New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi is claiming he wears a gold lamé, tiger-stripe thong when he is struggling at the plate and needing to break out of a hitting slump.

“I only put it on when I’m desperate to get out of a big slump,” he tells Portfolio.com.

Over the years, the 37-year-old All-Star has left the “golden thong” in the lockers of slumping teammates Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robin Ventura and Robinson Cano.

“All of them wore it and got hits,” he reports. “The thong works every time.”

This news is just plain disturbing and nasty.  No wonder the Yankees are in last place when they are sharing women’s panties to wear under the sacred pinstripes.

Either Giambi lost the thong or the thong lost its power because Jason is batting just .181 with 7 homers this season.  He batted .236 last year.
Giambi is making $23.3 million dollars this year.  Second in the big leagues, only behind teammate Alex Rodriguez.

The always interesting Manny Ramirez, of the Boston Red Sox, high fived a fan as he climbed the fence after catching a fly ball on Wednesday night. He then came back to his feet, threw the ball back into the infield and doubled the runner up at first for a double play.

Just Manny being Manny!

Tainted baseball legend Barry Bonds was charged by the Feds on Tuesday with 14 (a Pete Rose dozen) counts of perjury. The additional charges are bad news for Mr. Bonds.

The indictment revises prosecutors’ earlier indictment, which stemmed from the 43-year-old’s testimony in the BALCO steroids case. The new charges cite Bonds for each allegedly false statement he made while testifying before the grand jury, according to the station.U.S. District Judge Susan Illston had told prosecutors on Feb. 29 to fix their original indictment because it lumped multiple allegations into too few counts. Illston said that prosecutors needed to drop some of the allegations from the indictment or add more charges.

Bonds has not played so far in 2008 but continues to indict a desire to. Most teams have shied away from signing Bonds because of the massive amount of baggage that comes with him.

Barry is Major League Baseball’s all-time and single season home run leader.

Mindy, Angela & Paulette

Roger Clemens has a healthy appetite for women as was well reported last week. The ‘Rocket’ has been romantically linked to country music star Mindy McCready (story and photos), realtor Angela Moyer (story and photos), and John Daly’s ex-wife Paulette Dean Daly (story and photos).

Let me set up the poll question. You are at your local bar with several of your friends. They have already either retired for the night or gone home for late night activities. You are at the bar with the Roger’s version of the ‘Banger Sisters’. You have had three beers too many, are lonely, yet realize that one of these women would be eager to come home with you.

So who do you pick? Who wins the ‘Roger of Love’?

Cynthia Rodriguez says that her slugging baseball husband Alex Rodriguez is a big wimp when it comes to doctors and the birth of their first daughter.

“The one nurse had a cold cloth on his head. The other nurse had the blood pressure on his arm. And my mother was like rubbing his back. And he is passed out on a couch. And I am there, in the middle of labor,” Cynthia Rodriguez, wife of the New York Yankees star, said on an episode of the YES Network’s “YESterdays” that is scheduled to be broadcast Wednesday night.

“And really, I am not being paid much attention to besides the doctor and a couple of nurses,” she said. “And he is there moaning. In between pushing, I am going, `Honey, are you OK?’ and `Are you breathing? Are you OK?’ “

Are any of us really surprised about A-Rod being a bit wimpy?

Roger with wife Debbie Clemens

After an extremely rough week of alleged affairs with multiple women, Roger Clemens apologized publicly to his many fans.  He said he had already apologized to his wife and family.

“I need to say that I have made mistakes in my personal life for which I am sorry,” Clemens said in a statement handed to the Houston Chronicle, a favorite outlet for Clemens and his lawyer Rusty Hardin.

“I have apologized to my family and apologize to my fans,” Clemens said. “Like everyone, I have flaws. I have sometimes made choices which have not been right.”

Clemens made it clear he is not admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs.

The apology follows a week where Clemens was outed for affairs with country star Mindy McCready, Pennsylvania realtor Angela Moyer, and John Daly’s ex-wife Paulette Dean Daly.

