Sportsfrog.com

• It takes a lot of beer to be a fat toad. Twenty in fact.

Former New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu was arrested Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a bartender after drinking 20 mugs of beer, a police official said.

Irabu, 39, became angered after his credit card was rejected. He then allegedly pushed the bartender against the wall, pulled his hair and smashed at least nine liquor bottles at a bar in Osaka, western Japan, a police official said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

The bartender sustained no injuries. Irabu paid the bill with another credit card.

If he had only shown that kind of passion on the mound.

• The last winner of the baseball’s Triple Crown had a triple bypass.

The greatest living Red Sawx player, New England icon Carl Yastrzemski, underwent emergency triple-bypass surgery yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital after being diagnosed with coronary artery disease.

• As the pressure was building, as Saturday approached, the fragile coward found a new way to avoid taking the mound. Carl “Paycheck” Pavano has a stiff neck, which may prevent him from pitching on Saturday. Now if we can just break his fingers so he can never endorse another paycheck, now that, would be a worthwhile injury.

• Umpires get instantly pissed.

Umps said their governing board voted Tuesday to boycott a conference call with management intended discuss implementing replay, angry that their concerns aren’t being addressed.

• Watch out teenage girls in the Cincy area. Chris Henry is back in town.

Receiver Chris Henry is back with the Cincinnati Bengals because their owner has a soft spot for troubled players.

Henry signed a two-year deal Tuesday with the team that let him go after he was arrested for the fifth time, a decision that seemed to mark a change in philosophy for owner Mike Brown. Instead, it was an aberration. The Bengals took him back at Brown’s behest.

Coach Marvin Lewis, who had no interest in bringing back the troubled receiver, said Brown wanted to give Henry yet another chance.

I say bullshit. The only soft spot Mike Brown has is in his frontal lobes. As far as following in his father’s footsteps Brown makes Pete Rose, Jr. look like a major league all-star. If Ocho Cinco doesn’t go over the middle and give full effort in a pre-season game, thereby separating his shoulder, Chris Henry would still be pounding down 40’s and smoking blunts outside the nearest high school.

• Why are wide receivers the whiny little girls of the NFL? About once a week we hear about a wideout, wanting to be traded, not being thrown to, being thrown to over the middle too much, having to block on running plays….. This particular situation may not be indicative of my stereotype, because the coach sounds like anything but a Mensa member.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin asked to be traded, saying he doesn’t feel his situation can be resolved and declaring he has no relationship with coach Ken Whisenhunt.

“I’m a football player. That’s about it,” Boldin said Tuesday when asked to characterize his dealings with the coach these days.

A team spokesman said the Cardinals have no plans to trade the sixth-year standout and still hope to sign him to a contract extension.

Whisenhunt sounded puzzled when discussing reports that Boldin had said he was no longer speaking to the coach.

“We’ve been communicating,” he said. “If communicating is talking, that’s what we have been doing at practice. As we go forward, I don’t know. I don’t foresee anything changing. If it does, it’s in his court.”