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Andy Pettitte rotated his neck. He rubbed his temples. He fidgeted with his gray suit jacket, held up his face with each hand, yawned, sipped a bottle of water and shifted in his chair.
What Pettitte never did yesterday, in this moment he has been dreading for years, was smile.
What he did only once, because he had little choice, was look in Roger Clemens’ direction. “That’s him, in the suit and the greenish tie,” Pettitte said, when asked to point out his former friend and teammate in the court room. Clemens unnecessarily stood up, adding drama to the awkwardness.
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