I wish I was holding a Gatorade and making bank

Pinch yourself. It’s real.

The Yankees won’t play in the postseason for the first time since starting their impressive run in 1995. With five games left on New York’s roster — two at Toronto and three at Boston — the organization has decided to forego the duration of the season.

That’s right. Sources say construction will be sped up almost a week to tear down the legendary Yankee Stadium. And with good reason. Why prolong the inevitable?

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Yankees slugger Derek Jeter is an old-school type of player. He just broke Lou Gehrig’s hits record in Yankee Stadium to prove it.

Apparently Jeter is a little too old school, seeing how he disapproves of cell phones with cameras and all.

Maybe he’d change his mind if he had an iPhone that did this:

There are some things that go on in the world that you know about, but sort of just put it on the back burner until you actually get a grasp on the reality of the situation. We know that illegal immigrants come across the US borders but we’re blown away when we see the actual numbers. We know that elephants take massive dumps, but, again, we’re shocked to see the volume (though oddly enough, elephant crap can be recycled).

And, we know that Michael Jordan makes more from Nike that all Nike factory workers combined, but it isn’t eye-popping until we see some numbers or get some reports of the conditions that these workers are exposed to. Nike said Friday that one of its Malaysian factories has violated major worker rights violations, including filthy living conditions, garnished wages and withheld passports of foreign workers.

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“People make a big deal, obviously, because it’s Tampa.”

– Derek Jeter on the Yankees’ series with Tampa Bay.

Being a professional athlete doesn’t always get you the ladies. The best way to be a poon magnet, apparently, is to wear the American pinstripes. Ryan Parker has created a masterpiece: