Despite the Acquittal, Kirk Radomski Continues to Insist Roger Clemens is Guilty

Roger Clemens was acquitted on all charges during his highly publicized perjury trial on Monday. Whether or not that will clear him in the court of public opinion will remain to be seen, but it doesn’t seem likely and Kirk Radomski’s continued adamant insistence that Clemens is guilty won’t help his cause.

Radomski, you’ll remember, is the New York Mets’ former bat boy and clubhouse attendant who has admitted to supplying Major League players with steroids and human growth hormone. He says Clemens has gotten off because his lawyers have convinced people that because Clemens didn’t get big and muscular, he must not have used performance-enhancing drugs.

Kirk Radomski joined 790 The Zone in Atlanta with Mayhem in the AM to discuss his relation to the Roger Clemens trial, the legal ramifications he’s faced due to his involvement, what he has told investigators over time, why he believes Clemens is still guilty despite the acquittal, sending Clemens steroids in personal trainer Brian McNamee’s name, and the level of usage of performance-enhancing drugs during the steroid era.

Remind folks of how you’re tied to this case:

“I worked with the New York Mets for 10 years. I was a batboy and clubhouse attendant. And I helped guys, throughout the decade of the 90s and early 2000s, get performance-enhancing drugs.”

And you’ve faced some legal issues because you’ve come out and admitted that:

“Yes I did. I told the truth. I was raised that if you get caught, you stand up for you and take responsibility and that’s what I did.” And also part of that is they told you if they ever found out you were lying you’d be in more trouble, right?: “Oh yeah, definitely. Part of my plea agreement is that if I lie at any time, they can go back at me with other things.”

Did they ask you for a full list of names behind closed doors?:

“They went over evidence they had. I didn’t supply everything I knew.”

Were you prepared to give up every name you knew to avoid jail time?:

“No. If they had the evidence, I had an answer, but I wasn’t going to supply any other names.”

Why do you think Roger Clemens is guilty even though he was acquitted on all charges this week?:

“It’s obvious. In the trial, Rusty Hardin tried to make everyone believe if you use steroids and growth hormones, you grow and you get so big and you get all muscles. All the guys I dealt with in baseball, the dosages I gave all the players was so minute compared to bodybuilders that the reason they were using it was for recuperation — meaning they could train as hard as they want, every day, and they wouldn’t be sore the next day. That was the biggest thing that Rusty Hardin didn’t want the jury to know. His whole thing is that if he didn’t have big muscles and zits and he didn’t look like a bodybuilder … he must not be using it. That wasn’t the case. The growth hormones that I was giving the ballplayers, one kit would last 28-35 days. If a bodybuilder was taking it, it would last three or four days.”

Can you just explain a little more about how much more difficult it is to work out as hard as players do once they get past 35 years old?:

“That was the question they asked me in court, ‘Was he a hard worker?’ He worked extremely hard, but they wouldn’t let me answer the next question. He worked that hard because he was able to at that age because he was given something to make him recuperate that much quicker.”

You say you sent the steroids to Roger Clemens’ house in Brian McNamee’s name. Did McNamee ever tell you that he was injecting Clemens?:

“No. We wouldn’t talk about it. He was a cop. We knew what we were doing and we didn’t want to hurt each other. … You see something and you don’t ask questions and you can say you’re not sure or you don’t know.”

Did you ever inject a Major League player?:

“Yes I did. I went on the record that injected one guy, that I helped him with a shot.”

Was it so free-willed that guys were doing it in the facilities at the Major League level?:

“No, it was behind closed doors in their own apartments or hotel rooms. It wasn’t that open. People still wanted their privacy.”

Were the guys you helped out ever conflicted and what about teammates who had to have known they were trying to do something to gain an advantage?:

“That’s how I got in touch with so many guys, it became, ‘I have a friend on the team that wants to talk to you. I have a guy on another team that wants to talk to you.’ It just was everyone was handing my number off. If you look at the Mitchell Report, it was introduced from another player from another player, another player. It was a snowball affect. It was so widespread that guys talked about it between players.”

Listen to Kirk Radomski on 790 The Zone in Atlanta here