re: The lack of stat keeping ESPN does for College baseball

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Aside from the fact there is very little market for college baseball, it's not as "TV friendly as basketball. A WBB game has much fewer variables than a baseball game. First, the game is played indoors. So barring something completely unexpected, the network, when planning their programming schedule, can be certain the game will go forward as scheduled. With baseball there is always the risk of weather delays/postponement. Two, basketball games are a bit easier to cover. You need a sideline camera in the pressbox and maybe 2 on the floor. That's it. Covering a baseball game probably requires a bit more infrastructure. Finally, basketball games have a relatively certain run time of approximately two hours. Baseball is variable. A game could run less than two hours...or it could go close to four. Again, the program directors like to have more certainty in their schedules.

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This is the biggest reason. It’s also why you see more gymnastics being broadcast now. The TV window is why softball gets more games on than baseball as well.

Outside of all those reason, the thing that annoys the shite out of me is when ESPN U or the SEC network is running reruns of a talking head show or documentary on a Tuesday night during baseball season when they could be showing a mid week game they’re already producing for the streaming avenue.