Newsday's Ken Davidoff has an interesting piece describing the friendship (or lack thereof?) between Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. The article's source is a mutual friend of the two who says that basically they enjoyed training together, but that's as far as it went. It also mentions Pettitte's displeasure with Clemens' taped phone call with Brian McNamee and how Clemens seemed to be displeased by the fact that Pettitte corroborated McNamee's claim of Andy's HGH use.

Andy Pettitte is said by friends to be upset with Roger Clemens because of Clemens' aggressive defense to the charges leveled against him in the Mitchell Report. Most of all, Pettitte didn't care for Clemens' public airing of his taped phone call with accuser Brian McNamee, which accomplished little.

Among its many unexpected consequences, the Mitchell Report has magnified just how different Clemens and Pettitte are. And with the two men set to share a table at Capitol Hill's Rayburn Hall next month, it's as good a time as any to point out that this supposed mentor-protege's relationship has been overblown by the media -- with this space as guilty as anyone else.

"They were never as close as they were made out to be," a friend of both said on the condition of anonymity. "They just sort of went along with it in the media, because it was a good story."

I don't think this means we should expect to see a future episode of "Celebrity Deathmatch" featuring these two, but it is an interesting read nonetheless.