Long Beach Resident to Testify in Clemens Trial

Long Beach resident Brian McNamee, the former Yankees assistant strength coach and personal trainer of Roger Clemens, is expected to testify this week in the baseball great’s federal perjury trial in which he faces charges that he lied to Congress about using steroids during his playing days.

The chief accuser in the trial, McNamee testified to Congress four years ago and provided used needles, syringes, swabs and cotton balls that he claims he used to inject Clemens with steroids and kept for seven years in a beer can and FedEx box, according to Newsday. But due to government attorney’s introduction of more material evidence and background information on Monday for his testimony, McNamee may not take the stand Tuesday, as scheduled, and perhaps not at all this week, MLB.com reports.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Durham told Judge Reggie Walton:

"There is no prospect of us getting to McNamee [on Tuesday] ... We may or may not reach him by Thursday.”

Last November, McNamee appeared on Broadcasting On The Beach, a radio show about all things Long Beach” on WGBB 1240. The general manager and trainer at the Long Island Sports Complex in Freeport, the site of an after-school baseball training camp where he trains two pitchers from Long Beach High School, McNamee fielded questions about supplements and steroid use among high school athletes.