We’re still getting a trickle of ‘A-Rod doesn’t matter’ emails, but we beg to differ. One of the best players in baseball is watching his divorce played out in the newspapers on a daily basis, and you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think this is going to eventually have an impact on his state of being.

* Private detectives and wiretapping? Big fun!

* Madonna, according to Page Six, is loving all this attention. With lines like this, we’re starting to buy into the theory that this was all concocted to blunt her brother’s book, which supposedly is quite damning.

* With everything else having failed, A-Rod held court with reporters for an hour yesterday and tried to bring the funny.