Only for baseball writers who'd be broke without Pettitte-Clemens

(From Newsday's Ken Davidoff): "Andy Pettitte is said by friends to be upset with Roger Clemens because of Clemens' aggressive defense to the charges leveled against him in the Mitchell Report. Most of all, Pettitte didn't care for Clemens' public airing of his taped phone call with accuser Brian McNamee, which accomplished little.

• Among its many unexpected consequences, the Mitchell Report has magnified just how different Clemens and Pettitte are. And with the two men set to share a table at Capitol Hill's Rayburn Hall next month, it's as good a time as any to point out that this supposed mentor-protege's relationship has been overblown by the media -- with this space as guilty as anyone else.

"They were never as close as they were made out to be," a friend of both said on the condition of anonymity. "They just sort of went along with it in the media, because it was a good story.""....

• From Newsday article by Ken Davidoff, "Friend Says Pettitte Wasn't Pals with Clemens," 1/19/08

P.S. Clemens joining the Astros with Pettitte the first time was what I hoped for from the second Pettitte was kicked out of the Yankees. Anyone would've made that move who had an ounce of respect or affection for Andy. Aside from it making sense for Clemens in other ways, Steinbrenner and Cashman needed to be put in their place for how badly they treated a home grown lifelong Yankee. Move along.

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