From via The FanHouse, which yours truly is a contributor, comes a story about how Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter just don't get along like they used to.
As position players reported to camp, A-Rod went around to reporters telling them about how their once great friendship between the two has fizzled into nothing....and he just doesn't know how it got that way.
From FanHouse colleague Matt Wilson:
A-Rod begrudgingly talked about their changing relationship this weekend: 
"We were best of friends about 10, 13, 14, years ago, and we still get along well. We have a good working relationship. I cheer very hard for him. He cheers hard for me. And most importantly, we're both trying to win a world championship," Rodriguez said.
What's changed? He made it sound as if they had just grown apart.
"The reality is there's been a change in the relationship over 14 years and, hopefully, we can just put it behind us," Rodriguez said. "You go from sleeping over at somebody's house five days a week, and now you don't sleep over. It's just not that big of a deal."
He's right: the fact they're no longer sleeping over at each other's house five days a week isn't a big deal ... but the admission that once upon a time they did? Well, that's a little ... interesting.
You gotta love it. It's just the first day back, and already A-Rod is whining. It's really a shame because [as this Sports Illustrated photo below from 1997 says] they were such great buds. I mean, they used to sleep over at each other's houses...and now they just don't have that kind of bond anymore.
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