Well now we know McNamee is a liar, but is Roger?

The AP is reporting tonight that Brian McNamee lied to police during a 2001 rape case.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Detectives believed the former New York Yankees trainer who says he injected Roger Clemens with steroids lied to them during the 2001 investigation of a possible rape, according to documents released Tuesday by police.

Police said Brian McNamee denied having sex with a possibly drugged woman in a hotel pool, even though security guards and other witnesses said they saw him.

McNamee hired a New York attorney, who called detectives to arrange an interview.

"I explained to him that his client did talk with me once, and he lied to me," St. Petersburg Police Detective Donald Crotty wrote in a report. ...

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The records released Tuesday by the St. Petersburg police show McNamee was suspected of raping a woman he had met at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in October 2001. The Yankees were in town to close out the regular season against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and many players and support staff were staying at the upscale resort.

McNamee was having sex with the woman in the resort's pool and didn't stop when confronted by security, the documents say. Police were notified. When they arrived, they found McNamee had helped the woman out of the pool and get dressed, according to the documents. Groggy and incoherent, she was taken to the hospital, where the documents said she was found to have GHB, the "date-rape drug," in her system.

The woman told detectives she could not remember details of the encounter in the pool. She said she did not give McNamee permission to have sex with her, and witnesses told detectives they had heard her saying "no" during the encounter, according to the documents.

Detectives later recovered some of her jewelry, an empty beer can and a water bottle containing GHB at the side of the pool.

Police interviewed McNamee hours later, according to the documents, and he denied having sex with the woman or knowing Yankees batting practice pitcher, Charles Wonsowicz, who was also in the pool. McNamee refused to submit a saliva sample for DNA analysis, the documents said.

That McNamee sure is a class-act.

What surprises me - and probably Clemens - most is that the public would choose to believe a guy like Brian McNamee, over Clemens. McNamee has proven time after time that he is a low-life, and a liar, while Clemens has not. The sad reality is that people would rather see Clemens be guilty, even if it would end up hurting the game of baseball. Let's face it, if Clemens is proven to have been a clean ball player, most people following the story will be upset, I know it's sad, but it's true. We love controversies, and (other) people's problems, and their pain. Why else would utterly pointless human beings like Britney Spears, or her sister be the top news story everyday?