President Obama met with the New York Yankees today in the White House to commemorate their 2009 World Series title. The ceremony lasted roughly 20 minutes, and took place in the East Room.

Obama, a noted Chicago White Sox fan, joked that if his hometown team had famed Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, they “would have won more world titles.”

Today, the Yankees will get a ticker tape parade to celebrate their World Series win. One hundred years ago — in 1909 — a ticker tape parade made its way up Broadway celebrating a very different occasion — and very few millionaires were involved.

Congrats to the New York Yankees, who clinched their 27th World Series last night by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 7 to 3. The Yankees’ dominance of Major League Baseball is the stuff of legends. But let’s look at their success in a way that is relevant to our media coverage: let’s compare the payroll differential between the Yankees and the Phillies as if they were media outlets. Fair? Balanced? I think so!

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, [...]

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.