, and media reports said they had obtained human growth hormone in 2005, after baseball banned it. Much of the first part of the report will be based on evidence obtained from former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski, and from information gleaned from the Albany district attorney's investigation into illegal drug distribution that focused on Signature Pharmacy of Orlando, Fla., the sources said. Radomski was required to cooperate with the investigation as a condition of his federal plea agreement last April. Radomski pleaded guilty to illegally distributing steroids, HGH, amphetamines and other drugs to players and is awaiting sentencing. Some professional athletes have been linked to the Signature probe, though none have been charged. On Thursday morning at Radomski's Long Island, N.Y.-based business, Pro Touch Detail Center, a man who identified himself as Radomski told The Associated Press: "I have no comment. Talk to my lawyer. This is private property. Please leave."
Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice president of labor relations, reviewed at least part of the report this week to ensure no confidential information from the drug-testing program was disclosed, a person with knowledge of the union's discussion with Mitchell said, also on condition of anonymity. Despite repeated requests by the players' association to Mitchell's law firm, the union had not been allowed to review the report, that person said. "I certainly hope after 21 months and getting zip by way of cooperation from the players' association that they'll come up with some recommendations for improvement," said World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound. "If not, it's a complete waste of time." But he said he's not sure baseball would follow any recommendations. "My guess is that the management side probably would, but the players' association will dig in and continue its steel-town union approach to life," he said. Agents have said they expect the report to be highly critical of players and the union for largely refusing to cooperate with Mitchell. Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, sent an e-mail to owners and team presidents in advance of the report with instructions how to respond to media inquiries. "We look forward to carefully reading the results of Sen. Mitchell's investigation," the recommended response said. "Protecting the integrity of our game is vital, and we intend to study his findings and recommendations, and will not comment until we have done so." Baseball did not have an agreement to ban steroids until September 2002, did not have testing with penalties until 2004 and did not ban HGH until 2005, when it also instituted a suspension for a first positive test. Mitchell was hired by Selig in March 2006 after the publication of "Game of Shadows," a book by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters about Bonds' alleged steroid use. The rise in power in the 1990s, which drew national attention when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased Roger Maris' single-season record in the Great Home Run Race of 1998, was accompanied by a rise in suspicion. Maris' record of 61 homers had stood since 1961, but McGwire hit 70 that year and Sosa had 66. During the chase, the AP reported McGwire had used androstenedione, a supplement then available over the counter that produced testosterone. A bulked-up Bonds then shattered McGwire's record by hitting 73 homers in 2001. ___ AP Sports Writers Eddie Pells in Denver and John Nadel in Los Angeles, AP Sports Columnist Jim Litke in Chicago and Associated Press Writer Frank Eltman on Long Island contributed to this report.
NEW YORK (WBZ) ― Thursday, New York television station WNBC, released an expected list of current and former major league players linked to steroids, according to George Mitchell's investigation. Among the big names on their list were Red Sox Captain, Jason Varitek, former Red Sox Roger Clemens and St. Louis Cardinals' slugger, Albert Pujols. Also named on the WNBC list were 21 current or former Red Sox players. However WNBC has since retracted the list.
Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens and Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte were both named in an earlier report Thursday that cited both pitchers as being included in the Mitchell report. ESPN.com reported Brian McNamee, a former trainer for the Yankees and Clemens, told investigators he supplied Clemens and Pettitte with steroids and that information is in the report. The Web site cited an unidentified source close to the trainer.
"We will respond after the report," said Randy Hendricks, the agent for Clemens and Pettitte.
The Los Angeles Times reported in 2006 that Clemens and Pettitte were among the players former major league pitcher Jason Grimsley accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a federal agent's affidavit. Clemens and Pettitte have denied the allegations. On Wednesday, Pettitte said "I've not heard a word from anyone" about former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's investigation.
Citing two lawyers familiar with the investigation, The New York Times reported McNamee also provided information about retired first baseman David Segui. On Monday, Segui admitted he used steroids and purchased shipments from former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski.
Mitchell's report exposes a "serious drug culture within baseball, from top to bottom," fingers MVPs and All-Stars and calls for beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game.
The report by Mitchell will include names of 60 to 80 players linked to performance-enhancing substances and plenty more information that exposes "deep problems" afflicting the sport, one of two sources with knowledge of the findings told the AP. Both sources said the report would not address amphetamines.
