'He's Probably With Some Blonde in the Bathroom'

Nice little zinger on Alex Rodriguez from author Gay Talese. What's also amusing is the New York paparazzi apparently is more interested in snagging photos of the Yankee third baseman and his latest paramour than they are with the clown VPOTUS.

Cameron Diaz met Alex Rodriguez at Serafina on East 61st Street yesterday. But after she left alone -- to try to prevent paparazzi from getting a shot of the couple together -- Gay Talese emerged. Asked by the paps about A-Rod's whereabouts, the author quipped, "He's probably with some blonde in the bathroom."

Meanwhile, Secret Service agents closing the street for the arrival of VP Joe Biden at the nearby Regency Hotel were unhappy to find the lensmen in wait. Our spy said, "The agents asked them to move. It was comical to see the cameramen didn't care about the vice president -- they wanted A-Rod."

'Our Paths Have Crossed Both Personally and Professionally'

The tabloid fodder just never ends with this guy.

The Manhattan madam linked to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer claims she had a "connection" and "flirtation" with scandal-scarred Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.

Kristin Davis, who says she met the third-baseman at a Philadelphia gym in 2005, told the Post that: "our paths have crossed both personally and professionally," and that "there was a flirtation there."

"I'm not going to deny there was a relationship there," said the 32-year-old blond bombshell, who ran high-class call girl service Wicked Models.

"Let's just say there's some sort of connection there."

Davis, who is on probation for five years after copping a plea to promoting prostitution, said she hasn't seen Rodriguez, in a year or two.

When asked if the Yankee patronized her escort agency, Davis, who said she likes Latin men, would only say that they had a "professional" relationship.

Mirror, Mirror On the Wall

Dude. Talk about self-infatuation.

Nothing gets between A-Rod and his mirror!

Troubled slugger Alex Rodriguez gets up close and personal - with himself - in a one-man love affair photographed and published in the upcoming Details magazine.

The mag captures A-Rod's essence, with pictures of him smooching his own reflection, stretching his toned muscles on a bare mattress and brooding seductively for the camera.

Rodriguez wore Calvin Klein T-shirts and tank tops for the spread, evocative of the designer's sexy, envelope-pushing ads.

Despite being one of the most recognizable men in the city, A-Rod told Details - in an issue that hits newsstands a week from today - that he enjoys taking the subway to Yankee Stadium, usually on Fridays.

Sure he does. Just hanging out with the regular people.

'He's An Unsavory Character'

Just when you thought the whole A-Roid brouhaha was about to die down, here comes another potentially damaging revelation of a known steroid dealer who traveled with the Yankee slugger all throughout 2007. I was getting the feeling there was some piling on going on earlier this week, but if this story proves true, this will dog Rodriguez for a long time.

Embattled Yankee Alex Rodriguez has had a long relationship with a steroid-linked trainer who's been banned from major league clubhouses, four independent sources told the Daily News.

Angel Presinal, who was banned from private areas of every MLB ballpark after an October 2001 incident involving an unmarked gym bag full of steroids, has been tight with the Yankee slugger dating back to his time with the Texas Rangers, several sources said.

A former New York-area scout says Presinal, whose named surfaced in the Mitchell Report, was with Rodriguez in New York and Miami as recently as this past fall.

MLB has warned players to stay away from him.

"He's an unsavory character," said a source.

Another source said Presinal accompanied A-Rod for the entire 2007 season, staying in the same hotel as the A.L. MVP, but in a separate room with the "cousin" Rodriguez pegged three days ago as his steroid source from 2001-03.

The cousin was identified Thursday as Yuri Sucart.

The source said Rodriguez avoided being seen in public with Presinal.

"He was around Alex in 2007," the source said of Presinal. "Every hotel they went to, he stayed in the same room with Yuri. You would never see Alex with [Presinal]. They would meet in one of their rooms."

Alex Rodriguez Clearly Distracted by Steroid Revelations

It won't be long until this guy tests positive for Viagra.

Hours before a bombshell report revealed that he took steroids, Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez wasn't sweating - he was snuggling, squeezing and otherwise savoring two smoking-hot women in a Bahamas nightclub.

These exclusive photos show Rodriguez partying - seemingly without a care in the world - at the Aura Club at the Atlantis Resort early last Saturday.

