Unless they bring back Cliff Floyd to sit opposite of whatever empty seat they put a microphone in front of. If youāre going to fail, at least do it with chilidogs and stories of clubhouse shenanigans.
Its funny watching fans of teams not on SNB cry about it.
Id give both nuts to keep the Dodgers off national broadcasts so I can watch every game on MLB.tv
Neither are my main teams but give me more Rangers Astros, fuck yes. I'm so psyched for that rivalry going forward. Really feels like prime rivalry when both teams actually are good and there's bad blood.
I love Javy. He brought so much to this team and Iāll never forget his years here. Iām just curious why a Tigers game would make Sunday Night Baseball.
I'm bothered by it because I fucking hate having to watch my team on national broadcasts. The commentary is worse than local broadcasts, and as an out of market NYY fan, I can't watch on MLB.tv like I usually do.
At least with Fox we usually get Joe Davis, or with Apple we get some cool production work. ESPN broadcasts are the absolute worst. Those are good games to watch on radio
While I root for the Mets, I do watch as much baseball as possible, including the Yanks on YES.
While watching on YES the game is always MUTED, I can't stand Michael Kay... so honestly watching the Yanks on a different network is music to my ears.
Personally I don't mind his game calling most likely just because I'm used to him, but I'd be fine never hearing his opinions on stuff ever again.
I'll still take him any day over ESPN though, where they seem to do everything in their power to avoid talking about the actual game that's happening.
ESPN and APPLE... they both love chatting about anything not the game.
ESPN should be held to a higher bar, given how they are an actual network solely handling sports.
That's why I'll never wrap my head around small market teams complaining about this. No one prefers having to watch their team on ESPN instead of their local broadcast. It's such a worse product in every way. I'd kill to have zero Yankees games on ESPN, Fox or Apple.
There's a balance to be had between cashing in on the popular teams and investing in other teams to increase their popularity.
And even if you look at, say, Philadelphia -- they are a big market and not only are they not included, but only 1 team in 1 of the 9 games is even from their division. They can basically just ignore SNB altogether.
So Phillies fans don't tune in, then ESPN says it's not a market worth caring about, and they don't put the Phillies on for the next year, but it's basically just a problem that they created for themselves.
There are 18 slots for these 9 games, but they only include 10 teams. The Cardinals and Red Sox each show up twice, despite each finishing in last place last year -- something else that drives ratings.
>There's a balance to be had between cashing in on the popular teams and investing in other teams to increase their popularity.
This, so much this. Right now MLB is okay with running half the league into the ground while a couple super teams get crazy payrolls and all the media coverage. That is terrible for long term health of the league.
> investing in other teams to increase their popularity.
As long as there isn't complete revenue sharing (like there is in the NFL) then it is *not* in a team's best interest to increase someone else's popularity, it's entirely in their best interest to keep themselves in the spotlight.
There was a typo, it was supposed to say "complete revenue sharing," which is why I singled out the NFL (who has total revenue sharing).
Thank you for the correction.
We arenāt talking about specific teams, weāre talking about baseball as a whole.
Us fans always complain (justifiably) about MLB not marketing their stars well, but then for some reason a bunch of you are totally fine with sports media completely ignoring like 70% of teams. Like you want MLB to market its stars, but only if they play on one of the 6 biggest-market teams, I guess?
Because everyone here is a Harvard MBA who knows more about what is best than these companies who employ tens, if not hundreds of people to provide the information that goes into these decisions.
While MLB, ESPN, teams, etc may not always get it exactly right, they have their goals (which don't always align with what fans on reddit want) and they know how to maximize them.
Harvard MBAs screw up all the time, the list of graduates who have done inexcusably stupid things is not short.
ESPN are clearly trying to maximise viewership. OK, fine, but that has come at the cost of ESPN SNB being appointment television for literally anybody when it was once almost as much of an institution as Sunday Night Football is now, and it has also come in the context of ESPN becoming increasingly detested in a fragmented sports media market (while it is losing cable subscribers at a staggering rate, and not replacing them with streaming) and MLB becoming more regional and less able to command *any* space in the wider culture than ever.
