It's always been a mystery why professional athletes even bother getting married, what with all the requisite groupie gallivanting. The latest superstar to show up on the cheat sheet is Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who was captured by a surreptitious NY Post photog while seemingly rounding third base in Toronto with a blonde.

The tab reported yesterday that the two had a fancy night on the town that culminated in a trip to a strip club and a night in A-Rod's hotel room. Today it comes out that they've run around together before, and that even when he's without the beefy blonde, Alex enjoys the strip clubs. But the real goods come from On The DL, a blog that specializes in salacious blind items about sports figures and calls itself "Page 6 ... but all about baseball," cooked up the following item that, by the time of publication, was anything but blind ...

Always Suspected ... Finally Confirmed: This married AL Super Star is not bashful about flaunting his current fling. She flies all over the country with him, with her parents in tow. So, inquiring On the DL fans want to know, what does she look like? Well, she is in her early 30s and is best described as a washed up stripper (familiar pattern with this guy). She is a buxom blonde (that definitely came by way of an infield assist), with plain features, which she does little to enhance. The team joke is that he wears more make-up than she does. Our joke is that a girl's boyfriend should never be prettier than she is.

On the DL did add a few other nuggets about A-Rod's alleged mistress: Her name is Jocelyn and she's been Alex's secondary squeeze for at least a few months now. While the slugger's wife may have just learned about his philandering ways and packed her bags, his teammates and the other lady's parents have been hip for some time. In the end, the real question seems to be: When you've got $250 million, as A-Rod is said to, does any of this really even matter?

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