Congrats to the New York Yankees, who clinched their 27th World Series Wednesday 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 both relevant to our media coverage AND a shameless attempt for getting linked across the Internet: let's compare the payroll differential between the Yankees and the Phillies as if they were media outlets. Fair? Balanced? I think so! (more...)

World Series! 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 basic mental capacity of Mr. Berra. At that time, though, in the mid-1980s, hating the Yankees was like someone today hating the Knicks. They're so terrible - why bother? (more...)