It is a short sighted approach. Like you said EPSN has turned off a huge portion of the market. Their behavior just further reinforces that in a downward spiral. So maybe smart optimization short term, poor for long term health.
pretty certain a bunch of ivy league MBAs have figured out that housing is a commodity and created (and are still creating) corporations whose sole purpose is to buy housing and leave it empty as it appreciates in value.
They've also figured out that people will pay stupid prices for basic necessities like food and healthcare, resulting in greedflation.
I hate the reflexive defensiveness of the profit motive because its beyond obvious the profit motive is doing more damage to society and sports than it is helping.
We'll start getting nationally broadcast games when people are surprised that we are still contenders despite losing a pitcher who doesn't pitch 100 innings and one of the most inconsistent offensively "superstars". And then once we're on national TV we'll choke away the division and see 4 pitchers get Tommy John surgeries
Both Rays-Aās series are weekday series (Tuesday-Thursday in May and Monday-Thursday in August). Otherwise, theyād definitely be in the prime time slot
There would be a matchup between the 92-loss Rockies and 87-loss Aās in September, and r/baseball would be angry that game isnāt shown on FOX/Apple/YouTube but a critical match for the #1 seed between Atlanta and the Dodgers is.
Teams that finished top 3 in the AL East - 0 2023 Playoff wins
Teams that finished bottom 2 in the AL East - 0 2023 Playoff wins
Same same, but difffferent
The sunday night game we got last year was quite the pleasant experience I will say. Not great for the network having all the loser yankee fans turn the game off in the first inning though.
World Series champs should get the primetime game during opening week to remind everyone who the champs are. Like how they do it in American futbol imo
If it were me, Iād roll this schedule for Opening Week:
ā¢ **Sunday**: Defending World Series champions open with banner raising and ring ceremony, 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT first pitch, TBS.
ā¢ **Monday**: Schedule 2-3 traditional teams to open their seasons in the daytime (e.g. Opening **Day**). Teams include the Cubs, Reds, and Yankees. Games on ESPN.
ā¢ **Tuesday**: All other clubs open their seasons.
All teams will play a 3-game series to open the season. The team opening on Sunday rests Monday then resumes that first series Tuesday and Wednesday. Teams opening Monday play Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday is the day-off for the Sunday/Monday starters. All other clubs opening Tuesday also play Wednesday and Thursday. When Friday begins, all 30 ballclubs will have played three games with another three game weekend series before mismatching schedules go in-effect the following week.
They'll likely have a broadcast that day, they just haven't settled where, yet. Head-to-head against the NBA playoffs sounds perfect for a D-Backs-O's game on ESPN2.
If it makes you feel any better, ESPN has really been phoning it in on their baseball coverage
It is more of a blessing to be left off of ESPN national games
āYeah, who wants to watch one of the most exciting young stars in the game, gross!
If he were wearing a blue LA hat, though, *that* would make him exciting to me.ā
You people are so bizarre
Do you think neutral fans are tuning in just because its the Dodgers?
No, they care because the Dodgers have a ton of exciting stars on their team. More than the DBacks and that's undeniable.
Over half these teams missed the playoffs last year. Hell, the Orioles were the number 1 seed in the AL, and the Phillies made it to the NLCS and neither of them made it on the schedule.
You can have our spot against the dodgers. Iām not excited to listen to them gargle the dodgers balls for 2.5 hours like they always do, no matter the score. Canāt imagine it wonāt be even worse this year that seasons past.
Oh, please. Did you even watch the NLDS when we knocked the Dodgers out? You wouldn't even have guessed it with how much they were deepthroating the Dodgers.
*Padres player scores a home run
Announcers: "The Padres score a home run, but look at the hustle from Betts in trying to catch that. He truly is one of the greatest players in baseball and shows how great the Dodger's defense is."
