A-Rod Links and Other Links Before Bed

-This woman really needs to get over A-Rod. Sounds like it could be the "single white female" syndrome that Joe Torre describes.

-So, as Peter Gammons pointed out, it seems that we should have known about this PED problem quite a while back. Here is the whole article with a really interesting passage:

… 'A few pills -- I take all kinds -- and the pain's gone,' says Dennis McLain of the Detroit Tigers. McLain also takes shots, or at least took a shot of cortisone and Xylocaine (anti-inflammant and painkiller) in his throwing shoulder prior to the sixth game of the 1968 World Series -- the only game he won in three tries. In the same Series, which at times seemed to be a matchup between Detroit and St. Louis druggists, Cardinal Bob Gibson was gobbling muscle-relaxing pills, trying chemically to keep his arm loose. The Tigers' Series hero, Mickey Lolich, was on antibiotics… 'We occasionally use Dexamyl and Dexedrine [amphetamines] … We also barbiturates, Seconal, Tuinal, Nembutal … We also use someanti-depressants, Triavil, Tofranil, Valium … But I don't think the use of drugs is as prevalent in the Midwest as it is on the East and West coasts,' said Dr. I. C. Middleman, who, until his death last September, was team surgeon for the St. Louis baseball Cardinals.

-Jayson Stark looks at some supposed NFL Steroid Era. Good thing that never happened.

-This will definitely be the weirdest story you see involving Andy Phillips...whether it's really him or not.

-500 pounds of pot was found on rapper Fabolous' tour bus. 500 POUNDS. F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S.

-In other rapper news, it seems that Xzibit is outing P. Diddy as gay. Now that "Every Breath You Take" tribute to Biggy looks a little odd.

-A behind-the-scenes look at the Yankee pro scouting department.

-Some bad 4Q08 financials today: Target down 41%, Macy's down 59% Office Depot lost $1.54 BILLION, home prices with a record annual decline, and consumer confidence and home prices plummeted. At least I saved some money by switching to Geico so that annoying fucking stack of money with googly eyes stops following me around.

-So it ends up that the laid off Microsoft workers will get to keep their undue severance. Nice world

-Google said sorry

-I don't believe this one for a second.

-Found on Twitter: John Mayer's record collection and Kevin Pollak's first venture into YouTube (with funny Christopher Walken and William Shatner impersonations):