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Tell your friends! Tell yourself! Because everyone needs a little Yankees in their day. Why, you ask? I just so happen to have a list:

1. Yanks Amazed by White House Tour

"BALTIMORE -- The Yankees' tour group was about to set up for a photo opportunity on the White House's South Lawn on Tuesday, when 7-year-old Sasha Obama dashed to her jungle gym with two blocky Secret Service agents in tow.

In a flash, the Yankees' cameras were holstered, as the group was ushered off to a more restricted area."

I can't decide whether this is Sasha Fierce pwning the Yankees or the Yankees being awesome and probably fangirling the youngest Ms. Obama. Either way, I would like to vote for Nick Swisher as Sasha's new babysitter. Because he's one of the best things about baseball right now.

2. Nick Swisher gets the first on-camera kiss in the New Yankee stadium! This video should be rewatched dozens of times to be fully appreciated. If you want to skip to 1:40 and just keep replaying it, you can tell how Swisher's face lights up when A.J. Burnett walks into his view and he knows something's up and then Burnett kisses him and Swish erupts with manly giggles and cheek wiping for PR. Look, Swisher is #33 and Burnett is #34. It's meant to be! Cute, squishy fielder and lanky, tattooed pitcher. [cue disney love theme]

3. Derek Jeter is the Captain Tight Pants of baseball



4. The Yankees once shared a hotel with a Furry convention.

Most of the players were a little taken aback - Alex Rodriguez was telling Derek Jeter how he got caught in an elevator with nine hissing cats, and thought they might start scratching him -- but Jason Giambi absolutely loved it. Big shocker there. If the Yankees didn't have to get out of town tonight, you get the feeling the Big G would hang out for another night and join the fun.

"Those people are awesome," he said. "Awesome."

(I know Giambi is no longer ours but he was when he encountered furries and that's what matters here.)

5.

Closer Mo Rivera and Catcher Jorge Posada play...well, the Newlywed Game. And Derek Jeter takes the last cookie off the plate.