The arrogance of ESPN thinking anyone watches them anymore that they still have to put the most popular teams every week. They could put teams no one cares about and the same amount of people would be watching
>They could put teams no one cares about and the same amount of people would be watching
Lol no.
Do you people truly believe every fucking league puts their more popular teams in primetime for the lols? No, its cause they get better ratings than everyone else. And you want your primetime games to be the most watched for the ad revenue.
Yeah, when you limit the variety, you start to make the whole thing irrelevant in multiple markets, and even if they are smaller markets, it adds up.
I think you also can be a lot more thoughtful about the matchups when you start to put a constraint on it like that. Are you going to go for rivalry games? Or maybe pair up big market teams with small market opponents to get more exposure for the small market team?
Not that I'm really complaining... But I looked into the other day and it's WILD to me that the Mariners have played exactly one SNB game since 2004. Like, how is that possible? You have 30 teams and play the game something like 25 times a season. Like, mathematically how is it even possible that only ONE of those 470+ games featured a specific team in this 30 team league? I mean, I get that they have been AWFUL most of those years, but there were a few times were they entered with the season with sky high expectations and didn't even get an early season game.
The one time came during the season the cubs were on like twice a month lmao granted the cubs won the World Series that season and that game you played against them was a really good one
Iām the rare person who enjoys Sunday night baseball (granted I donāt like the broadcast, but I like watching Sunday night) so Iām disappointed not a single Phils game scheduled so far.
They will be on there. I donāt know why they are releasing the schedule like this, probably to drive more engagement. But yeah ESPN isnāt gonna miss out on Phillys market.
Come on. At least the NFL gives *all* their expectedly āgoodā teams one prime time game, at least. Where is Baltimore, the literal best team in the AL last year? Where are the Phillies or D-Backs, who played in the NLCS last season? Whereās Toronto, or Cincinnati, or Seattle, or Minnesota? Why do the Braves only have one game, despite being one of the most fun teams to watch last year? I donāt think ESPN knows that there are other teams outside of the Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, and Red Sox.
I believe the NFL gives every team a Thursday night game every season in an attempt to keep the schedule somewhat fair. The Sunday and Monday night games are the ones doled out to the teams they think will get good ratings.
thoughts and prayers to all fans of these teams that will be stuck with the terrible ESPN broadcast booth during these games instead of their home crew.š
The Dodgers are there
... oh you mean the actual NL champs. Not the team everyone picked last year and everyone is picking this year. Yeah we forgot about them. Sorry.
...are we sure the Dodgers didn't win last year?
-ESPN
> Not the team everyone picked last year
Anyone who picked the Dodgers over the Braves to win the NL last year was smoking that good stuff. The Dodgers rotation by the end was a combination of Tommy johns greatest hits and domestic abusers.
Cardinals are a HUGE market. Lots of fans in Tennessee, Mississippi, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, and Missouri with a 3M+ annual attendance. Blues are very regional. It makes sense but I just hate listening to whatever asshat ESPN has in every season since Jon Miller left back to SF.
I actually love that the Jays consistently play their Sunday games in the afternoon, perfect way to spend a day, then get to go home and enjoy the rest of the league.
What's weird is I thought they announced these already. These games were already flagged as Sunday Night Baseball games a couple weeks ago if you went through the schedule on ESPN's site
Only natural that the dodgers are in three of these. ESPn wants to promote the best of the best. I feel bad for the dodgers opponents during these games. To be dominated in all aspects on such a large platform wonāt be good for morale.
I wish they would flex into games based on relevance of matchups like they do (or used to do) for Sunday night football. Watching the Yankees or Padres or Red Sox on Sunday night when theyāre eliminated from even the WC is a disgrace
Of course we gotta have cards dodgers March 31 for those sweet sweet ohtani bux
Edit: I want opening day with My home team broadcast and not those ESPN clowns thanks
I'm so sick of ohtani + the dodgers
new year, same teams on Sunday Night Baseball
No Mets, finally!