Is Roger the modern day Wilt Chamberlain of the sporting world?

Roger Clemens has been accused this week of having affairs with an under aged Mindy McCready (read story), Angela Moyer (read story), and now John Daly’s ex-wife Paulette Dean Daly according to the NY Daily News.

The sources said Clemens, a married father of four, arranged trips to Anaheim Stadium for Daly - the latest woman to emerge as an alleged Rocket flame - to watch him pitch forthe Yankees against the Angels. Sources also said he spent time with her in Palm Springs, Calif.

The pair met at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, a Palm Springs golf tournament that Paulette Dean Daly has been involved with for many years - including stints as a “Classic Girl,” one of the beautiful women who help in ceremonial duties at the event, sources said.

“Yeah, I’ve known Roger quite a while and we are friends,” Daly said yesterday.

But was it romantic between Roger and Paulette?

She declined to elaborate on the nature of her relationship with the pitcher, but did not deny allegations from several sources that it was romantic and included financial support.

The NY Daily News has hit three homers off of Clemens this week. Will his attorney Rusty Hardin come out to the mound and pull Roger’s defamation suit against former trainer Brian McNamee to get Roger back into the safety of the club house?

Realtor Angela Moyer is being reported as another woman that pitcher Roger Clemens had a long term affair with for several years during his playing days according to the NY Daily News.

Moyer, a 30-year-old Realtor who lives in the Harrisburg, Pa., area, worked as a bartender from 2000 to 2004 at Sutton Place, a yuppie East Side watering hole. That’s roughly the same time the pitching legend played for the Yankees.

Moyer acknowledged she knew Clemens, but has declined to discuss the relationship. She was spotted driving up to her father’s apartment house last night, but said only “no comment” when asked about Clemens. She then sped off.

Country singer Mindy McCready confirmed a report earlier this week that she and the ‘Rocket’ had a 10-year affair that possibly began when she was just 15-years-old.

Country singer Mindy McCready has confirmed that yesterday’s report that Roger Clemens had a 10-year affair with her is the truth.  McCready confirmed to the NY Daily News that everything in their story yesterday couldn’t be refuted.

“I cannot refute anything in the story,” a tearful but resolute McCready told the Daily News, which broke the story at midnight Sunday.

The News reported that the two met in a Florida karaoke bar when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and Clemens was a 28-year-old ace for the Red Sox and a married father of two.

“Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time,” McCready said, reading from a prepared statement. “He’s a kind and caring man. He’s also a legendary athlete. The central topic in the debate, however, regards his professional life, not his personal life.

I could have never in a million years predicted that Mindy McCready’s extremely troubled past few years were could be tied to the ‘Rocket’.  I believe it is fair to say that she has many issues that have caused some of her addictions and problems over the past year that likely came from her underage romance with Clemens.

Related to this Story

• Roger Clemens Affair with Mindy McCready
• Mindy McCready’s Video Response to Rocket

Mindy McCready has responded to claims she had a 10-year affair with Roger Clemens with this music video from her song ‘Guys Do It All The Time’.

I love the line, “We’ll talk about it later, there’s a ballgame I wanna see.” Now we know what she meant.

I am sure Debbie Clemens is puking as we speak!

The New York Daily News is reporting that baseball pitching great Roger Clemens had a 10-year affair with country singer Mindy McCready that began when she was 15-years-old and lasted for more than a decade.

Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.

The revelations could torpedo claims of an unsullied character that are central to the defamation suit Clemens filed Jan. 6 against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. Vivid details of the affair could surface in several media projects that McCready is involved with - including a documentary that begins filming today in Nashville, a new album and a reality show.

Roger’s lawyer Rusty Hardin has confirmed their was a long-term relationship between Roger and Mindy but says it was not sexual in nature.

Contacted by the Daily News Sunday through his lawyer Rusty Hardin, Clemens confirmed a long-term relationship but denied that it was of a sexual nature.

