Welcome to the YES Network on ESPN. Michael Kay joining Alex Rodriguez on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball ManningCast-esque alternate feed David Cone, Eduardo Pérez, and Karl Ravech will make up the regular ESPN Sunday Night broadcast, while Michael Kay and A-Rod will do an alternate format. Marchand reports that Kay and A-Rod will do “somewhere between 10-12 games” for the alternate broadcast, whereas there are roughly 25 weeks of Sunday Night Baseball.
If this is the best ESPN can do for what is their signature baseball coverage... perhaps they should re-think their investment.
So the yankees are going to be on every Sunday regardless of if they're actually on tv or not. Awesome.
“we’re in the 7th inning stretch in a great matchup between two powerhouse teams, the Astros and Rays, let’s take it back to the studio. Alex and David, how do these teams remind you of the late 90s and 09 Yankees teams?”
Apple in serious talks with MLB to broadcast games Apple has had substantial talks about carrying Major League Baseball games next season. If a deal is finalized, it would represent a significant milestone in sports broadcasting since Apple has long been looked upon as a potential stop for major sports TV rights. One of Apple’s rival companies, Amazon, has already carved out an important piece of real estate in this space, as it will become the exclusive home of NFL “Thursday Night Football” in the fall. A potential MLB-Apple deal would not be anywhere close to the magnitude of the NFL and Amazon — which is for more than a billion dollars per year — but MLB and Apple would be the entree of the technology behemoth into the coverage of top live sports. This genre has long been dominated by ESPN, Fox Sports, NBC and CBS. The digital companies are new players in this field. The package MLB has been attempting to sell is weekday national games that ESPN recently relinquished. ESPN will no longer have regular Monday and Wednesday games. The ESPN games were not exclusive in local markets. It is unclear at this point if Apple would be allowed to wall off these select games from regional sports network coverage or not.
So Tampa has a major league team and a Low A Yankees affiliate? Weird. I had no idea. I also definitely read the name of their team differently on first read. Awkward.
Tampa was the Yankees domain before the Rays existed. The Yankees also hold spring training in Tampa and those games are always sold out… not so much for the Rays games. It is also strange that the Yankees hold ST in Tampa while Tampa holds ST in Port Charlotte.
Sad part is, the Tarpons stadium is nicer than Tropicana and actually in Tampa. I'm just joking about it being nicer, as I've never been, but Tropicana is terrible.
Yep. The problem here is that it is not convenient to get from Tampa to St. Petersburg around game time. Meanwhile I can get there in 15 minutes or so without ever getting on a freeway or encountering traffic.
