Just when you thought that the Yanks might actually be getting their groove back, more news about A-Rod.

Awesome.

Oh, nothing too surprising.  Just speculation from the new Selena Roberts book that — surprise, surprise — he wasn’t totally forthcoming about his use of performance enhancing drugs after all.

At the moment, with A-Rod such a safe distance from the clubhouse, the news doesn’t stand to have too much of a damaging impact on our day-to-day operations.  However, the Roid is reportedly making his way up north in ten or so days.  Which is — surprise, surprise — only a couple days before Selena’s book is due to hit the shelves.

It’s like the guy was just born with impeccable timing.

True, our boys have only won two in a row, and it’s hardly what you’d call the streak of the century.  True, also, that conventional wisdom suggests that we need A-Rod’s bat in our lineup more than we need his drama out of our clubhouse.  Still, call me crazy, but I’d be lying if I said that I was waiting with bated breath for his arrival.

We all know that the book is going to be filled with a lot of unflattering crapelbon about A-Roid, and we all know that he’s going to have to respond by giving some kind of press conference in a little blue sweater.  After that, Johnny Damon’s going to have to respond by saying that whatever A-Roid supposedly did wasn’t as bad as murder, Derek Jeter’s going to have to convince everyone he doesn’t really hate A-Roid, Mark Teixeira’s going to have to say, “Well, gee whiz, I would never do that kind of thing, but people make mistakes.”

And suddenly we’re not talking about baseball anymore.  Funny how quickly the best player in baseball can get you not talking about baseball.

In any event, I’ll try not to sweat it for now.  I’m going up to the Bronx tonight for a little bit of exclusive coverage.  I’m working on a theory that Swisher has somehow recently found a way to acquire what those of us Heroes geeks like to refer to as abilities. I’ll let you know if I’m able to get some confirmation on that.