The two sources were familiar with discussions that led to the final draft but did not want to be identified because it was confidential until its scheduled release. They said the full report, which they had not read, totaled 304 pages plus exhibits.
One person familiar with the final version would only speak anonymously but described it as "a very thorough treatment of the subject" and said some aspects were surprising. He said the report assigns blame to both the commissioner's office and the players' union.
MLB's "not going to love it, the union's not going to love it," he said.
In an e-mail sent to agents Thursday, the union said it would get a copy of the report at 1 p.m. "based on our pledge not to disclose its contents before 2 p.m."
"We suggest that, for today at least, you decline general comment on the report and respond only on behalf of a particular player named in the report," the union told the agents.
One source said that while the report will cite problems "top to bottom," it also will expose "deep problems, the number of players, high-level MVPs and All-Stars," as well as clubhouse personnel who allowed steroids and other banned substances in clubhouses or knew about it and didn't say anything.
The rest of the report, the sources said, focuses on recommendations that include enhanced year-round testing and hiring a drug-testing company that uses the highest standards of independence and transparency. Baseball's program currently is overseen by a joint management-union Health Policy Advisory Committee, with an independent administrator approved by both sides.
Mitchell, a Boston Red Sox director, planned to release his report at 2 p.m. Thursday during a news conference in New York City. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was to hold his own news conference a few blocks away 21/2 hours later.
The report comes at the end of a year when San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds broke the career home run record, only to be indicted 100 days later on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroid use.
It also was expected to recommend that baseball develop a credible program to handle cases with evidence of athletes receiving or taking drugs but not testing positive for them.
Just last week, Kansas City's Jose Guillen and Baltimore's Jay Gibbons were suspended for the first 15 days of next season, and media reports said they had obtained human growth hormone in 2005, after baseball banned it.
Much of the first part of the report will be based on evidence obtained from Radomski, and from information gleaned from the Albany district attorney's investigation into illegal drug distribution that focused on Signature Pharmacy of Orlando, Fla., the sources said.
Radomski was required to cooperate with the investigation as a condition of his federal plea agreement last April. Radomski pleaded guilty to illegally distributing steroids, HGH, amphetamines and other drugs to players and is awaiting sentencing. Some professional athletes have been linked to the Signature probe, though none have been charged.
On Thursday morning at Radomski's Long Island, N.Y.-based business, Pro Touch Detail Center, a man who identified himself as Radomski told The Associated Press: "I have no comment. Talk to my lawyer. This is private property. Please leave."
Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice president of labor relations, reviewed at least part of the report this week to ensure no confidential information from the drug-testing program was disclosed, a person with knowledge of the union's discussion with Mitchell said, also on condition of anonymity.
Despite repeated requests by the players' association to Mitchell's law firm, the union had not been allowed to review the report, that person said.
"I certainly hope after 21 months and getting zip by way of cooperation from the players' association that they'll come up with some recommendations for improvement," said World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound. "If not, it's a complete waste of time."
But he said he's not sure baseball would follow any recommendations.
"My guess is that the management side probably would, but the players' association will dig in and continue its steel-town union approach to life," he said.
Agents have said they expect the report to be highly critical of players and the union for largely refusing to cooperate with Mitchell.
Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, sent an e-mail to owners and team presidents in advance of the report with instructions how to respond to media inquiries.
"We look forward to carefully reading the results of Sen. Mitchell's investigation," the recommended response said. "Protecting the integrity of our game is vital, and we intend to study his findings and recommendations, and will not comment until we have done so."
Baseball did not have an agreement to ban steroids until September 2002, did not have testing with penalties until 2004 and did not ban HGH until 2005, when it also instituted a suspension for a first positive test.
Mitchell was hired by Selig in March 2006 after the publication of "Game of Shadows," a book by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters about Bonds' alleged steroid use. The rise in power in the 1990s, which drew national attention when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased Roger Maris' single-season record in the Great Home Run Race of 1998, was accompanied by a rise in suspicion.
Maris' record of 61 homers had stood since 1961, but McGwire hit 70 that year and Sosa had 66. During the chase, the AP reported McGwire had used androstenedione, a supplement then available over the counter that produced testosterone.
