Canseco tweets about subpoena in Clemens case

Jose Canseco announced Tuesday on Twitter that he had been subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

Canseco posted on the social networking site that the FBI was about to visit his house, then said he had received a subpoena to appear before the grand jury ``about roger clemens,andrew pettite and others'' on April 8.

Pettitte has acknowledged taking human growth hormone and told congressional investigators that Clemens informed him a decade ago that he used HGH.

``Its like the godfather,'' Canseco said in a later post, ``when I thought I was out they drag me back in. And now it begins again.''

Prosecutors have asked a federal grand jury in Washington to decide whether to indict Clemens for lying under oath to Congress in 2008 when the seven-time Cy Young Award winner denied using steroids or HGH.

In Canseco's 2005 book, ``Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big,'' the slugger claimed he introduced several players to steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. But Canseco has said he has no knowledge of Clemens using drugs.

``I have never had a conversation with Clemens in which he expressed any interest in using steroids or human growth hormone,'' Canseco said in a 2008 affidavit submitted to the same congressional committee that heard his former teammate's testimony. ``Clemens has never asked me to give him steroids or human growth hormone, and I have never seen Clemens use, possess or ask for steroids or human growth hormone.''