And, boy does that buxom brunette on his lap look comfy.

Less than two days before, in Miami, Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts had confronted A-Rod at a gym, and asked the slugger about his having tested positive for two forms of steroids in 2003 while playing with the Texas Rangers.

But instead of hunkering down at his Miami home to await SI breaking the bad news, Rodriguez jetted to the Bahamas, where he stayed on Paradise Island on Friday.

He showed up the Aura Club with the aforementioned brunette and - just to balance things out - a red-hot blonde.

"The girls said they had come down with A-Rod from the US," said an eyewitness. "They were dancing in front of him and even kissing each other to entertain him. He seemed to like the brunette more."

Shocka! A-Fraud Tested Postivie for Steroids

For a guy who's probably already the most loathed man on baseball, this surely can't help an image already in ruins. Can't wait to see how the fans in Boston react the first time he bats at Fenway this season.

In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.

Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's '03 survey testing, SI's sources say. As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.

When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results. "You'll have to talk to the union," said Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman since his trade to New York in February 2004. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything."

You suppose the Yankees regret keeping this guy around?

Now You Too Can Be a Jocksniffer: Authentic Game-Used Underwear for Sale

A little something for that truly devoted fan in your life. A true sign of the apocalypse.

Got a Yankees fan on your Christmas list? Or maybe a Red Sox groupie you want to aggravate? Well, why just buy them an A-Rod shirt when you can get Alex Rodriguez’s authentic game-used underwear????

Now there’s a gift that keeps on giving!

Phil Castinetti of SportsWorld in Saugus has gotten his mitts on some All-Star undies - A-Rod’s, Kevin Youkilis and Josh Beckett’s - and he’s selling them on eBay starting today.

So, Phil, are the Major League unmentionables actually game-used?

“Oh, they’re used,” he said.

Ew.

BTW, A-Rod’s UnderArmor is size XL. But since he’s dating Madonna you already knew that.

Now Phil doesn’t want to divulge how he procured the panties but we are told that at the end of the season the Sox clean out the Fenway lockers and throw out all the abandoned stuff. Which is promptly retrieved by some enterprising dumpster divers!

Brainwashed? More Like a Light Rinse

Not exactly something you might want on your resume, being brainwashed by Madonna.

Alex Rodriguez's heartbroken wife Cynthia believes her hubby has been "brainwashed" by kabbalah-pushing pop icon Madonna and lured away from his family, an A-Rod confidant said yesterday.

In a bombshell interview with The Post, Dodd Romero - Rodriguez's former trainer and godfather to his two daughters who spent last week in Paris with Cynthia Rodriguez - said he and C-Rod believe the Yankee superstar has been gradually drawn away by Madonna's allure.

"Alex, God bless him, is lost," A-Rod's ex-pal lamented. "I think he got pulled in by the dark side, if you can say that nicely. He's totally brainwashed."

Meaningless Celebrity News

A-Rod's wife dumps him. Ten weeks after giving birth, the baby is in Miami and she's cavorting around Paris with Lenny Kravitz.

He's out at home!

Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez's marriage is kaput, sources told The Post.

A-Rod's wife, Cynthia, has been shacked up with rocker Lenny Kravitz in Paris.

The couple's two daughters - 3-year-old Natasha and 2-month-old Ella - remained in Miami, sources said.

The stunning news emerged a day after revelations that Alex Rodriguez has been paying late-night visits to Madonna's Upper West Side apartment.

The game of musical celebrity beds has effectively ended the randy Rodriguez's already-shaky marriage, even though divorce papers have not been filed, sources said.

Cynthia Rodriguez, 34, has been in Paris for at least the past four days visiting Grammy-winner Kravitz.

C-Rod was seen outside the 44-year-old Kravitz's pad in the romantic City of Light as recently as Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, A-Rod has been in New York with the Bronx Bombers, reading headlines about his numerous visits to Madonna's Upper West Side apartment, which were first reported by Us Weekly on Tuesday.

Pride of the Yankees

Ugh. Say it ain't so.

Us Weekly reports in its new issue, on newsstands tomorrow, that Madonna's seven-year marriage to Guy Ritchie has stalled out – and the singer has been hosting late-night visits from New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez at her Central Park West apartment in New York City.