A bulked-up Bonds then shattered McGwire's record by hitting 73 homers in 2001.
Hearing it break on the radio, it was like a who's who of MLB's best current players.
IMHO; I'd rather Tek at 75% clean than 100% but dirty. I don't want our guys winning that way.
Posted by: resqjyw0
Jason Varitek is not on the list. Eric Gagne is though.
I searched Jason, Varitek and Red Sox and nothing showed up for Jason Varitek. Found stuff on Jason Giambi and Jason Grimsley, Eric Gagne and former Red Sox players.
Roger Clemens turned out to be Exhibit A in the long-awaited Mitchell Report, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark — if not an asterisk — next to some of baseball's biggest moments.
Barry Bonds, already under indictment on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroids, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte also showed up Thursday in the game's most infamous lineup since the Black Sox scandal.
The report culminated a 20-month investigation by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, hired by commissioner Bud Selig to examine the Steroids Era. Seven MVPs showed up and in all, 80-some players were fingered, enough to put an All-Star at every position.
No one was hit harder than Clemens. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was singled out in nearly nine pages, 82 references by name. Much of the information on Clemens came from former New York Yankees major league strength and conditioning coach Brian McNamee.
"The illegal use of performance-enhancing substances poses a serious threat to the integrity of the game," the report said. "Widespread use by players of such substances unfairly disadvantages the honest athletes who refuse to use them and raises questions about the validity of baseball records." While the records will surely stand, several stars could pay the price in Cooperstown, much the way Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year merely because of steroids suspicion.
"If there are problems, I wanted them revealed," Selig said. "His report is a call to action, and I will act."
Mitchell said the problems didn't develop overnight and there was plenty of blame to go around.
"Everyone involved in baseball over the past two decades — commissioners, club officials, the players' association and players — shares to some extent the responsibility for the Steroids Era," Mitchell said. "There was a collective failure to recognize the problem as it emerged and to deal with it early on."
Mitchell recommended that the drug-testing program be made independent, that a list of the substances players test positive for be listed periodically and that the timing of testing be more unpredictable.
Only Bonds was mentioned more than Clemens, 103 times, most of it recounting previous reports.
More than a dozen Yankees, past and present, were identified. Players were linked to doping in various ways — some were identified as users, some as buyers and some by media reports and other investigations.
"According to McNamee, from the time that McNamee injected Clemens with Winstrol through the end of the 1998 season, Clemens' performance showed remarkable improvement," the report said. "During this period of improved performance, Clemens told McNamee that the steroids 'had a pretty good effect' on him."
McNamee also told investigators that "during the middle of the 2000 season, Clemens made it clear that he was ready to use steroids again. During the latter part of the regular season, McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times with testosterone from a bottle labeled either Sustanon 250 or Deca-Durabolin."
Former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski also provided information as part of his plea agreement in a federal steroids case. Jose Canseco's book "Juiced" also was cited.
Mitchell urged Selig to hold off on punishing players in the report "except in those cases where he determines that the conduct is so serious that discipline is necessary to maintain the integrity of the game." Selig said discipline will be determined in case by case basis, and actions will be taken "swiftly."
"Former commissioner Fay Vincent told me that the problem of performance-enhancing substances may be the most serious challenge that baseball has faced since the 1919 Black Sox scandal," Mitchell said in the 409-page report.
"The illegal use of anabolic steroids and similar substances, in Vincent's view, is 'cheating of the worst sort.' He believes that it is imperative for Major League Baseball to 'capture the moral high ground' on the issue and, by words and deeds, make it clear that baseball will not tolerate the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs."
Rafael Palmeiro, who tested positive for steroids, was among the former players named. So were Kevin Brown, Benito Santiago, Lenny Dykstra, Chuck Knoblauch, David Justice, Mo Vaughn and Todd Hundley.
"We identify some of the players who were caught up in this drive to gain a competitive advantage," the report said. "Other investigations will no doubt turn up more names and fill in more details, but that is unlikely to significantly alter the description of baseball's 'steroids era' as set forth in this report."
"The illegal use in baseball of these substances also victimize the majority of players who don't use them. We heard from many former players who believe it was grossly unfair that the users were gaining an advantage," Mitchell said.
The report took issue with assertions that steroids were not banned before the 2002 collective bargaining agreement. They had been covered, it said, since the 1971 drug policy prohibited using any prescription medication without a valid prescription, and were expressly included in the drug policy in 1991.
