If there’s one thing we in the media know, it’s that all reporters are actually deviant exhibitionists. It’s true. None of them actually care about journalism or “the story.” They just care about parading around showing off their sexy bodies to famous people, foreign diplomats, and local police chiefs. And sports reporters are the worst. That’s why Major League Baseball has been forced to enact a new dress code keeping reporters from showing everyone their underwear.

With tonight’s MLB All-Star Game set in Arizona, organizers decided to use the opportunity to honor and showcase one of the state’s most beloved heroes, the young intern that saved Rep. Gabrielle Giffords‘ life during last January’s fatal shooting. Before tossing out the first pitch, Daniel Hernandez sat down for a chat with Shepard Smith on the opportunities before him since the incident, how he and other victims are coping, and moving forward for Arizona.

CNN’s John King will forever be a part of baseball history. The John King, USA anchor was able to gracefully catch masterfully roundhouse kick his rivals in an effort to catch the ball from Red Sox player David Ortiz‘s 300th career home run.

King Tweeted about the catch, crediting his physical prowess and dogged determination.

Behind the scenes at the New York sports television network SNY, there are apparently some fans of the Fox comedy Family Guy. As the Mets players walked off the field after losing their opening day game, an audio clip from the funny cartoon mocking the Mets strangely played during the SNY broadcast.

Rush Limbaugh‘s style is so often confrontational that it takes a few seconds to get used to him when he has nice things to say about the object of his commentary. Today, he had nothing but praise for the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a “cracker who made a lot of African-American millionaires.”

After being robbed of what is considered to be a legendary achievement in baseball, it must be hard to come up with words to express the feeling. That was overt this afternoon in Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga, who was deprived of a perfect game by an umpire mistake Commissioner Bud Selig refused to amend.

April 4 is Major League Baseball’s opening day, with the World Champion New York Yankees playing the always dangerous Boston Red Sox at 8p in Fenway Park. The New York Mets open the following day, with a home game against the Florida Marlins. We’ve dug deep into our archives to present some great baseball magazine covers to celebrate the start of the season. See more after the jump, and view the full list here.

Criticism of cultural immaturity is all the rage lately, with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg and Newsweek’s Evan Thomas both trying their hand at it recently. But another immaturity critique in this week’s Newsweek, this one by George Will, stands out – unfortunately, it does so for the wrong reasons.

Yes, the newspaper industry, as we are all far too familiar, is in critical health. And maybe people are less interested in baseball, for whatever reason ($10 hot chocolate at Yankee Stadium may have something to do with that). Or maybe the country has just discovered a new national pastime. Namely, politics.

I was maybe 10 when my father handed me a bible, a tome that encapsulated the fundamental tenets of our religion. It was called The Yankee Hater’s Handbook. A masterpiece of framing, it armed me with any number of responses to claims of the greatness of the team, the excellence of Mssrs. DiMaggio and Maris, [...]

When we hear talk about the mainstream media spending more time fact-checking, we don’t usually think of baseball. But that’s exactly what it meant for Keith Olbermann, who chimed in about a front-page New York Times article from Friday’s paper about a newly surfaced piece of home video showing Babe Ruth at bat and striking out while Lou Gehrig waits on deck at Yankees Stadium.

The real star of Yankees baseball this season? New York City congressman Anthony Weiner. When ESPN tried to switch the start time of a nationally televised September 27th Yankees match-up with the Boston Red Sox, Weiner sent a letter to baseball commissioner Bud Selig requesting the game be moved to avoid conflicting with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.