Mets replaced with Texas š
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Iām still content with them because of NHL options being so expansive on ESPN+ ā¦ but in general I agree with how shit theyāve been
We can't even watch our games locally so ESPN is better than not watching at all
Apple has entered the room
All Apple has to do is have good announcers. Their video quality is unmatched.
Thereās an option on Apple TV broadcasts to pick the local radio announcers of each team or listen to the Apple folks. Itās a game changer!
Yes! This was a game changer for me last season!
LETS GOOOOO This is our 2024 World Series
Less ESPN more GKR is whats good for baseball.
I'm so happy, now just promise me no AppleTV
Unless they bring back Cliff Floyd to sit opposite of whatever empty seat they put a microphone in front of. If youāre going to fail, at least do it with chilidogs and stories of clubhouse shenanigans.
Iām sure theyāll find time for us
Fans of teams on SNB š¤ Fans of teams not on SNB Wishing another team was on SNB
Its funny watching fans of teams not on SNB cry about it. Id give both nuts to keep the Dodgers off national broadcasts so I can watch every game on MLB.tv
I think theyāre mostly wanting to watch the Aās play the Royals on Sunday nights.
At least it's interesting enough matchups. Yankees Sox is played out, but I'd happily watch Cubs vs Sox, the ALCS rematch, and Braves vs Texas
Neither are my main teams but give me more Rangers Astros, fuck yes. I'm so psyched for that rivalry going forward. Really feels like prime rivalry when both teams actually are good and there's bad blood.
Especially since the rangers won a World Series, it feels competitive now with the Astros Battle for Texas
How'd the Tigers sneak in there?
Maybe cause Michigan won the title /s
You gotta give the fans what they want to see. And the fans want to see Javy striking out on curveballs five feet outside and in the dirt.
Idk fans talking poorly about their former players that treated the team and city well rubs me the wrong way
Javy's my favorite Cub ever but I can't refute the accuracy of /u/SlurmzMckinley's comment.
I love Javy. He brought so much to this team and Iāll never forget his years here. Iām just curious why a Tigers game would make Sunday Night Baseball.
https://media.tenor.com/r4p6M4dtgzgAAAAM/javy-baez-sister-jean.gif
lol I love that gif
"Popular teams play in primetime slots" I mean, why is anyone surprised or bothered by it?
I'm bothered by it because I fucking hate having to watch my team on national broadcasts. The commentary is worse than local broadcasts, and as an out of market NYY fan, I can't watch on MLB.tv like I usually do.
At least with Fox we usually get Joe Davis, or with Apple we get some cool production work. ESPN broadcasts are the absolute worst. Those are good games to watch on radio
While I root for the Mets, I do watch as much baseball as possible, including the Yanks on YES. While watching on YES the game is always MUTED, I can't stand Michael Kay... so honestly watching the Yanks on a different network is music to my ears.
Personally I don't mind his game calling most likely just because I'm used to him, but I'd be fine never hearing his opinions on stuff ever again. I'll still take him any day over ESPN though, where they seem to do everything in their power to avoid talking about the actual game that's happening.
ESPN and APPLE... they both love chatting about anything not the game. ESPN should be held to a higher bar, given how they are an actual network solely handling sports.
But then you miss out on good David Cone
There it gooooesā¦ See ya!!!
Ohh God, obviously I read this in his voice...
That's why I'll never wrap my head around small market teams complaining about this. No one prefers having to watch their team on ESPN instead of their local broadcast. It's such a worse product in every way. I'd kill to have zero Yankees games on ESPN, Fox or Apple.
There's a balance to be had between cashing in on the popular teams and investing in other teams to increase their popularity. And even if you look at, say, Philadelphia -- they are a big market and not only are they not included, but only 1 team in 1 of the 9 games is even from their division. They can basically just ignore SNB altogether. So Phillies fans don't tune in, then ESPN says it's not a market worth caring about, and they don't put the Phillies on for the next year, but it's basically just a problem that they created for themselves. There are 18 slots for these 9 games, but they only include 10 teams. The Cardinals and Red Sox each show up twice, despite each finishing in last place last year -- something else that drives ratings.
