Among the highlights of those agreements: ESPN has exclusive national terrestrial radio rights to regular season games and every playoff match-up through the end of the World Series, ESPN has rights to baseball video highlights on all of its platforms and ESPN Mobile and ESPN360 have cut-in video rights to baseball telecasts on ESPN networks. The agreement, which runs from 2006-2013, was announced today by ESPN and ABC Sports President George Bodenheimer and Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud SeligĮSPN and MLB had already reached long-term agreements covering rights across ESPN’s extensive multimedia assets, including ESPN Radio ESPN ESPN360, the company’s growing interactive and customizable broadband service ESPN Mobile, ESPN’s recently announced mobile phone service and the company’s wireless content licensing business. In addition, a weekly Wednesday baseball game and Baseball Tonight, with its in-progress highlights and live cut-ins, continue on ESPN or ESPN2. ESPN’s new Monday Night Baseball franchise will mostly co-exist with local carriers, meaning ESPN will have virtually no blackouts for these two franchises. Actually, this is usually a pretty good game, so I don't have a problem with it being here, until you remember that ESPN is going to show the other 17 games of these two teams playing each other.ESPN and Major League Baseball have reached an eight-year regular-season agreement, highlighted by the continuation of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball series with additional, exclusive team appearances. I have to think that this is in the terms of Bill Simmons' TV contract. If you're a Sawkx fan, how much do you hate ESPN right now? Insisting on televising every shellacking the Yanks give Boston is like torture. Oh well.ħ/21 - New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox Rangers/Tigers would have been fine here, as would Reds/Braves. Yeah, I don't want to watch that game, either. 5th divisional game? In terms of competitiveness, this is the same to another game on this date. Last game before the all-star break, they picked this game over plenty of other worthy challengers. What in the actual fuck? ESPN, you are the worst. If you have to show a NY team here, why not Yanks/Rays? I'd rather watch that.ħ/14 - St. Reds play the Phillies.ĭivision rivalry, I guess? The Mets were gawd-awful last year, and traded their best player. Then again, the alternatives aren't great here either. Tigers with their 2nd game so far and the Rangers with their 3rd. The NLC alternative is Reds/Chubs, and the Chubs shouldn't get a game because they finished 5th in the division last year, right?ĥ/12 - Los Angeles Angels at Chicago White SoxĮSPN's counteracting their famed New England bias with a new LA bias for 2013, aren't they? Either way, the only game on this date better than this one would be Braves/Giants, and you can't do them two weeks in a row. maybe that's a good choice, too.ĥ/5 - Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giantsĭivision rivals! This isn't too bad, either. if you have the winner of the NL East against the winner of the NL Central, and a 97-win team against a 98-win team. Interleague action! This is the only interleague game of the night, and isn't the worst choice you can make. The second placed team in the NL Central against the third placed team in the NL East from last year. What did the NL do to get in the doghouse?Ĥ/21 - St. Yankees! Drink! Still though, the top two teams in the AL East from last year, that's fine with me. I don't mind watching this one, but I'm already tired of the Rangers getting on every Sunday night game.Ĥ/14 - Baltimore Orioles at New York Yankees Moving on.Ĥ/7 - Los Angeles Angels at Texas Rangers The worst team in baseball last year gets a home game! Wait, this must be a misprint because this says 3/31, which is before the Reds play on 4/1. ESPN released their Sunday Night Baseball schedule for 2013 yesterday.
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