re: LSU Clarifies Television Decision for NCAA Regional

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How does this grow the sport? There will be shitty programming on the ESPNs on tv while college baseball can only be found streaming online. I fail to see how it will reach a larger audience.

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This has nothing to do with growing the sport. ESPN could care less about the sport. They are trying to grow exposure to all of the stuff available on ESPN3. There are a lot of sports on ESPN3 and they want more hits on that site.

Let's say you've never been to ESPN3. You go there to watch the LSU baseball game. While looking for it, you see that they also show Aussie Rules Football. You remember one time you were up at 3AM and turned on ESPN back in the dday and saw an aussie fb match and loved it cause it was just nuts. So now, you may return to ESPN3 later to watch aussie Fb.

That is what ESPN is attempting here.