This photograph from earlier in the week appeared in a NY Daily News column. Andy Pettitte’s sons and their cousins join in the taunting of Pedro Martinez, with “Who’s Your Daddy?” painted on their bare chests. I was surprised by the photo. I’m not sure why—-after all, they are teenagers doing what teenagers do at ballparks. I suppose I expected their father to tell them about respecting the pitching fraternity.

I was thinking, Astros didn’t want to commit to a two year contract (for 2006 and 2007 I think it was) for Andy Pettitte. Some thought Pettitte was about done as pitcher; and here he is four years later pitching critical post-season games.

It was also weird to watch Andy Pettitte pitch to batter Eric Bruntlett.

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his hitting is what led to that season ending injury. I think we’d go to the WS that year too. It was in 2004, the year we had Beltran and Kent.