"Steroids have been listed as a prohibited substance under the Major League Baseball drug policy since then," the report said, although no player was disciplined for them until the 2002 labor agreement provided for testing.
Mitchell is a director of the Boston Red Sox, and some questioned whether that created a conflict, especially because none of their players were in the report.
"Judge me by my work," Mitchell said. "You will not find any evidence of bias, special treatment, for the Red Sox or anyone else. That had no effect on this investigation or this report, none whatsoever."
Giambi, under threat of discipline from Selig, was the only current player known to have cooperated with the Mitchell investigation. "The players' union was largely uncooperative for reasons that I thought were largely understandable," Mitchell said.
Well, Clemens let us all down anyway, but VARITEK, man, I'm glad that was cleared up, or seems cleared up. I HATE conflicting reports.
Posted by: resqjyw0
I bet someone was jeolous a player from the 2007 WS Champ team didn't make the list so they made something up going after the team captain.
Since George Mitchell is the Director of the Red Sox, everybody is questioning the integrity of the report believing there to be bias. Like I said, they're jealous that our team won the championship without any of the players on steriods...well Gagne made the report but he sucked and is gone anyway. If anything he dragged us down.
Posted by: kwflatbed
List: MLB Players In Mitchell Report
The following players were connected to steroids, either use or possession, in the report:
Chad Allen Mike Bell Gary Bennett Larry Bigbie Ricky Bones Kevin Brown Ken Caminiti Mark Carreon Jason Christiansen Howie Clark Roger Clemens Paxton Crawford Jack Cust Brendan Donnelly Chris Donnels Lenny Dykstra Matt Franco Ryan Franklin Eric Gagne Jason Grimsley Jerry Hairston Phil Hiatt Matt Herges Glenallen Hill Todd Hundley Ryan Jorgensen Wally Joyner Mike Judd David Justice Chuck Knoblauch Tim Laker Mike Lansing Paul Lo Duca Exavier "Nook" Logan Josias Manzanillo Cody McKay Kent Mercker Bart Miadich Hal Morris Daniel Naulty Denny Neagle Rafael Palmeiro Jim Parque Luis Perez Andy Pettitte Adam Piatt Todd Pratt Stephen Randolph Adam Riggs Brian Roberts F.P. Santangelo David Segui Mike Stanton Ricky Stone Miguel Tejada Derrick Turnbow Mo Vaughn Ron Villone Fernando Vina Rondell White Jeff Williams Todd Williams Kevin Young Gregg Zaun
The following players were cited under "Alleged Internet Purchases of Performance Enhancing Substances By Players in Major League Baseball" in the report:
Rick Ankiel David Bell Paul Byrd Jose Canseco Jay Gibbons Troy Glaus Jose Guillen Darren Holmes Gary Matthews Jr. John Rocker Scott Schoeneweis Ismael Valdez Matt Williams Steve Woodard
The following players were linked through BALCO in the report:
Marvin Benard Barry Bonds Bobby Estalella Jason Giambi Jeremy Giambi Benito Santiago Gary Sheffield Randy Velarde
HOUSTON -- The scheduled hearing that would have brought Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and former trainer Brian McNamee before Congress next week has been rescheduled for Feb. 13. Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Ranking Minority Member Tom Davis released the following joint statement, which was posted on the Oversight and Governement Reform Web site: "The Oversight Committee will postpone the hearing until February 13, 2008, which is after the sentencing of Kirk Radomski. The witnesses to be invited to the rescheduled hearing are Brian McNamee, Kirk Radomski, Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and Roger Clemens. "In preparation for the hearing, we will ask each witness to provide the Committee with a deposition. Postponing the hearing will provide additional time to coordinate the Committee's investigation with the Justice Department's ongoing efforts." Radomski pleaded guilty in April to federal felony charges of distributing steroids and laundering money, and he is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 8. "The Justice Department told the committee it would be helpful if we waited until after Radomski is sentenced," the committee's minority staff director, David Marin, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "This also gives us more time to delve into more recent developments, gather more information, and depose all witnesses before they testify in public." The Jan. 15 hearing involving Bud Selig, union leader Donald Fehr and former Senate majority leader George Mitchell is still in place. The three have been invited by Congress to discuss the Mitchell Report, which outlined widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs throughout baseball. In the days since Congress invited Clemens, Pettitte, Knoblauch, Radomski and McNamee to testify, Clemens has filed a defamation lawsuit against McNamee, who told Mitchell that Clemens used steroids and human growth hormone in 1998, 2000 and 2001. The lawsuit was filed just as Clemens was appearing on "60 Minutes" Sunday evening. The next day, Clemens held a news conference in Houston and played a 17-minute taped phone conversation between he and McNamee that took place last Friday. Alyson Footer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
