During yesterday's testimony by Brian McNamee, he said that, in 2000, David Cone sought him out at the back of the team plane, to ask for some advice.

Cone, McNamee alledges, told him that the owners didn't want tougher testing, but that they needed an excuse that they could go to the media with. He said that Cone wanted to see if McNamee could help come up with that excuse, but he was unable to.

Cone says that that never happened.

"I never said the owners didn't want to talk about drug testing. I would never say that," Cone said. "It wasn't my opinion that owners didn't want to drug test. And I would never discuss union issues with someone not in the union. And he was not in the union."