McNamee's lawyer: 'This is war'

Updated: January 8, 2008, 1:41 PM EST

It's not totally clear what Roger Clemens thought playing his taped 17-minute phone conversation with former trainer Brian McNamee would accomplish. But one thing it has done is arouse the ire of McNamee's lawyer.

Hours after Clemens made public the personal conversation that McNamee did not realize was being recorded, Richard Emery had some choice words for the man who calls his client "Mac."

"What does (Clemens) do, he calls him back with his lawyer in the room and a tape recorder going," Emery told the New York Daily News. "He wants to play that game, he's going to get buried. I have no compunction about putting him in jail.

"This is war."

According to McNamee's attorneys, the embattled trainer originally reached out to Clemens because he was hoping the pitcher would call his ill son, a big Clemens fan. Instead, the attorneys claim, Clemens used that opportunity to try to corner McNamee.

"(McNamee's) angry that the information about his son was manipulated in that fashion," Earl Ward, another McNamee attorney, told the Daily News. "The original text message to Roger said, 'My son is sick, can you call him at home?' Brian was not even living there. He had no intention of talking to Clemens. (Clemens) never did call his son."

McNamee's attorneys also dispute Clemens' claim that he did not know the contents of the Mitchell report before it was released, according to the newspaper.

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