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In the wake of Roger Clemens saying at a congressional hearing last Wednesday that friend and former teammate Andy Pettitte “misremembered” a conversation they once had about HGH, Burlysports.com presents: The Roger Clemens “Misremember” Song.

Freaking hilarious.

New York Yankees’ VP Hank Steinbrenner wants everyone to stop picking on baseball for their steroid problems, and take a look at their football counterparts.

“I don’t like baseball being singled out,” the New York Yankees senior vice president said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday night.

“Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don’t know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don’t tell me it’s not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players.”

1. The NFL has had a drug-testing program in place for years.
2. They actually enforce it.

Hanky might be right that some football players are beating the system, but there’s no way in hell the NFL has a bigger issue on its hands than MLB. For over a decade, Bud Selig and MLB owners have looked the other way while players juiced. They cared more about getting fans back to the ballpark after the ’94 strike and thus, lining their pockets again with money, than the integrity of the game.

If the NFL does have a steroid issue, I trust Roger Goodell would try to make the situation right, as opposed to the Slug, who only when the problem got out of control did anything to fix it.

Andy Pettitte held a live press conference Monday to once again apologize for taking HGH and to allow the “truth to set him free.”

In the conference, Pettitte went status quo on several subjects, including how he doesn’t want kids to use performance-enhancing drugs, as well as how he’s only human and he made a mistake.

During the Q&A portion of the conference, several reporters attempted to ask Pettitte about Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee’s congressional hearing and more specifically, about Clemens’ comments about how Pettitte “misremembered” their conversation about taking HGH. Pettitte dodged the questions, saying, “he’s not going to go there” as well as sidestepping questions about whether or not he’s a cheater.

I’ll say again for the record: Andy Pettitte seems like the only one being completely honest. Although, he did seem to play dumb on several questions and there wasn’t much point for him to hold another press conference in attempts to clear his name once again.

Kyle Kendrick showed up to Philadelphia Phillies’ training camp over the weekend and was completely shocked to find out that he was traded to Japan’s Yomiuri Giants for “Kobayashi Iwamura.”

If only Kobayashi Iwamura was real, that is. Teammate Brett Myers set up the elaborate prank, which included manager Charlie Manuel, assistant GM Ruben Amaro Jr. and even the media.

Myers was freaking hilarious. This poor kid is in agony and Myers goes, “I’m sorry man. I’m real sorry man. Does the guy throw hard? Does he have a good sinker, or what?”

“Kid got traded for a hot dog eater!”

The AP is reporting that Andy Pettitte’s father got the HGH he supplied to his son from one of the pitcher’s ex-high school teammates.

Kelly Blair, who owns a gym in Pasadena, Texas, was the source of the substance, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.

Pettitte, who has admitted using HGH in 2004, told congressional attorneys that he received it from his father, Tom Pettitte, whose has had serious health problems. In his deposition, Pettitte said his father got the drugs from a trainer at a gym where he worked out but did not identify the trainer.

The Daily News reported that Blair sold HGH and steroids to customers at 1-on-1 Elite Personal Fitness. Blair did not respond to the newspaper’s requests for comment.

Weird. Even stranger is the fact that Pettitte got the HGH from his daddy.