Posted by: badge14
HOUSTON -- The Astros plan to hold their annual Nolan Ryan Elite Pitching Camp and Jeff Bagwell Elite Hitting Camp at the end of the month, but they may be without one of their coaches -- Roger Clemens. No decisions have been made yet, but the Astros are considering not including Clemens as a coach during the week-long mini-camp for the organization's top prospects. The camps will be held Jan. 28-31 at Minute Maid Park. If they exclude Clemens, it will not be because the club is presuming guilt. But after Clemens' name appeared in the Mitchell Report on Dec. 13, the Astros front office discussed that it might be better for Clemens to not participate in the camp, because of the potential distractions that could accompany the Rocket's presence at the ballpark, due to the crush of media that certainly would follow. "When the Mitchell Report came out, we talked about it," assistant general manager Ricky Bennett said. "[Club owner] Drayton [McLane] had the mindset of, 'Let's see how this thing plays out.' That was weeks ago. I don't know. My thoughts are it would be real awkward. If he does come, it'll be world news. We don't want that kind of distraction. We'll talk about it." General manager Ed Wade made it clear there have been no discussions about Clemens' participation at the camp. "It's two-plus weeks away and Ricky's been spending all of his time putting the roster and schedule together," Wade said. "There haven't been any internal discussions about Roger, and we haven't had any discussions with Roger." Clemens has participated in the camp every year, and it was understood that the Rocket would continue to do so as part of the 10-year personal services contract he signed four years ago. The contract was to go into effect when Clemens officially retired, which he has not done yet. In the Mitchell Report, Clemens was alleged to have used steroids and human growth hormone in 1998, 2000 and 2001. His former trainer, Brian McNamee, told Sen. George Mitchell he injected Clemens several times during those three seasons. Clemens has vehemently issued several denials, through written statements, a video posted on his Web site, a "60 Minutes" interview and a press conference with reporters in Houston. Clemens has also filed a defamation suit against McNamee for making "false and defamatory" claims in the Mitchell Report. Clemens' son, Koby, a prospect in the Astros' system, plans to participate in the Elite Camp. Because the Astros will limit media access to players to certain parts of each day, Bennett does not anticipate any distractions even if reporters seek out Clemens' eldest son. But the Rocket would be a different story, which may move the club to decide not to invite Clemens to serve as a coach at this year's camp. "With all the hoopla and coverage, the focus should be on our players," Bennett said. "Nolan, Bagwell, the group itself. Not the other things." Alyson Footer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
Posted by: kwflatbed
Who gives a shit
Posted by: Sniper
Douche !!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: ninety_four_c
Anyone see the testimony today? And why is congress so concerned when it should be MLB's investigation.
By Peter Gelzinis I believed Roger the Dodger Clemens yesterday about as much as I believed Billy Bulger. The only difference is when Billy stood before the same congressional committee a few years ago and raised his right hand...
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Roger Clemens' denial of steroid use warrants further investigation, Congress said Wednesday in asking the Justice Department to determine whether the star pitcher lied under oath in testimony to a House committee.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, urging more scrutiny of Clemens' statements in a Feb. 5 sworn deposition and at a Feb. 13 public hearing where he said he "never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone."
"That testimony is directly contradicted by the sworn testimony of Brian McNamee, who testified that he personally injected Mr. Clemens with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone," the congressmen wrote.
"Mr. Clemens's testimony is also contradicted by the sworn deposition testimony and affidavit submitted to the committee by Andrew Pettitte, a former teammate of Mr. Clemens, whose testimony and affidavit reported that Mr. Clemens had admitted to him in 1999 or 2000 that he had taken human growth hormone," the letter said.