“He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her,” Hardin said. “He’s considered her a close family friend. … He has never had a sexual relationship with her.”

Roger and his lawyer are not always the two most believable sources when it comes to veracity from Clemens’ past. If this is true and Clemens did start something romantic with McCready, when she was 15, then it could be ‘Jerry Lee Lewis’ devastating for the ‘Rocket’.

McCready has been in and out of jail for numerous reasons over the past couple of years. Her actions could be interpreted as someone lashing out from sexual abuse as a child or minor. She was sentenced to a year in jail and two years of probation last fall.

If ture this could be a coup for Brian McNamee in his defamation defense against Roger.

This year has been very tough for Roger’s wife Debbie Clemens. She was brought into the middle of his steroid controversy. She admitted to getting HGH shots from McNamee and now she is having to hear about an alleged affair between her husband and a country singer.

UPDATE: McCready Confirms Sexual Relationship with Roger Clemens

Alex Rodriguez and his wife Cynthia have announced the birth of their second daughter.  Cynthia gave birth to the baby girl in Miami on Monday night.  They have not announced a name for the baby girl yet.

Rodriguez, 32, was with his wife Cynthia, 34, as she gave birth to the couple’s second daughter, born Monday night in Miami, his team announced.

The baby, whose name has not been revealed, weighed 7 lbs., 2 oz., at birth, according to the Major League Baseball Web site.

The couple have a three year old daughter, Natasha.

Congrats to A-Rod, C-Rod, N-Rod and ?-Rod

Former MLB catcher John Marzano fell down a flight of stairs and to his death on Saturday in Philadelphia.

Unspeakably sad because the former catcher passed away at the age of 45 on Saturday after falling down a flight of stairs following a possible heart attack in his Philadelphia home. And ironic because it was at Fenway Park where the hard-working and personable former big league catcher broke in with the Red Sox in 1987.

Marzano was scheduled to cover the Red Sox Patriot’s Day game for MLB.com on Monday.  He played for Boston, Texas and Seattle during his 10-year Major League career.

A-Rod was attacked yesterday at Fenway Park in Boston.  The attack didn’t involve the Red Sox players or Yankees star Alex Rodriguez though.  A young teenage girl, Alexa Rodriguez, was attacked by a red-tailed hawk that went for her head and scratched it in the process.

She was touring Fenway Park on a school trip Thursday and was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from her scalp. Rodriguez wasn’t seriously hurt.

The hawk was perched on a railing in the upper deck behind home plate while the group toured the stadium. The hawk flew at the girl and swooped with its talons extended, scratching her scalp.

A bit freaky and scary for the young girl.  The Red Sox must have been training that hawk all season long and he probably got confused with the name being Alexa instead of Alex.

The best thing ever to happen to Boston Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz was not throwing a no-hitter last year as a rookie, but the fact that he is dating Penthouse Pet Erica Ellyson according to On 205th.

Rumor has it, based on something said on The Howard Stern Show, that Buchholz is dating Penthouse Pet of the Year Erica Ellyson. Of course, as With Leather points out after listening to the show, there was no mention of the Red Sox, so this may be a complete fabrication, which disappoints me and removes Clay Buchholz from favored status, but in no way stops me from posting pictures of said Pet of the Year.

Erica truly has a nastier curve than Clay.  I think it’s safe to say that Mr. Buchholz will experience a sophomore slump for sure this season.

Many More Pics of Erica

St. Louis Cardinals utility infielder Scott Spiezio is wanted by cops in Newport Beach on six charges from his arrest back in December. The charges are DUI, DUI with a BAC over .08, hit and run, aggravated assault, and assault & battery.

Spiezio is accused of leaving a bar on December 30, 2007 in Newport Beach, Calif. after a night of heavy drinking. He allegedly drove drunk, crossed several lanes of traffic, drove over a curb and crashed into a fence. Then, we’re told, he fled on foot.

Hopefully the Cardinals will cut their losses by cutting Spiezio. Scott took an absence of several weeks last year from the Cardinals to deal with substance abuse.

