WWJD?

I like Andy Pettitte, but his sanctimony is wearing thin with me.

From the New York Daily News:

Friday night, the Yankee lefty said the media sensationalized his tumultuous winter when he was named in the Mitchell Report, admitted his own human growth hormone use as well as his dad's, and had to finger his friend and former teammate Roger Clemens as an HGH user.

"The whole thing was horrible for my kids, the way the media portrayed it," Pettitte said. "It was so magnified. It was obviously a big deal, but it almost did more damage than it did good, the way it was so, I thought, sensationalized."

OK, Andy. I'm a Yankee fan, but I think you've largely gotten a free ride.           "Sensationalized"? When a guy talks about Jesus as much as you do and then breaks one of the most visible, under-the-microscope rules in the game, what is the media supposed to do? Pray for you?

Give it a rest.

Pettitte, of course, says he wants to help young players. Part of his "WWJD" ethic, I guess:

"Anything I can do to help kids, I want to do. I feel like I've been put at the forefront of this situation, and I think that when you have things that come across in your life - that sometimes you feel like are a serious tragedy - you can make it, sometimes, turn into a great triumph.

"That's what I'm going to try and do. And my wife will always try to do that. I'll try to embrace this, just like I'll embrace everything else. Like I've told you before, God's in control of my life. He's going to put me where He wants me to be. He's going to take care of me in the bad times."

"God's in control of my life."  Blah, blah, blah. "God" must have been on the DL when Dad and you were scoring the HGH, huh, Andy?