11.02.09 CENTAURS > INVISIBLE THIRD BASEMEN

Johnny Damon’s double-steal in Game 4 helped catalyze a big four-run ninth inning for the Yankees–and a 3-1 World Series lead against the Phillies. But all I can think about is A-Rod’s image of a centaur that supposedly hangs over his bed. It’s just…bizarre. If dude has that in his bedroom and looks at that every day, there really isn’t much that the New York media can do to him…except follow him around while he tries to copulate.

The Yankees slugger is reportedly such an egomaniac that he placed paintings of himself depicted as a centaur — a mythical creature who is half-man, half-horse — over his bed, an ex-girlfriend said.
“He was so vain,” the unidentified A-Rod lover told Us Weekly. “He had not one but two painted portraits of himself as a centaur.”–NY Post.

There are great depictions of the alleged portrait here, here and here, and you should be able to figure out what a centaur is from that. Although if Kate Hudson gets down with that sort of thing, it must work for something…