The biggest asset Spiezio brought to the team anyway was his smoking hot wife (photo). Scott literally had a full figure tattoo (see this photo) of her, Jennifer Pankratz, on his left bicep.

In one of the funniest pranks in Major League Baseball history, the Philadelphia Phillies traded pitcher Kyle Kendrick to Japan for Kobayashi Iwamura.  Of course trades between MLB teams and Japan are not allowed, but Kyle wasn’t aware of that.  His manager and agent were also in on the prank to make it seem legit.

Manager Charlie Manuel called the 23-year-old pitcher into his office and told him he had been traded to the Yomiuri Giants for a player named “Kobayashi Iwamura.” The ruse, expertly orchestrated by Brett Myers (who else?), worked so well that Kendrick was shocked into silence for most of the trick. Couldn’t even stop to realize that MLB and Japanese teams never swap players.

Brett Myers might be able to do ‘MLB Punk’d’ for MTV or MLB TV.

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ESPN.com is reporting that ‘Home Run King’ Barry Bonds failed a drug test in November of 2001 just weeks after setting the single season record of 73 home runs.

The news came from a legal filing in the perjury case against Bonds. It also stated that the steroids came from his trainer Greg Anderson.

The news comes a day after Roger Clemens denied using steroids and HGH on Capital Hill.

UPDATE:  The failed test actually took place in 2000 according to ESPN.

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2:48 pm - Rep. Tom Davis is speaking to conclude the day.  All of the questioning is done.  Davis says the Mitchell Report and it’s recommendations are good.  He thanks the witnesses for coming before the committee. Rep. Henry Waxman is giving his closing remarks.  Clemens interjects angrily about Pettitte’s memory.  Waxman gives special thanks to McNamee and apologizes for some of the comments/shots that his colleagues took at McNamee.  And the hearing is concluded and everyone is adjourned.  All in all four hours and forty-one minutes.

2:40 pm - Rep. Diane Watson asks both Roger and Brian about their opinions of the Mitchell Report.  McNamee says that education has to come from parents and coaches about illegal drug use.  He says the Mitchell Report is chapter one.  He says to educated the trainers, mothers, brothers, etc.

2:33 pm - Rep. Shays comes at McNamee hard calling him a drug dealer and asks McN if he is a drug dealer.  McNamee says that is his opinion.

2:24 pm - Rep. Elijah Cummings says he believes Andy Pettitte the most. Cummings asked why Pettitte said that Clemens had used drugs in 2003/4. Roger says he doesn’t know and that Andy didn’t tell him that he used HGH. Cummings has been one of the hardest on Clemens. Cummings pounds the fact that Pettitte and Knoblauch confessed to using HGH and why McNamee would lie about Clemens. Cummings is hanging his opinion on the honesty and character of Pettitte.

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Brian McNamee is telling congressional investigators that he injected Roger Clemens’ wife, Debbie Clemens, with Human Growth Hormone (HGH) back in 2003, before she posed in a bikini in Sports Illustrated with the ‘Rocket’.

Debbie Clemens appeared with her husband in a photograph taken in Central Park in the magazine’s Feb. 18, 2003 issue wearing a bikini and holding a bat over her shoulders while Roger Clemens reclined on the ground in his Yankee uniform.

“McNamee discussed his wife’s use before the committee,” according to the source. “She was trying to get in shape for the SI cover. He told them the story that Debbie took growth.”

McNamee testified that he injected her at Roger Clemens’ direction, according to the source.

Debbie had this to say about getting her body ready for the photo that appeared in SI and the New York Daily News.

“Roger came to me one day and told me that we had been asked to do a photo shoot for Sports Illustrated,” Debbie Clemens recalls. “I had major anxiety! I was a 39-year-old mother of 4! Once I realized that this WAS going to be a reality, I decided I had to give it everything I had.”

WOW!  This story is bigger than the WWE and All My Children mixed together on steroids!

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