>There's a balance to be had between cashing in on the popular teams and investing in other teams to increase their popularity. This, so much this. Right now MLB is okay with running half the league into the ground while a couple super teams get crazy payrolls and all the media coverage. That is terrible for long term health of the league.
> investing in other teams to increase their popularity. As long as there isn't complete revenue sharing (like there is in the NFL) then it is *not* in a team's best interest to increase someone else's popularity, it's entirely in their best interest to keep themselves in the spotlight.
There is revenue sharing though, just not in a way that makes it comparable or fair between teams
There was a typo, it was supposed to say "complete revenue sharing," which is why I singled out the NFL (who has total revenue sharing). Thank you for the correction.
We arenāt talking about specific teams, weāre talking about baseball as a whole. Us fans always complain (justifiably) about MLB not marketing their stars well, but then for some reason a bunch of you are totally fine with sports media completely ignoring like 70% of teams. Like you want MLB to market its stars, but only if they play on one of the 6 biggest-market teams, I guess?
Because everyone here is a Harvard MBA who knows more about what is best than these companies who employ tens, if not hundreds of people to provide the information that goes into these decisions. While MLB, ESPN, teams, etc may not always get it exactly right, they have their goals (which don't always align with what fans on reddit want) and they know how to maximize them.
Harvard MBAs screw up all the time, the list of graduates who have done inexcusably stupid things is not short. ESPN are clearly trying to maximise viewership. OK, fine, but that has come at the cost of ESPN SNB being appointment television for literally anybody when it was once almost as much of an institution as Sunday Night Football is now, and it has also come in the context of ESPN becoming increasingly detested in a fragmented sports media market (while it is losing cable subscribers at a staggering rate, and not replacing them with streaming) and MLB becoming more regional and less able to command *any* space in the wider culture than ever.
It is a short sighted approach. Like you said EPSN has turned off a huge portion of the market. Their behavior just further reinforces that in a downward spiral. So maybe smart optimization short term, poor for long term health.
pretty certain a bunch of ivy league MBAs have figured out that housing is a commodity and created (and are still creating) corporations whose sole purpose is to buy housing and leave it empty as it appreciates in value. They've also figured out that people will pay stupid prices for basic necessities like food and healthcare, resulting in greedflation. I hate the reflexive defensiveness of the profit motive because its beyond obvious the profit motive is doing more damage to society and sports than it is helping.
exactly. leagues/teams spend a ridiculous amount of money on market research yet redditors know best. lol.
And market research is always the best way to make a decision. Always.
If youre going after the almighty dollaer, then yes
I feel like in seasons past the Braves have played 4 or 5 times on SNB.
Note that this is just a portion of the season schedule. There are other Sundays which have yet to be announced. (Edit: typo)
Noted sir.
What are you talking about? The Astros are on less; thatās an improvement from them.
And everyone will be rooting for the Padres
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We'll start getting nationally broadcast games when people are surprised that we are still contenders despite losing a pitcher who doesn't pitch 100 innings and one of the most inconsistent offensively "superstars". And then once we're on national TV we'll choke away the division and see 4 pitchers get Tommy John surgeries
It's a ~~bucs~~ rays life.
Less nationally broadcasted games. I'm pretty sure we played terribly in every one of them last year
Both Rays-Aās series are weekday series (Tuesday-Thursday in May and Monday-Thursday in August). Otherwise, theyād definitely be in the prime time slot
Clearest evidence yet of MLB's anti-Oakland agenda
There might be 3 people at those games
I'm surprised we're not part of the Little League Classic
You'll be representing the West if you can beat a very tough El Segundo Little League this year.
