The Yankees contacted the visiting clubhouse manager of every stadium where they play and asked that the candy and ice cream be removed before the team comes to town. The clubhouse in Tampa Bay replaced all the candy with nuts, dried fruit and granola. It was hilarious to watch as guys smuggled in candy bars and ate them furtively at their lockers.

It's easy to picture this if you think of Joba Chamberlain as Hurley from Lost.

Other ways you know the Yankee candy ban is serious:

• Instead of cork, hollowed-out bats now contain Reese's Pieces.

• Mussina doctoring pitches with chocolate hidden under brim of cap.

• Peppermint jocks.

• Steinbrenner laying off Oompa Loompas right and left.

• Jason Giambi tests positive for nougat.

Eat Healthy, Play Better? [LoHud Yankee Blog]

Want another testimonial? "It's got chopped up Viagra in it," Portis said. " I'm telling you, it's an aphrodisiac." Now before anyone gets all worked up, Portis was joking. But it's worth noting, again, that the Web site has some incredible copy writers. A new interactive site will launch sometime in the spring; the current site, to give just one small example, asks consumers to "try not to tear the part of the wrap with the bar code as you rush to rip open your smack bars and unleash the chocolate ecstasy onto your tongue."

To which we ask the musical question: You Smackin' it?

Smack: You've Never Tasted Anything Like This [DC Sports Bog]
Hall Of Fame Inductee: Vikings Sex Boat [Deadspin]