Alex Rodriguez is a dad to two kids, but on Father’s Day he spent the day with Kate Hudson and her son. Things with the two of them must be getting close, unless Kate just flew down to see A-Rod because she had nothing better to do.

Reportedly, Kate showed up at Florida Marlins stadium with son Ryder, then “then took place in a luxury suite for seven innings.” Now that’s the way to watch baseball!

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It seems that we’re always speculating about the loves lives of both Kate Hudson and Alex Rodriguez. Both of those good-looking, lucky folks have certainly had their share of romance. But will they ever settle down? And could they settle down with each other? Sigh…. that’s the question.

A-Rod and Kate Hudson are both denying they are an item (as per their usual M.O.) and yet still are seen locking lips and going places together. The latest incident of them hanging out together was Sunday night, where they were seen coming out of the 40/40 nightclub. They left separately. But sources say A-Rod brought Kate there to meet his teammates C.C. Sabathia and Mariano Rivera.

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Madonna… who? That’s the question Alex Rodriguez must be asking himself. After all, he’s apparently moved on to cutie Kate Hudson. The two met last November but Kate was snapped by photogs at A-Rod’s game.

Later, the two attended the Mustang Grill on Second Avenue, where the bartender was supposedly “asking patrons not to go in the back room around 1 a.m. because A-Rod and Kate Hudson were back there making out.”

Still another source caught them together over the weekend in the Central Park West area where A-Rod has an apartment.

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For the third straight game, the New York Yankees won via the walk-off. This time, Johnny Damon was the hero. His solo home run in the bottom of the tenth inning gave the Yankees a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins.

Overall, this is the Yankees fifth straight win. At 20-17, the Yankees are in third place in the AL West — 1.5 games back of the Boston Red Sox and 4.5 games back of the Toronto Blue Jays.

The other two runs the Yankees scored were on an Alex Rodriguez solo shot in the seventh and a Melky Cabrera sacrifice fly in the same inning.

For the Twins, this was a difficult loss to swallow. They had a 2-0 victory heading into the bottom of the seventh and lost it. The loss dropped the Twins to 18-20. Minnesota is now in third place in the AL Central, three games back of the Detroit Tigers.

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In his first at-bat this season after returning from hip surgery, Alex Rodriguez hit a homer. However, his batting average had dipped all the way to .136 entering Saturday’s game. In the bottom of the 11th inning, Rodriguez’s struggles were the last thing on his mind as he hit a two-run walk-off homer to beat the Minnesota Twins by a final count of 6-4.

That homer upped Rodriguez’s batting average to .154 and it was his first homer since his first at-bat. The win took the New York Yankees to 19-17 on the season. With the loss, the Twins dropped to 18-19.

Prior to the big hit by A-Rod, Mark Teixeira was the star for New York. He finished the ballgame 4-for-4 with one walk, two runs and four RBIs. His big hit was a three-run blast in the third inning.

The Twins got solo homers from their two big bats in the lineup - Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau. Mauer is now hitting .423 on the season, while Morneau is at .324.

These two teams will play again on Sunday afternoon and Monday night.

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If there’s an expert about whether or not someone deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, it is definitely Pete Rose. The former baseball superstar who was banned from the sport for betting on games is not eligible to be in the Hall of Fame. However, when questioned recently on “The Dan Patrick Show”, Rose says that he believes that Alex Rodriguez deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

Rodriguez, who has admitted to steroid use and has even more steroid allegation surrounding him, is almost a certain Hall of Famer. The only thing between Rodriguez and the Hall of Fame are those steroid allegations and Rose doesn’t believe they should keep him on the outside looking in.

Said Rose: “I’m willing to give a guy a second chance.”

Although Rose supports Rodriguez, he had some stern words for steroids in general.

“When you take steroids you have a direct outcome of the game,” said Rose. “That’s the integrity of the game and when you can change records when you do something illegal, it’s just not right.”

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Alex Rodriguez is under scrutiny once again. According the forthcoming book by Selena Roberts on A-Rod, Rodriguez hasn’t been truthful about his comments over the offseason regarding his steroids usage.

According to New York Daily News, in the book former teammates and other people around the game of baseball believe that Rodriguez began using steroids as early as high school. Additionally, the book hints that Rodriguez continued to use steroids after he was acquired by the New York Yankees. Rodriguez has maintained that he only used steroids while with the Texas Rangers over a two-year period.

There are a number of other allegations reportedly in the book, including that Rodriguez was “pitch tipping” in blowouts in hopes of getting favors from other players. When contacted, Rodriguez reportedly said that he didn’t want to get into specifics and denied to discuss the accusations in length.

The Yankees’ third baseman hasn’t played yet in the 2009 baseball season. He’s currently rehabbing from offseason hip surgery. Though he was originally scheduled to return on May 15th, he may be able to return sooner than expected.

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Mark your calendars for May 12th. That’s the date that the new “A-Rod book” comes out from Harper Collins. In the book, author Selena Roberts says Alex Rodriguez did steroids as far back as high school, and worse, that his coach at the time knew it.

The coach, Rich Hoffman, denies this.

One source says that the book, aptly titled A-Rod, “offers an unflattering portrait of the MVP slugger as a needy personality who wanted his ego stroked constantly.”

I doubt anyone cares about his big ego. Heck, we could figure that out by ourselves. The real issue is the use of steroids. I have to wonder if this is the only real revelation the book has. I’d like to think it has a lot more in it, but either way, I suppose we’ll find out in a couple of weeks.

Will you buy the A-Rod book?

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You’d think Alex Rodriguez would be lying low right now. After all, he’s recovering from hip surgery, and he’s got that nasty steroid thing about ready to wreck his reputation. But A-Rod wouldn’t be A-Rod if he was lying low! Instead, he’s posing for a groovy photo shoot for Details magazine.

Check out the photos here. Doesn’t the one where he’s face to face with the mirror look like he’s going, “You talking to me?”

Can’t you just see these photos up in the Yankees locker room?

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With the news of Ken Griffey, Jr. heading back home to the Seattle Mariners, that got us to thinking about other baseball reunions we’d like to see:

Manny Ramirez
After all the drama that went on in Boston last year, who wouldn’t pay money to see Ramirez back with the Red Sox.

Pedro Martinez
Since the Montreal Expos are dead, Martinez should sign with their remains … also known as the Washington Nations.

Sammy Sosa
Watching the Cubs just isn’t as fun without Sosa. Without roids he probably weighs about 125 these days but at least we’d get to see that famous home run celebrations at least a couple of times.

Joe Torre
After Torre’s book that is supposedly trashing the Yankees, it’d be awesome to see him back in New York. Hey, if Phil Jackson can write a book and then return, why not Torre?

Mark McGwire
McGwire and steroids should have a reunion. Watching him chase the home run record while juiced up was amazingly fun.

Alex Rodriguez
Whatever happened to Alex Rodriguez and Madonna. Supposedly there is an Alex Rodriguez and Madonna sex tape. That relationship was headed in the right direction.