Pushkin

On February 18th, 2008, on the first day of spring training, a major league baseball player

named Andy Pettit held a press conference.

He was a pitcher who over the course of a long and brilliant career played for the New York

Yankees and Houston Astros, a straight arrow, a beloved teammate, one of the good guys.

But now an investigation by major league baseball had found that Pettit had, on several occasions,

used performance enhancing drugs.

I want to apologize to the New York Yankees and to the Houston Astros organizations,

and to their fans, and to all my teammates, and to all of baseball fans.

For the embarrassment, I have calls them.

He reads from notes his head bowed in shame.

I also want to tell anyone that as an Andy Pettit fan, I am sorry.

Pettit wanted to come clean, sort of.

I'm not that much of a baseball fan, but I have to say I've always been obsessed with his case.

Obsessed to the point, where if you sat next to me in an airplane, I would bring it up without warning and bend your ear for a good half hour.

First off, what sort of bizarre apology is this?

I want to apologize for the embarrassment I caused others.

Others? I thought this was about Andy Pettit and what Andy Pettit did wrong.

I never took this to get an edge on anyone.

I did this to try to get off the DL and to do my job.

And again, for that, I am sorry for the mistakes I've made.

Pettit says I was injured.

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