These guys kicked butt back in ’53!

Brian Cashman is a slugger in the sack.

Alleged stalker Louise Meanwell told The Post in a jailhouse interview that the Yankees general manager may look like a nerd, but he’s a skilled swordsman who bedded her on their very first date last April.

“Surprisingly, yes, he was a good lover,” she said. “A lot of things about him surprised me.”

In a wide-ranging Rikers Island sit-down, the woman accused of pulling off a $6,000 squeeze play on Cashman also claimed:

* He first started flirting with her in 2006 — as his wife, Mary, stood nearby — then kept in touch for years by sending her text messages.

* The money Cashman dropped into her Chase accounts was a “birthday gift,” rather than cash she asked him for to finance a “medical procedure.’’

* Since April, he had given her $18,000 to $20,000 to pay the rent on her TriBeCa pad as well as legal fees for a custody fight over her 14-year-old daughter with her ex-husband, Jason Bump.

* He bought her a $1,300 Mulberry handbag and gave her four baseballs autographed by the Red Sox as a gift for her daughter.

The busty blonde said Cashman made his move almost immediately after meeting her in 2006 at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston.

“I wish my wife wasn’t here,” she said he whispered, with Mary Cashman in the same room. “You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

He handed Meanwell his business card and marveled at her British accent.

“I was 29 at the time, and I thought, ‘What a perv,’ ” she said.

The relationship that last week finally broke Cashman’s long-troubled marriage then simmered for years via texts, Meanwell said.

But she said she never saw Cashman again in person until he spotted her last April 6 during a rained-out Yankees-Twins game at the Stadium.

“He asked me when I was going to be at a game again, and I said it wasn’t going to be for a while,” she recalled. “So he said, ‘I really want to see you. I can come into the city.’ ”

The next night, Meanwell said, they went bar hopping at Cercle Rouge, the Bubble Lounge and South’s in TriBeCa before ending up between the sheets at her Leonard Street apartment.

She laughed at the memory of a bartender asking, “What are you doing with this old man?” when he spotted her out on the town with the balding baseball bigwig.

Manhattan prosecutors have subpoenaed Yankee general manger Brian Cashman’s bank records—which sources say include evidence that he coughed up as much as $20,000 to accused extortionist and purported mistress Louise Meanwell as far back as April, The Post has learned.

Those alleged payments raise the question of whether Meanwell was shaking Cashman down for nearly 10 months — or whether the big bucks were legitimate gifts as part of an affair, as she claims.

Cashman made “several” cash deposits in the range of $4,000 each into the British-born woman’s bank accounts over the last 10 months, a source close to the case told The Post.

Meanwell herself claims she received between $18,000 and $20,000 in the same time frame.

The records sought include handwritten deposit slips Cashman used to personally funnel money into Meanwell’s account.

“His handwriting is on those deposit slips, so there’s no way he can claim he wasn’t giving her this money,” said the source.

Meanwell’s bank records have also been subpoenaed.

And, then there is this also from the Post on the woman Brian Cashman choose to bring into his life -

Former targets of alleged serial stalker Louise Meanwell, men who all lived in the Albany area, said she won’t move on from her obsession with Yankee general manager Brian Cashman anytime soon.

“She’s not done with Cashman. She’s never done,” Meanwell’s former live-in boyfriend, David Sano, told The Post.

“You learn that about Louise. She’s ruthless.’’

The ominous prediction came as Sano recounted a wild, two-year ride with Meanwell that began as a 2001 one-night stand and spiraled into a nightmare that included claims of a pregnancy and abortion, a leaked sex tape, shredded clothing, slashed tires — and a prison stint for Sano after he pulled a knife on her in exasperation.

“She is the most conniving person I have ever met,” Sano said.

Two others — a successful Albany businessman who says Meanwell stalked him “for months” in 1999 and Jason Walker, once an aide to former Gov. George Pataki — echoed Sano.

“She is relentless,’’ said the businessman, whose name is being withheld.

“She was really intimidating and ingrained herself into my life.”

Meanwell, he said, cozied up to his pals at an Albany country club, staked out his home, bombarded him with e-mails and filled his answering-machine tape with messages before he hired a lawyer to stop her.

He described Meanwell as “a multiple personality, where one minute she was a nice, relatively normal person who [could] turn vindictive and evil at any point in time.”

“She was very, very persistent,” said Walker, who was working for Pataki when he dated Meanwell for two months in 2002. He said he bailed out because he couldn’t deal with her constant calls and demands for attention.

How many days until Pitchers & Catchers report?

And, now, he’s quoted in every news article that mentions the Yankees G.M. Brian Cashman.

He should be on the Yankees 40-man roster any day now…

YES Network television host Bob Lorenz has been charged with drunken driving in Connecticut where police say he was found passed out in his car in his hometown of Westport.

The 48-year-old Lorenz was arrested early Wednesday morning. Police say they found him slumped over the wheel of his car and when they woke him up he drove away slowly and nearly hit a utility pole. Officers say his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol.

Lorenz hosts pregame and postgame shows for the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets. He was arraigned Wednesday at Norwalk Superior Court and his case was continued to Feb. 29.

There’s no phone listing for Lorenz and it’s not clear if he has a lawyer. A Yes Network spokesman declined to comment.

And, then there’s this from the Daily News -

The woman accused of stalking and blackmailing Yankees GM Brian Cashman has injected steroids into the sordid mix.

From Rikers Island, Louise Meanwell claimed Wednesday that Cashman told her he misled federal investigators over what the Bombers’ brass knew of steroid use by players.

Meanwell, who claims she had an affair with Cashman, told the Daily News that Cashman confided to her that he was grilled in June or July by “the feds.”

She said Cashman told her he made it seem like the Yankees had no knowledge of players’ steroid use when, in fact, they did.

Cashman’s spokesman Chris Giglio vehemently denied the accusations.

“These claims are complete and utter fiction, the latest installment of a carefully concocted campaign of harassment now spewing from a jail cell by a person who is being held on serious criminal felony charges of harassment and extortion,” Giglio said.

A friend of Meanwell’s told The News he sent an email to federal investigators advising them of her claims.

The friend said he sent the email to Ron Gardella, chief investigator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and FBI agent Brian Jacob.

The email, obtained by The News, went on to say that Meanwell had “specific details” on dates and times that Cashman was aware of steroid use by players.

Both the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office refused to confirm or deny that Meanwell had informed them of her claims.

Cashman was on prosecutors’ witness list for Roger Clemens’ trial on perjury charges last July before Judge Reggie Walton declared a mistrial on the first day of the proceedings in Washington. Walton has scheduled a new trial for April.

I’m sure the Mets don’t mind the Yankees making the headlines with all this “stuff” and taking the spot-light off them and all their problems…

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So, who should bat 4th for the Yankees in 2012?