Pettitte talked with Clemens about using HGH 10 years ago

[cboy4]

** Congressional hearing today (WED)-- SportsCenter Special: Wed., ESPN, 9:30 a.m. ET

Pettitte talked with Clemens about using HGH 10 years ago

ESPN.com news services

Updated: February 13, 2008, 1:39 AM ET

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens told Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte nearly 10 years ago that he used human growth hormone, Pettitte said in a sworn affidavit to Congress on Tuesday.

Pettitte disclosed the conversation to the congressional committee holding Wednesday's hearings on drug use in baseball, according to multiple media outlets.

A person familiar with the affidavit, who said it was signed Friday night, told The Associated Press that Pettitte also said Clemens backtracked when the subject of HGH came up again in conversation in 2005, before the same House committee held the first hearing on steroids in baseball. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the affidavit had not been released.

Pettitte said in the affidavit that he asked Clemens in 2005 what he would do if asked by the media about HGH, given his admission years earlier. According to the account told to the AP, the affidavit said Clemens responded by saying Pettitte misunderstood the previous exchange in 1999 or 2000 and that, in fact, Clemens had been talking about HGH use by his wife in the original conversation.

http://proxy.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3242017

[Auggie]

1. The Rocket is going down

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk." - Curly

[cboy4]

8. HAHAHAHA. You're too much,

Clemens should really just shave that "island" off near the front of his head and go bald. It would look better anyway.

[frylock]

3. clemens throws wife under bus..

what a stud.

[chelsea0011]

4. He would like us to believe that she invited McNamee into the

master bedroom and dropped her shorts so he could inject her ass without his knowledge. LOL

[Yavin4]

5. Well...uh...ummm....uh

<<dropped her shorts so he could inject her ass without his knowledge?>>

We're still talking about steroids right?

[chelsea0011]

6. I'm waiting for this to show up on You Tube

[ticapnews]

7. Technically, it was her stomach...

:D

But yeah, that's what we're supposed to believe.

The best line was Debbie saying that doing HGH was a "harmless act." Well played, Ma'am.

[erpowers]

9. The Wife Issue

I wanted to see how people were responding to the idea that Clemens claimed that his wife was the one who used HGH. I did not believe the statement in that I do not see how any guy who thinks steriods or HGH is bad for you would let his wife use those drugs. In addition, I just do not see how the wife of a guy would use steriods and/or HGH while her husband was playing in a particular sport without thinking about what might happen to the husband in the future. Finally, I do not see a wife taking steroids and/or HGH if her professional sports husband is not doing the same thing. It seems that he used the drugs and then let his wife do the same.