We've learned a lot about Jason Giambi over the past few years. He's experimented with steroids and HGH throughout his career dating back to his Oakland days and aside from Barry Bonds, he's the one person baseball fans associate most with performance enhancing drug use. But the biggest secret of his professional baseball career was exposed several days ago: he wears a thong. Yeah, you read that right. Jason Giambi. Resident baseball badass. Unanimous choice as the hardest partyer in the game. Owner of 372 career home runs including three seasons of 40 plus and seven seasons of 30 plus. Oh yeah, and the guy wears underwear that nestles firmly between his steroid-enhanced butt cheeks. Gross.

The great Giambino told reporters from The Daily News that he resorts to wearing a golden thong when he's trying to break out of a slump. Baseball players have all sorts of unique quarks and superstitions, but this takes irrational behavior in baseball to a whole new level, a level most of us would have been happy never learning about. But for some reason, I'm not surprised in the least. I also wasn't surprised to learn that both Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon have also worn said undergarment in an attempt to utilize its mystical qualities. They may be in last place in the AL East with a 20-24 record, their coach and GM may unfairly be on the hot seat, and they may be owned and operated by two clueless brothers that think they know more than men who have devoted their lives to the game, but at least the Yankees appear to be very close and comfortable with each other in the clubhouse. That counts for something, just not a winning record in the MLB.