Watch out for those “friends”

I was thinking Thursday afternoon about the Giants’ Antonio Pierce, and how his trying to help his foolish and selfish friend, Plaxico Burress, could land him in a lot of trouble (see above blog item), when news concerning Texas Tech’s Michael Crabtree moved on the wire.

Crabtree, a redshirt freshman, already might be the best college football player in the nation and is projected as a likely first-round draft pick on 2011.

That would mean millions of dollars and a dream realized.

Yet there was Crabtree being rousted in the early a.m. Thursday while DEA agents searched his Lubbock apartment for drugs.

Crabtree wasn’t the target — teammate/roommate De'Shon Sanders was — but if Crabtree had been dragged into the probe, he wouldn’t have been the first roommate accidentally netted in a drug bust.

Sanders was cuffed and taken to jail, booked on charges of dealing cocaine.

Crabtree, meanwhile, was left to ponder the importance of choosing one’s friends wisely.