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Pettitte admits briefly using HGH during 2002

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December 15, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone to recover from an elbow injury in 2002, the New York Yankees pitcher admitted two days after he was cited in the Mitchell Report.
Pettitte said he tried HGH on two occasions, stressing he did it to heal faster and not enhance his performance. He emphasized he never used steroids.
"If what I did was an error in judgment on my part, I apologize," Pettitte said Saturday in a statement released by his agent. "I accept responsibility for those two days."
On Thursday, Pettitte was among 85 players named by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's investigation into steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. Pettitte had not commented publicly on the allegations.
Pettitte asked the trainer he shared with Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee, to help him with HGH while on the disabled list early in the season, the report said. McNamee recalled injecting Pettitte two to four times, Mitchell said.
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"I felt an obligation to get back to my team as soon as possible. For this reason, and only this reason, for two days I tried human growth hormone. Though it was not against baseball rules, I was not comfortable with what I was doing, so I stopped.
"This is it -- two days out of my life; two days out of my entire career, when I was injured and on the disabled list," he said. "I wasn't looking for an edge. I was looking to heal."
Pettitte was not linked to steroids in the report, and said he never had never used them.
"I have the utmost respect for baseball and have always tried to live my life in a way that would be honorable," he said. "If I have let down people that care about me, I am sorry, but I hope that you will listen to me carefully and understand that two days of perhaps bad judgment should not ruin a lifetime of hard work and dedication.
"I have tried to do things the right way my entire life, and, again, ask that you put those two days in the proper context. People that know me will know that what I say is true," he said.
The Yankees backed Pettitte.
"Late this afternoon, Andy Pettitte advised us that he would be making a public statement. We support his coming forward," the team said in a statement.
The 35-year-old lefty is 201-113 lifetime. He started his major league career in 1995 and won four World Series championships with the Yankees. He pitched for his hometown Houston Astros from 2004-06 and helped them reach their first World Series.
Pettitte returned to the Yankees last season and went 15-9. This month, he put off retirement and agreed to a $16 million, one-year contract to play for the Yankees next season.
Mitchell devoted 1 1/2 pages to McNamee's testimony about Pettitte. Clemens was mentioned on nearly nine pages, with McNamee saying he injected the star pitcher.
Clemens was accused of using steroids and HGH and, through his lawyer, vehemently denied the accusations. When Clemens joined the Yankees in 1999, he and Pettitte became fast friends and training partners. McNamee was part of their regimen -- Clemens had worked with him in Toronto before being traded to New York. According to the Mitchell Report, Pettitte asked McNamee about using HGH after the 2001 season, and the trainer said he discouraged the pitcher from trying it.

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2 days? - blah, blah, blah - might as well just deny the whole thing
 

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They don't need to apologize - just admit it and move on - learn from your mistakes - pay in cash in the future
 

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They don't need to apologize - just admit it and move on - learn from your mistakes - pay in cash in the future

Yeah, I can't over how many of these clowns thought that writing a personal check for roids wouldn't bite them in the ass in the future.

Too stupid to deserve my sympathy.
 

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wouldnt be surprised if it was more then 2 days

2 days would have no effect whatsoever - people using GH run it several months at a time - these guys and their lies are fvcking hysterical - at least Giambi and McGuire had the balls to admit they used juice.

My girl just caught me with the neighbor - I thought about denying it but I was caught - so I told her I rubbed my shaft against her box but never penetrated - I think she bought it - boy, I'm such a genius.
 

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The Mitchell Report "caught" about 80 players using illegal drugs. But we all know that this was just the tip of the iceberg and many more players took steroids or HGH but never got caught.

Similarly, these 80 players that got caught were probably taking far more than what this report found. So while i appreciate Pettite coming forward, i still think he is lying.
 

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haha for cheating. every major league player has cheated in one way or another. bogus.
 

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this would be like having the police watching the neighborhood dope man and you drop him a check 15 dimes worth the dope. what were these idiots thinking. only reason more names were not dropped is the rest wisely payed cash, no proof no problem.
 

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when is clemens gonna confess? i mean no one cares anyway. maybe petite throws his buddy under the bus?
 

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Let Andy go! As a die hard Sox fan, I dont put much credence into any kind of Yankee Steriod / HGH talk.

Lets just move forward and play ball.
 

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exactly, no one really cares. people care more when these clowns lie about it. just say, yeah i did it. nice move by pettitte.
 

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