What Do the Late Night Mess and the Yankees Have in Common?

Truth to power? I've never been a regular late night comedy viewer. I've been to a live taping of Letterman once, but I've never played favorites with the late night hosts. I appreciate, say, that Jay Leno and David Letterman have wildly different senses of humor, but for me, both are funny for what they are. I've also enjoyed Conan O'Brien through the years, and I was happy for him, six years ago, when it was announced he would take over the Tonight Show in 2009. Not in any specific way -- it's not like I felt Jay was terrible and THANK GOD they were getting a new host. Just, it felt like he'd paid his dues, that Jay had had a good run, and that a transition had to happen someday, so good for us that it went to someone funny like Conan. I take it you're all broadly familiar with what's happening with NBC; to recap briefly, they wanted to shift Jay Leno's 10pm comedy show to 11:35pm, push Conan and the Tonight Show back to 12:05am, and push Ji...