Andy Pettitte is on Capitol Hill this morning talking, behind closed doors, about steroids in baseball:
WASHINGTON — Andy Pettitte walked into a Congressional office Monday morning to give a transcribed statement focused on his former teammate Roger Clemens’s challenge to the Mitchell report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
Wearing a gray pin-striped suit and holding his wife’s hand, Pettitte towered above four other suited men in his entourage, apparently lawyers.
The group walked silently off the elevator, past a group of journalists in the hall where camera shutters made the only noise, through the House oversight committee hearing room and into a back office. Pettitte will be interviewed by lawyers for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Pettitte may provide key testimony in the high-stakes dispute between Clemens and Brian McNamee, a former trainer for Pettitte, Clemens and Chuck Knoblauch. McNamee has said he injected them with drugs.
While Clemens has challenged the report, Pettitte has said that McNamee and the Mitchell report were correct in saying he took two injections of human growth hormone while recovering from an elbow injury in 2002.
Pettitte, 35, recently signed a one-year, $16 million contract extension with the Yankees.
His appearance comes on the same day Clemens is due to arrive in Washington for his own closed-door testimony.
Clemens is scheduled to give a transcribed interview Tuesday, and McNamee is set to give a deposition Thursday, their lawyers said Sunday.
One wonders how long it will be before details of the testimony leak out.
