McNamee says #Clemens told him in Jan 04 he wanted to get "huge," asked if McNamee still had "his guy," meaning Radomski.

Hardin: "Mr. McNamee, do you sometimes just make stuff up?" Objection. Rephrase. McNamee: "No, I didn't make it up."

To McNamee’s knowledge, Clemens did not use human growth hormone in 2001. McNamee was not retained by the Yankees after the 2001 season. After that season, Clemens never again asked McNamee to inject him with performance enhancing substances, and McNamee had no further discussions with Clemens about such substances.

Hardin: If you told investigators didn't discuss PEDs after '01 and now say you did, were earlier statements mistake, faulty memory or lie?

Aaaaaand a second juror has been kicked out of the jury pool for falling asleep.

Seat 13: Female. Retiree. Active in effort to get voting rights for District of Columbia. Worked at U.S. Department of Transportation and Bureau of Public Debt. Said her husband told her, upon learning she might serve on this trial, "Get out of it, don't do it!" eliciting chuckle from Clemens.

Active in effort to get voting rights for District of Columbia.

I think this trial should serve as a sign of why you don't want representation in Congress.

Seizing in particular on a statement that McNamee said he never "even talked" to Clemens about steroids after 2001, Hardin got McNamee to say that he and Clemens "talked about steroids briefly" at Clemens' home in 2003. McNamee also said Clemens wanted to change his pitcher's training regimen to focus more on bodybuilding in 2004.

McNamee had not testified about those conversations previously. McNamee said: "My recollection (of some events) has improved (over the last four years)."

McNamee, who has now spent 12 hours on the stand with more to come on Thursday, alternated between fidgety and focused. At various times he looked curiously at the courtroom ceiling, draped his arm around his chair, or leaned forward to scratch an itchy foot while Hardin was asking questions. McNamee sometimes seemed perplexed by simple yes-or-no questions and stumbled through an answer about his birthday.

Other times, he was more firm and direct. He complained when Hardin asked him a convoluted, multipart question: "Which one do you want me to answer?" ''Pick one," Hardin replied.

Hardin was perhaps most effective when he got McNamee to agree that his memory about events connected to Clemens had improved once McNamee began cooperating with federal investigators looking into steroids and baseball.

"Is it true that ever since you began making these accusations about Mr. Clemens, your memory and versions of what happened and details have sort of evolved?" Hardin asked.

"Yes sir," McNamee answered.

Hardin asked if McNamee had "intentionally lied" to investigators.

"Yes sir," McNamee replied. McNamee testified earlier in the week that he originally minimized Clemens' involvement with performance-enhancing drugs in what he said was an effort to protect the pitcher.

Hardin worked the same angle when McNamee had trouble remembering what was written on the cover of a book McNamee started writing but never published.

"You remember little details all the way back to 1998 ... but you have to have me show you the cover of your book before you know what's on it," Hardin said.

Referencing the easel, Hardin would cite various statements and ask McNamee to put them in the category of "mistake," ''bad memory" or "lie." McNamee conceded to one case of a "bad memory" before court adjourned for the day at noon because of a juror's schedule conflict. McNamee returns to the stand Thursday.

McNamee says he gave Clemens injections of performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, 2000 and 2001. During questions about the 1998 injection, Hardin inadvertently introduced evidence he had sought to keep away from the jury.

McNamee testified that he overheard a conversation between teammates Clemens and Jose Canseco about steroids in the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse, a conversation the judge had ruled could not be brought up by prosecutors.

Having overheard Clemens and Canseco, McNamee said he therefore was certain Clemens was referring to steroids when Clemens later asked for a help with a "booty shot" in early June 2008. Hardin stressed that Clemens didn't use the word "steroids" and could have been referring to a shot for the vitamin B12. McNamee has said he first injected Clemens with steroids later that month.

McNamee also testified for the first time about a conversation he said he had with Clemens about steroids following Clemens' 2003 season with the New York Yankees. McNamee said that Clemens had planned to retire and "wanted to change his workout program and get bigger." McNamee said Clemens asked, "Do you still have that guy?" who can supply the drugs. Clemens eventually decided to keep playing and returned in 2004 with the Houston Astros.

Hardin was incredulous that McNamee didn't relate that conversation to federal investigators or while being interviewed for the 2007 Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

"Bad memory," McNamee said, adding that nothing ever came of the conversation.

"Yes sir," McNamee replied. McNamee testified earlier in the week that he originally minimized Clemens' involvement with performance-enhancing drugs in what he said was an effort to protect the pitcher.

"Yes sir," McNamee replied. McNamee testified earlier in the week that he originally minimized Clemens' involvement with performance-enhancing drugs in what he said was an effort to protect the pitcher.

With friends like that...

McNamee testified that he overheard a conversation between teammates Clemens and Jose Canseco about steroids in the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse, a conversation the judge had ruled could not be brought up by prosecutors.

Having overheard Clemens and Canseco, McNamee said he therefore was certain Clemens was referring to steroids when Clemens later asked for a help with a "booty shot" in early June 2008.

Jose Canseco was playing for the Blue Jays in 1998. On or about June 8-10, 1998, the Toronto Blue Jays played an away series with the Florida Marlins. McNamee attended a lunch party that Canseco hosted at his home in Miami. McNamee stated that, during this luncheon, he observed Clemens, Canseco, and another person he did not know meeting inside Canseco’s house, although McNamee did not personally attend that meeting. Canseco told members of my investigative staff that he had numerous conversations with Clemens about the benefits of Deca-Durabolin and Winstrol and how to “cycle” and “stack” steroids. Canseco has made similar statements publicly.

"Overheard" seems a bit strong here, given what McNamee told Mitchell's people:

McNamee testified that he overheard a conversation between teammates Clemens and Jose Canseco about steroids in the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse

McNamee stated that, during this luncheon, he observed Clemens, Canseco, and another person he did not know meeting inside Canseco’s house, although McNamee did not personally attend that meeting.

McNamee, through his attorney, entered into a written agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. The agreement provides that McNamee will cooperate with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. No truthful statements can be used against McNamee in any federal prosecution by that Office; if, however, he should be untruthful in any statements made pursuant to that agreement, he may be charged with criminal violations, including making false statements, which is a felony.

FWIW, I believe Canseco provided a sworn affidavit that Clemens was not at the party, which Canseco recalled because he was disappointed Clemens wasn't there.

You're mixing up different things, probably because McNamee is inventing new facts.

Which presumably means that he was at Canseco's house at some point, but not during the party. Which would contradict McNamee's testimony du jour, though I'm sure he has a better memory now.

(And your #13 made me laugh.)

I'm still pretty annoyed no one has sent out an answer to the question in #3.

Hardin was incredulous that McNamee didn't relate that conversation to federal investigators or while being interviewed for the 2007 Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

"Bad memory," McNamee said, adding that nothing ever came of the conversation.

Wouldn't you think that McNamee's lawyers would have gone over the Mitchell Report with McNamee and said, "OK, Brian, here's what you said before, so let's tell that same story now"? If you're in a trial that's basically a he-said/he-said situation, the last thing you want is for the he on your side to be telling an entirely new story.

Wouldn't you think that McNamee's lawyers would have gone over the Mitchell Report with McNamee and said, "OK, Brian, here's what you said before, so let's tell that same story now"? If you're in a trial that's basically a he-said/he-said situation, the last thing you want is for the he on your side to be telling an entirely new story.

By "McNamee's lawyers," you mean "prosecutors," ...

The problem for McNamee on cross is that Hardin knows better than he does which versions he's told and when he's told them.