If you're a beloved star athlete who has just been outed as a growth hormone-slamming cheat, you have essentially two choices: Either fess up, apologize, and ask for forgiveness; or keep your trap shut, ignore the growing public outrage, lie and deny, and punch walls while shooting yourself up with more steroids and kicking adorable puppies.

Option one is what Andy Pettitte chose. Option two is what the public (or is it just me?) imagines Roger Clemens chose. The latter is ...