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No Longer Dandy?
By Jeremy | December 13, 2007
The biggest disappointment in today's Mitchell Report: Andy Pettitte.
That notorious creeps Barroid Bonds, Kevin Brown, Gary Sheffield and even Rocket Roger Clemens were fingered is far less surprising (although having the greatest hitter (Bonds) and pitcher (Clemens) of the Steroid Era exposed in the same report is poetic justice). But Pettitte was the aw shucks hero of the dynastic 90s, the homegrown southpaw with a heart of gold ... and a sterling Christian testimony to boot. Now he's been branded a cheat along with the rest of the scoundrels who corrupted the game.
Come on, Dandy Andy. If the report is true, please quit the denials and come clean. If it's not, mercy on the accuser and vindication for the aggrieved.
Word to Yankee Haters: just because Yankee cheats (and Mets and Giants too) littered the Mitchell Report like dime bags in a crack house, don't think your teams weren't just as juiced. During 20 months of mostly stonewalling from MLB players and their Union, the only reliable sources (coerced by the Feds) were from the Bay Area (Balco) and two Yankee and Met clubhouse pushers.
Update, 12/17/07
+ Dandy became the first player named in the Mitchell Report to come clean this weekend, admitting HGH use twice to aid recovery from an injury in 2002 -- before MLB had banned it -- and apologizing for his bad judgment. The question for the public is whether to believe that he only used HGH on the occasions when he got caught. More than the Yankee fan within and the Christian faith we both share, I'm inclined to believe him because chronic cheating flies so squarely against the otherwise impeccable reputation Pettitte has established throughout his career. Andy, please don't let us down again, by having evidence of additional usage surface down the road. If there's more to your story, please don't wait again to be confronted by the evidence. Yankee fans want to believe you, we really do, and I for one choose to believe you.Topics: andy pettitte, baseball, cheating, mitchell report, roger clemens, scandal, sports, steroids, yankees | No Comments »
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