Transcripts: McNamee tried to balance Clemens loyalty, pressure
from feds  Updated: February 14, 2008, 11:40 PM ET By Mark
Fainaru-Wada |  In the week leading up to the release of the
Mitchell report, Brian McNamee scrambled to warn Roger Clemens
and Andy Pettitte they would soon be outed as drug cheats --
while at the same time portraying himself as a man who gave up
the two Yankees greats only after federal investigators
pressured him to cooperate with baseball's steroids probe.
Transcripts of two conversations between McNamee and
representatives for Clemens and Pettitte provide new context to
the strange and contentious saga that has erupted since Clemens
was named in the Mitchell report on Dec. 13.  The transcripts
show McNamee painting a picture of himself as a friend trying to
help Clemens despite warnings from government officials and
former Sen. George Mitchell's investigators not to talk to
anyone before the steroids report is released  They also
demonstrate that Team Clemens became aware of McNamee