Seriously, ever since this woman was on TV, the Yankees went into the tank. Go west and get glammed up, Janice Soprano? (Then again, you can put a pig in a party dress, but, it’s still just a pig.)

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Hint: He’s under contract for the next five years with the New York Yankees at a salary around $23 million per year.

After a 20 year break in the series, Nash and Zullo are back and have released The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown. This new offering covers the zany, goofy, and wacky things in baseball from 1885 through 2011.

What I like most about this collection is that the authors aim to share the fun and true little known stories over the widely known ones.

Inauspicious debuts, wacky plate appearances, fielding fiascoes, practical jokes, post-season screw-ups, nutty habits and idiosyncrasies, hothead meltdowns, and undignified ballpark promotions are just some of the things that you’ll find covered with this book.

There’s something for every baseball fan in The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown.

Picking up on what I mentioned two years ago on this, 68 of those 120 have come with no outs.

So, two-thirds of Granderson’s career homeruns are solo homeruns and half of those have come with no outs. What does that tell you?

Major League Baseball has suspended Bob Davidson one game for “repeated violations of the Office of the Commissioner’s stanards for situation handling.”

While MLB says this is a culmination of several incidents (and they’re not wrong) it would appear Tuesday’s incident with Phillies manager Charlie Manuel put it over the top. Manuel was also suspended a game, but for just the one incident, not repeated violations.

Against the Astros, Davidson obstructed Philadelphia catcher Brian Schneider’s attempts to pick up a dropped third strike from Cliff Lee and then when he was confronted by Manuel, he had several choice words for the Phillies manager that any amateur lip-reader could easily make out.

Davidson has the reputation as one of the game’s worst umpires and has earned the nickname Balkin’ Bob because of his penchant for calling balks. Last season he ranked fourth on a players’ poll of worst umpires by Sports Illustrated.

While one game isn’t as much as we’d like to see Davidson get for his lack of professional behavior, it’s at least a start for what many fans see as the rising arrogance of Major League Baseball umpires. Sure, some will yell that he should be fired, but it’s at least a start.

Is this the first of more to come?

In any event, Russell Martin is trending towards Girardi or Molina territory with the bat this season.

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Can the Yankees afford that?

El Cañón de Juguete?

An off-duty NYPD cop ended up arrested Wednesday night for moving to a better seat at Citi Field, then refusing to budge when security cried foul.

Officer Eduardo Cornejo had a legit ticket to the Mets’ sad 6-3 drubbing by the Cincinnati Reds, but ballpark management confronted him once they realized he was stretched out in a seat better than the one he had purchased.

“He was in a section he wasn’t supposed to be,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. “They asked him to leave. He wouldn’t. [A] supervisor asked him to leave. He wouldn’t. The uniformed police sergeant asked him to leave. He wouldn’t, and he was arrested as a result.”

The obstinate 30-year-old was arraigned on criminal trespass charges Thursday and released.

When Cornejo and a woman arrived at his Staten Island home afterward, he was sporting a Mets cap.

“I’m sorry but I have no comment,” Cornejo said.

He works within the 67th Precinct in Brooklyn and has been with the NYPD since 2005.

Pretty stupid. This all could have been avoided if he just went back to his seat when asked.