Andy Pettitte

The Banality Of Steroid Use

Andy Pettitte spoke today at Yankees camp about steroids. He said all the right things, and answered all the questions in all the right ways, the way baseball players have always said the right things and answered all the questions in all the right ways, for generations: Show a sliver of humanity, talk with brio "like a man," don't fully admit to anything (he actually claimed he didn't take HGH for an advantage. Makes sense) but generally show remorse about a vague unnamed, concept finish up with, "I'm just ready to go out there and play baseball." More »

3:38 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Leitch
6,617 views, 51 comments

Latest by don_mynack: Andy had to have hit the juice again in 2006 - first half of the season? Getting raked by the likes of the Nationals, Reds, and Royals. Second half? Superman. You tell me. more »

mean girls

He's Totally Rich Because Her Dad Invented Toaster Streudels

It's probably best, at this point, to think of Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte as characters from "Mean Girls." More »

11:10 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Leitch
12,671 views, 80 comments

the mitchell report

Kelly Leak, Jim Duggan, Alice ... All Roiders!

I was planning on writing about the Andy Pettitte news here, but really, what is there to say? He took some human growth hormone five years ago to treat an injury and he "got caught." Pettitte says it was the only time he tried it his career — at a time when HGH wasn't illegal, no less — and well, I believe him. Big deal. More »

2:00 PM on Sun Dec 16 2007
By skeets
5,297 views, 26 comments

good ole grimsley

Are The Grimsley Affidavit Names Ever Coming Out?

Remember the Grimsley affidavit? (Yes: That one.) Well, the Associated Press has been suing that the public has a right to know the names that are in the affidavit, and the government says it's an ongoing investigation. (A very ongoing one.) More »

11:40 AM on Fri Jul 27 2007
By Leitch
5,302 views, 41 comments

baseball

Mota Somehow Finds Way To Fail Drug Test

Yesterday, relief pitcher Guillermo Mota was suspended 50 games for testing positive for steroids, and, as Baseball Musings points out, he at least didn't do the "might have accidentally put the wrong thing in my body" excuse; he manned up and apologized for his mistake. The suspension proves what we've known all along; middle relievers are destroying the beautiful game of baseball. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Nov 2 2006
By Leitch
190 views, 52 comments

mlb

Grimsley Fingers Clemens, Pettite, Tejada

And not in a good way. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Clemens, his good pal Andy Pettitte, and Miguel Tejada were among those accused of using performance-enhancers in the Jason Grimsley affidavit. Brian Roberts and Jay Gibbons, too. So much for Clemens getting through his career without ever being officially linked to performance-enhancers. More »

1:03 PM on Sun Oct 1 2006
By mjdeadspin
1,571 views, 15 comments

roger clemens

$20 Million, Spread Out Over Five... Months

Houston Chronicle sportswriter Richard Justice mentions in his blog that he's hearing that the Astros have offered Roger Clemens $20 million for five months of work. If my rusty math is correct, and Clemens was employed by the Astros for 150 days, and started one game every five days, and threw 100 pitches in each of those games, that would come out to about $1,667 per pitch. More »

5:11 PM on Sat May 6 2006
By mjdeadspin
83 views, 3 comments

to watch tonight

To Watch Tonight ...

What to watch as, somewhere out there, Russell Crowe is beating up a guy ...
• College FB: Utah at TCU. Yeah, we're wearing a Horned Frogs beer helmet. What of it?
• WNBA Finals: Sacramento at Connecticut. Quick, what are the two team nicknames? Oh, time's up.
• MLB: Marlins at Astros. Andy Pettitte helps Houston continue its quest to fall just short of the NLCS.

5:21 PM on Thu Sep 15 2005
By Leitch
92 views

Deadspin

Rick Reilly Is Stealing My Material

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