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According to a report in today’s New York Post, former Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson is not Alex Rodriguez:

Jackson was strolling with his 17-year-old daughter, Kimberly, when he insisted that Schwartzwald and another photographer who joined the scene identify the attractive young woman so no one got the wrong idea.

“Hey, make sure you tell them that’s my daughter, you guys. I’m not A-Rod” the slugger-turned-comic quipped.

“That’s my daughter, that’s not my girlfriend! I’m not A-Rod here!”

The excerpt is buried under a lengthy story detailing whether Reggie Jackson likes Jews — up for debate — but the big news here is that maybe Reggie knows something we don’t. My understanding was that A-Rod is going for really old women, not really young ones. That’s Roger Clemens’ turf.

The other part of this story that intrigues us is the bit about Reggie’s daughter being attractive. We assume Reggie has a hot wife, so that makes sense, and we hope that his daughter can pull off the mustache as well as dad could.

This time, it still counts. Why? Well, because Bud Selig was so embarrassed by a tie in 2002 that he decided the All-Star Game would decide which league gets home-field advantage in the World Series.

Obviously, that’s just about the dumbest idea anyone’s ever had. Why hasn’t anyone considered, I don’t know, the team with the best regular season record? No no, it’s the team whose league won the All-Star Game. You know Nate McLouth’s really going to go all out on Tuesday so he can make sure his National League brethren get that Game 7 at home. Makes perfect sense.

And of course, all that nonsense gives FOX what it needs to add ridiculous gravitas to the All-Star Broadcast. Presidential elections, steroids scandals, floods, famines, fires — step aside! Yield to an exhibition baseball game!

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