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re: MLB and ESPN agree to end broadcast partnership after 2025 season
Posted on 2/20/25 at 9:26 pm to Dale Murphy
Posted on 2/20/25 at 9:26 pm to Dale Murphy
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Baseball is dying
Tired, uninformed take.
Baseball is awesome and will overtake shitty NBA soon.
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Posted on 2/20/25 at 9:51 pm to Lsuhoohoo
MLB is a product nobody wants and nobody watches. I genuinely don't know how the league doesn't become Hockey with the collapse of regional networks and now the loss of ESPN.
One national FS1 deal ain't gonna pay all those salaries.
One national FS1 deal ain't gonna pay all those salaries.
Posted on 2/20/25 at 9:55 pm to SpartyGator
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Joe Morgan tyfys
Jon Miller and Joe Morgan made national TV baseball.
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:01 pm to Basura Blanco
They were great.
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:01 pm to Dale Murphy
quote:
Baseball is dying
You’re an idiot lol
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:02 pm to Jack Ruby
News flash. Hockey is better than baseball…
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:03 pm to Dale Murphy
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:09 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Can this somehow lead to the Braves being back on TBS???
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:35 pm to RummelTiger
Only if WGN comes along too
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:38 pm to Schmelly
Agreed
Posted on 2/20/25 at 11:03 pm to SammyTiger
quote:What changss for college baseball? Their season still overlaps with NHL, NBA, and MLB. The College World Series will be going on at the same time as the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals.
wonder if College Baseball can capitalize off this.
Get more air time during the year in national TV when other sports are off.
Only thing that would really change is a Sunday night time slot is open. How many college baseball games are on Sunday nights? If anything, ESPN probably tries to add another NBA game in that spot
Posted on 2/20/25 at 11:07 pm to Indefatigable
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Well yea, ESPN has become the professional basketball drama network
Basketball and Cowboys drama network
Posted on 2/20/25 at 11:18 pm to Lsuhoohoo
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As of December 2024, ESPN was available in 53.6M homes, down from its peak of over 100M homes in 2011 and 69M homes when we struck the current deal in 2021
Posted on 2/20/25 at 11:23 pm to Tiger Prawn
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What changss for college baseball? Their season still overlaps with NHL, NBA, and MLB.
ESPN won’t show MLB.
they may want to fill those holes with baseball
Posted on 2/21/25 at 12:07 am to SammyTiger
Sunday Night Baseball hasn’t been the same since Joe Morgan & Jon Miller were calling games
Posted on 2/21/25 at 12:22 am to Lsuhoohoo
I’d love to see MLB and Apple go full bore into a partnership. Their broadcasts (visually and the interface) are great… but the human talent is awful. Invest in getting some legit announcers and it would be great all around
Posted on 2/21/25 at 6:52 am to Basura Blanco
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Jon Miller and Joe Morgan made national TV baseball.
Must see TV for Sunday Night Baseball as a kid.
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:12 am to Lsuhoohoo
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and NBA.
Went woke hard
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:22 am to Lsuhoohoo
Baseball at both the college and pro level is now a regional sport - or more specifically in the case of MLB an I only watch my favorite team sport.
I like baseball, I'm a Cub fan and watch about 100 Cub games a year and go to Wrigley 2-3 times a year to see the Cubs play and make one road trip a year to see the Cubs play. I'll watch LSU whenever they are on.
But if the no. 1 and 2 baseball teams in the country in college play each other, and it's not LSU I have zero interest - won't watch a pitch. Same for MLB, if it ain't the Cubs outside of maybe watching Skenes pitch, I ain't watching.
And I think that's largely the way it is for most folks. The days of baseball drawing large national ratings are long in the past outside very special circumstances, which is why ESPN is probably wise to move on from it. There's still a lot of regional and loyal passions still left for baseball and it will survive because of that. But it's never going to ever be the national pastime it once was again.
I like baseball, I'm a Cub fan and watch about 100 Cub games a year and go to Wrigley 2-3 times a year to see the Cubs play and make one road trip a year to see the Cubs play. I'll watch LSU whenever they are on.
But if the no. 1 and 2 baseball teams in the country in college play each other, and it's not LSU I have zero interest - won't watch a pitch. Same for MLB, if it ain't the Cubs outside of maybe watching Skenes pitch, I ain't watching.
And I think that's largely the way it is for most folks. The days of baseball drawing large national ratings are long in the past outside very special circumstances, which is why ESPN is probably wise to move on from it. There's still a lot of regional and loyal passions still left for baseball and it will survive because of that. But it's never going to ever be the national pastime it once was again.
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