Why is MLB Leaving ESPN?!

Your background music is so fucking annoying.

Why does it sound like I’m watching 48?

MLB is in a good spot rn, with superstars like ohtani, acuna, trout, etc

Crazy have been watching more baseball in the last 2 or so years. NBA is more of a joke the past 2 years instead.

Face it man. Baseball doesn't get the ratings it did before. Plain and simple.. It always.. ALWAYS.. comes down to money.. If the same number of people who watched the NFL, and to a lesser extent the NBA, watched MLB/NHL ESPN would be showing it far more.. Don't believe me? Even MLB admitted it by making 'drastic' rule changes to help speed up the game and make it more palatable for the younger, more ADHD'd, audience.. For us older folks (35+), we grew up watching MLB.. Hell, even though I grew up in the Bay Area and was an avid A's/Giants fan, I watched the Braves games on the TBS on the weekend because there wasn't much else to do other than go outside and raise hell lol.. AND those games came on at 10am PT (1pm ATL start time) more than not.. So I could watch a full game, get some chores done during commercials, and then head out afterwards to 'raise hell' lol..

Today.... SOOO much competition for attention.. especially for young people (1-25).. smartphones.. tablets.. streaming everything.. VPN ghosting (to get even more content, lol).. tikbook.. facetok.. so on and so on.. It literally was a simpler time back in the day.. The later gens just weren't 'indoctrinated' to MLB or baseball in general while they were growing up.. No movie like The Sandlot for kids to fall in love with and subsequently fall in love with baseball itself.. Granted, parents could show their kids The Sandlot, but 'it hit different' when it came out back in the early 90s.. probably saw that movie 4-5 times in theater..

They should probably just bring back steroids.. lol.. It worked before ;)

ESPN didn’t do a good job of representing for baseball now with the Dodgers doing so good they’re gonna lose a lot of money💯

MLB drew 71 million fans last season...More than NFL NBA NHL MLS.............................COMBINED.......

ESPN sucks

ESPN, like their daddy, Disney -SUCKS -good riddance to woke garbage

They saw what they did to the NBA ratings.

SAS and whenever Mad Dog Russo appears on the show, have talked about baseball on there show. Except when it's only the Yankees and/or Dodgers of course 😩

MLB is tired of Woke Disney and their rainbow subsidiaries

I would much rather watch my local coverage. I hate it when Fox or ESPN forces themselves over my local coverage. Especially when it's Joe Buck

Baseball was more popular when I could catch the Cubs after school and then the Braves every night on TBS. Everyone could watch those games.

Mlb wants more money but teams ownership won't spend money on players tho!

Last week’s news. You are abit late and not really worth watching.

i wonder whos gunna pick up the mantle

ESPN watchers have attention span of something that has no attention span. Baseball ain't for them

Oh no, not WNBA… ESPN is garbage anyway

I have listened to Stephen A smith discuss baseball and Shohei Ohtani, this past year when the dodgers won the World Series. So they definitely do talk baseball but it’s just not the main subject; it’s mainly baseball and football.

ITS BECAUSE THE DODGERS😢😢😢😢😢😢THE DODGERS ARE EV3N THE REASON WHY MY PARENTS GOT DIVORCED😢😢😢😢THEY ASSURED ME IT WASNT MY FAULT

I think MLB should be moving to over-the-air antenna television network The CW since they're planning on airing more sports on Sundays from The CW Sports besides they're doing great with sports hopefully The CW will get MLB 🤞🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏🙏

ESPN is trash

ESPN is practically irrelevant tbh

People keep saying great for the MLB. But no other network or streaming site will pay them 550mill.

You read that whole thing. Good grief.

what it is the end of a bad thing . espn been pushing alway from united state sport for years.
housting each year got worst. MLB Network would do better with a 40 minutes early start time. and host it better also on Sundays . THE only person hurting this is ROB S. he don't understand what fans want now days. who want Apple? we could get better Annousor also like Rod Allen , Rich Waltz , . TBS IS ALSO doing bad from time to time

Hate to see what baseball has become, as an Oakland A’s fan, I’m obviously bitter already

Disney cutting back on costs.

Blackouts, ridiculous expensive packages and poor quality of the product, is the reason MLB is in🚽. Gambling is killing professional sports. We stop watching years ago.

Man popularity of baseball is great at the moment. Just check attendance numbers for last season.

Other then dodgers baseball?

ESPN has been 💩 for the last decade anyway

ESPN is 100% replacing MLB with WNBA and after a year of trashing Caitlin Clark they will flip the script and praise here, just watch. They'll also continue to prop up the weaker players due to....uh their agenda.

I stopped watching espn in the 2000s - even when my Braves were on. They’re awful.

Is this why I saw two ESPN mlb vids today for the first time in god knows how long?

If MLB could sign a deal with Apple TV that would remove local market blackouts the league would get all the exposure and revenue they’re looking for.

Watching baseball on ESPN is a chore and Apple+ having almost sole rights to broadcast MLS is hurting the league’s growth. Premier, La Liga and Serie A have better coverage in the US.

I've also noticed the lack of MLB talk on ESPN's morning debate shows. ESPN all but deleted its weeknight inventory a while back, so maybe I should've seen this coming. I don't know what MLB's gonna do before its next round of media deals comes up.

As a baseball fan, I am so happy to say I’ll never have to turn on ESPN ever again

Baseball is boring now and has terrible rule changes that have killed the game. There is no big name superstars anymore. All teams are trying to get their own networks now so they can get a monthly fee and milk their fans for every penny.

Baseball will be a lot easier/funner to watch now. ESPN did absolutely nothing to help grow baseball as a sport, did the complete opposite in fact. Just kept sinking and sinking, and I think it's a great for the breakup to happen right now. The game is in a great place and it's only going to get better. Let's goooooo

MLB Network needs to step up and do regular season games, not just Spring Training.

I live in San Diego… it takes an act of God to watch a Padres game on TV… so I just forgot about baseball…

"baseball doesn't exist" - ESPN

If baseball was 80% black American athletes, ESPN would love it. However, ESPN is a leftist racist channel and has been for some time now. There are too many white and Hispanics from REAL communist countries in the MLB to try to play the Anti-American race card, which is their never-ending goal! That is why they love the NBA and like football.
They will fawn over terrible complaining athletes in the never profitable virtually unwatched WNBA and ignore baseball. They are so biased

Sports leagues are imploding

No one cares about ESPN let alone the MLB. You tools that support both. Turn off your TV. Instead go have a catch with your kid.

MLB gets better viewership than nba

I remember when watching baseball was over the air and free…….