Clemens declined to comment Wednesday when approached by reporters at the Houston Astros' spring training camp in Kissimmee, Fla. Pettitte, with the New York Yankees in Florida, declined comment through a team spokesman.
"Now we are done with the circus of public opinion, and we are moving to the courtroom," Clemens' lead lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "Thankfully, we are now about to enter an arena where there are rules and people can be held properly accountable for outrageous statements."
McNamee, Clemens' former personal trainer, told federal prosecutors, baseball investigator George Mitchell and Congress that he injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner at least 16 times with human growth hormone and steroids from 1998 to 2001. Clemens repeatedly and vigorously denied the allegations.
Congress turned its attention to the matter because Clemens' denials questioned the legitimacy of the Mitchell Report, prepared by the former Senate majority leader and released in December.
After both men stuck to their stories under oath, first separately in closed-door depositions and then while sitting a few feet from each other at this month's hearing, it was expected that one or the other - or perhaps both - would be referred to the Justice Department for a criminal inquiry.
Instead, only Clemens faces a possible perjury investigation, after the committee decided not to refer McNamee.
Waxman sent committee Democrats an 18-page memo prepared by his staff outlining reasons for the criminal referral. The memo summarizes "seven sets of assertions made by Mr. Clemens in his testimony that appear to be contradicted by other evidence before the committee or implausible."
Those areas involve Clemens' testimony that he has "never taken steroids or HGH," that McNamee injected him with the painkiller lidocaine, that team trainers gave him pain injections, that he received many vitamin B-12 injections, that he never discussed HGH with McNamee, that he was not at then-teammate Jose Canseco's home from June 8-10, 1998, and that he was "never told" about Mitchell's request to speak.
Davis, who was the chairman of the committee when it held its 2005 hearing with Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro, said the referral focuses on the core question of whether Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs.
"Some may want to `help' the Department of Justice by characterizing evidence or packaging apparently contradictory quotes on other questions to help make a case for perjury. I don't think that's necessary," Davis said. "The record speaks for itself, and it tells me the question of Mr. Clemens' truthfulness demands further analysis by law enforcement."
Neither Waxman nor Davis responded to interview requests.
"Roger has known since December that if he publicly took the position he has taken, this would be the result. The good news is we are now going to be on a level playing field," Hardin told the AP. "These matters are now going to be decided in court and by the ultimate lie detector - a jury. I am comfortable that when a jury hears this case ... they will conclude that Roger did not use steroids or growth hormone and he is telling the truth and that McNamee's allegations are totally false."
Clemens' prominent place in the Mitchell Report tainted the legacy of a man who ranks eighth in major league history with 354 wins.
"It's what we expected, but Brian is not joyful about this. No one is celebrating," said McNamee's lead lawyer, Earl Ward. "We think it's a sad and unfortunate situation that one of baseball's greatest pitchers now has the potential of being a defendant in a criminal case."
The Feb. 13 hearing divided along party lines, with Democrats giving Clemens a rougher time, and Republicans reserving their toughest questions for McNamee.
"Given the letter that the committee has sent out, the Republicans who attacked him owe him an apology because of the manner in which they went after him, calling him a 'drug dealer,' a `liar,"' Ward said. "The decision to send out a referral letter says quite clearly that Brian McNamee told the truth."
The committee's majority staff drew up a letter of referral to the Justice Department, then consulted with the minority side.
"We are not in a position to reach a definitive judgment as to whether Mr. Clemens lied to the committee," Waxman and Davis wrote to Mukasey. "Our only conclusion is that significant questions have been raised about Mr. Clemens's truthfulness and that further investigation by the Department of Justice is warranted. We ask that you initiate such an investigation."
Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the department "is reviewing the letter and has no further comment at this time." If an inquiry is opened, it likely would be by federal investigators in Washington.
"Roger knew all along that if he told what he knew to be the truth, he would be getting a criminal referral, yet he still chose to testify both by deposition under oath and in public under oath," Hardin said. "That should tell you something about how deeply he believes in what he is saying."
Just last month, Waxman and Davis asked for an investigation into whether 2002 American League MVP Miguel Tejada lied when he told committee investigators in 2005 that he never took performance enhancers and had no knowledge of other players using or talking about steroids. The FBI did open a preliminary inquiry into that case.
The committee pointed to evidence in the Mitchell Report that it said contradicted statements given by Tejada, now with the Astros.
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