what’s even more laughable is probably the percentage of reporters that are on coke when they’re grilling pettitte later.

I think that Andy won’t have any regrets on his deathbed. The same can’t be said for Roger Clemens and the countless others who hide in silence.

Everyone needs to get their story straight because it’s a federal crime to use that antibiotic or painkiller that was prescribed to someone else.

So when is it OK then?”

According to how the media treats it, amphetamines were ok before 2005. Despite that amphetamines were a controlled substance since 1970.
So Pete, what’s the difference between HGH and some greenies?

I agree, I have lost a little respect for Pettite through all of this. I don’t buy the whole “it wasn’t a banned substance” thing because, if it were so legal, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it, guys wouldn’t have been sneaking around doing it, everyone would have been doing it right out in the open, right there in the clubhouse. Whatever they thought of the legality of taking the drug, they all knew it was cheating in some form.
But here, in my opinion, is the MAJOR difference between Pettite and Clemens and Bonds: by all accounts, Clemens and Bonds took the drug to improve their performance over an extended period of time and extend their career past where it would naturally have gone. Both of those guys, HOF caliber players, seemed not to be content with their standing in baseball at the time they began taking the drug and decided they wanted that “edge” to become better, over many years, then they naturally would have been. Pettite, on the other hand, by his own admission and by McNamee’s testimony, took the drug to recover from injuries. He didn’t go on any program. He didn’t go on a cycle of drugs that seemingly effected him for years. He took the drug to get better. Does that make it right? No, there are other, non-HGH ways of healing yourself, but it certainly doesn’t rise to the level of “gaining and unfair advantage” like Clemens and Pettite. It isn’t giving him a pass, of “see-no-evil” fans, it is simply an understanding of the context and recognizing that Pettite’s use was not as blatantly immoral as other. Just my opinion.