A ringless and grim-faced Ritchie, 39, arrived in New York City from London yesterday after several weeks apart from his family. A source tells Us that the $28-million-a-year Rodriguez, 32, has made numerous solo nighttime visits to Madonna, 49, at her spacious home and would sneak out "as late as midnight." Says the source, "All the doormen are talking."

I guess his marriage vows are just a nuisance.

If he's going to stray, he sure could do better.

Overrated First Ballot Hall-of-Famers

You have to just chuckle over these anonymous polls.

Derek Jeter was voted the most overrated player in baseball in a Sports Illustrated poll of over 495 major leaguers. Not surprisingly, both the Yankees New York Yankees captain and his manager could not care less.

Joining him on this dubious list was teammate Alex Rodriguez.

In the survey to be released in the June 23 issue, the Yankee shortstop got 10 percent of the vote. Teammate Alex Rodriguez was tied with Boston outfielder J.D. Drew for third with 7 percent.

Oddly enough, Jeter and A-Rod are so worthless, these same players would choose them to build a team around.

But in a clear case of opinions-are-like-you-know-what, when Sports Illustrated did a survey of "Whom would you pick to build your team around" just a week earlier, Rodriguez finished first and Jeter second. Make up your minds, fellas.

Professional jealousy, it appears, leaves many major leaguers very confused.

Pride of the Yankees Crumbles in the Clutch

We're all used to Alex Rodriguez coming up small in the postseason. Who knew his knees would also turn to jelly in the delivery room? Good Lord, man up already.

Alex Rodriguez passed out during the birth of his 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 Yankees star, said on an episode of the YES Network's "YESterdays" scheduled to air tonight.

"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?' "

Red Sox and A-Rod haters fans are sure to have a field day with this.

Meanwhile, speaking of Red Sox fans and on a more somber note, that psychopath who mowed down the Sox fan the other day is a really big fan of you-know-who.

The boozed-up Yankee fan from hell who ran over and killed a Red Sox supporter last week had a crush on Derek Jeter and a living room dominated by Pinstripe regalia.

A neighbor of Ivonne Hernandez, 43, who was charged with murder for allegedly running down Matthew Beaudoin in her Dodge Intrepid in Nashua, said the Bronx-bred fan loved the handsome shortstop.

Seems her interest in the Yankees was fleeting.

"When it comes to baseball, she didn't know much," the woman said. "The neighbors would give her hell. It was jokeable fun."

It would be a nice gesture, be it done privately or publicly, if the Yankees helped the Beaudoin family.

A-Rod Crawling Back to Yankees?

That's all the buzz in the New York area this afternoon.

Alex Rodriguez has come crawling back to the Yankees. It's a huge defeat for self-professed superagent Scott Boras as well as yet another failure of nerve in crunch time for the most controversial player in Major League Baseball.

A-Rod has contacted his once-and-perhaps-future team about negotiating a new deal. One report said the Yankees are willing to talk to him with a couple of “ifs” the size of the Matterhorn attached: He’s got to take less money than he was making on his celebrated $25.2-million-a-year deal, and he can’t bring the Boracious agent into the negotiating room with him.

“Alex is going to be back with the Yankees,” one of the sources reportedly told the New York Daily News.

He wasn't going to get the absurd $350 million floated by Scott Boras and if he comes back at anything less than $30 million per--which was virtually assured him given his numbers in 2007--then the Yankees come out huge winners in the deal.

Let's just hope some year he shows up in October.

So Long, Farewell, Enjoy Your Money

It's all about A-Rod.

DLTDHYOTWO, you greedy SOB.

Not content to make outrageous sums of money and never produce in the post-season, he decides to try and steal a little thunder from the Red Sox.

What a jerk.

“I got a call from Alex tonight, and he is going to opt out," Scott Boras, Rodriguez's agent, told The Post last night during Game 4 of the World Series. “He was just too unsure with new ownership talking about a transition where the organization is going right now. He is not sure what is going to happen with [free agents] Mariano [Rivera] and [Jorge] Posada, and if Andy Pettitte is coming back. He needs more time to assess where the Yankees are going in the future."

Yes, well those three will likely show loyalty to the Yankees and re-sign shortly. As for Rodriguez, if it was all about winning, he'd never have gone to Texas in the first place.

BTW, congratulations are in order for the Boston Red Sox, who are now 8-2 in their last 10 World Series games.