Andy Pettitte apologized today to the Yankees, the Astros, and his fans for the embarrassment he caused them by using Human Growth Hormone. Really, he is the only person that he should be apologizing to.

Andy Pettitte let down Andy Pettitte. The Yankees don't care that he used HGH. The Astros certainly don't care. His fans might, but that's only if they continue to believe the fact-less allegations made by the main stream media that HGH is a performance enhancer and continue to ignore all of the facts (medical studies) that say it isn't. If anyone is embarrassed by Andy Pettitte using HGH, they should really just be embarrassed for themselves because they're obviously chumps. There's also a beautiful bridge in New York City that's for sale on the cheap. That's true, it was destroyed in that movie Cloverfield but they built it back as good as new.

'I never want a young person to do what I did,' Pettitte said. 'I'm sorry for the mistakes I have made.'

Once again, it's all about the kids. The sad thing is that the best way to make sure that kids don't make the mistake of spending large sums of money acquiring and then injecting themselves with HGH (sounds incredibly likely doesn't it) is to educate people that HGH is not actually beneficial to healthy people. Of course, this would be problematic if it were a lie, but luckily HGH is actually not at all beneficial to healthy people. How convenient. Yet for some reason that fact continues to get ignored nearly every time HGH gets mentioned.

Michael Miner of the Chicago Reader summed up the sad state that baseball writing has sunk itself into:

'Because 'shame on you' stories virtually write themselves, the drug scourge is one of the best things that ever happened to baseball columnists. They wake up on the side of the angels, thwack the devil, and sleep like children… among journalists, even if there's no proof, even if there's no evidence, even if there's only c...

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