Pettitte Talks to Feds About Clemens

Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens are, by all accounts, best friends. BFFs. Besties. They probably even have the same color Trapper-Keepers. They're just that tight, which makes their different approaches to their use of steroids/HGH a little, well, awkward. Pettitte admits what he did. Clemens maintains his innocence. That could be coming back to bite them.

Yes, federal prosecuters apparently cornered Pettitte long enough to ask him questions about his friend, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Associated Press:

Two people familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Pettitte was in Washington last week to meet with prosecutors. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation. [...] Pettitte could be a crucial witness for any case against Clemens. The two trained together for years. Pettitte has acknowledged taking human growth hormone and told congressional investigators that Clemens informed him nearly a decade ago that he used HGH.

Sure, it's possible Andy Pettitte never saw Roger Clemens take anything, and it's possible they never once discussed the matter. It's possible that two best friends, both aging pitchers, who trained together all the time, for the same sport, in the steroid "era," never once had a conversation about whether the other was using steroids. It's possible. But it doesn't seem very likely, does it?