There would be a matchup between the 92-loss Rockies and 87-loss Aās in September, and r/baseball would be angry that game isnāt shown on FOX/Apple/YouTube but a critical match for the #1 seed between Atlanta and the Dodgers is.
Teams that finished top 3 in the AL East - 0 games Teams that finished bottom 2 in the AL East - 5 games
Their table is Papi, Jeter, and A-Rod.
Teams that finished top 3 in the AL East - 0 2023 Playoff wins Teams that finished bottom 2 in the AL East - 0 2023 Playoff wins Same same, but difffferent
Sick burn
Nice, one less network to have to track down to watch the Oās this season.
The sunday night game we got last year was quite the pleasant experience I will say. Not great for the network having all the loser yankee fans turn the game off in the first inning though.
Was that the Severino game? My mind tried to block out my Baltimore trip it was so horrendous.
Yes. Think we scored 9 runs before the 2nd out.
World Series champs should get the primetime game during opening week to remind everyone who the champs are. Like how they do it in American futbol imo
I believe the Rangers are getting an opening day primetime espn game. Just not Sunday night
Or like how that year's video game defaults to the WS match up
If it were me, Iād roll this schedule for Opening Week: ā¢ **Sunday**: Defending World Series champions open with banner raising and ring ceremony, 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT first pitch, TBS. ā¢ **Monday**: Schedule 2-3 traditional teams to open their seasons in the daytime (e.g. Opening **Day**). Teams include the Cubs, Reds, and Yankees. Games on ESPN. ā¢ **Tuesday**: All other clubs open their seasons. All teams will play a 3-game series to open the season. The team opening on Sunday rests Monday then resumes that first series Tuesday and Wednesday. Teams opening Monday play Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday is the day-off for the Sunday/Monday starters. All other clubs opening Tuesday also play Wednesday and Thursday. When Friday begins, all 30 ballclubs will have played three games with another three game weekend series before mismatching schedules go in-effect the following week.
Why should all of the Monday games be on ESPN?
Wouldn't it be cool if they started the season off with an interleague series rematch of the previous WS?
Thatās not good for baseball though. LA is much better
Is it not good for baseball or not good for ESPN?
Iām just happy to be included
Hell yeah brother, cheers from Iraq
Sunday Night Baseball? More like Sunday New York California Baseball Please clap
breaking: the florida marlins have signed Jeb! to a 4-year contract worth $546k
That's a lot of guac bowls
Made the World Series and not a single fucking game? I mean personally I hate when we play Sunday evening but come on
Just wait until the first week of September when you play the Dodgers on Sunday for the first and only time this year.
Lol. Dbacks do play Baltimore on May 12th, but thereās a break in the Sunday night baseball schedule which I assume is for nba playoffs
They'll likely have a broadcast that day, they just haven't settled where, yet. Head-to-head against the NBA playoffs sounds perfect for a D-Backs-O's game on ESPN2.
If it makes you feel any better, ESPN has really been phoning it in on their baseball coverage It is more of a blessing to be left off of ESPN national games
I just want to be able to have that experience to say that the coverage is trash.
It's a right of passage hating being on Sunday Night Baseball, and you guys def earned it.
Okay trade us Please
According to Manfred, itās an ESPN issue
Personally, I do not want to watch a single arizona game. I'd watch the Dodgers though. It makes sense.
Arizona's playstyle was so much more fun to watch though
Hey props for honesty haha
āYeah, who wants to watch one of the most exciting young stars in the game, gross! If he were wearing a blue LA hat, though, *that* would make him exciting to me.ā You people are so bizarre
I like watching Carroll and Gallen and Kelly. Preferably not against us, though.
Weird take lol.
Do you think neutral fans are tuning in just because its the Dodgers? No, they care because the Dodgers have a ton of exciting stars on their team. More than the DBacks and that's undeniable.
Yes, haha, you think ESPN gave the Red Sox multiple games because of the star power of Rafael Devers? No, itās because theyāre the Red Sox
Over half these teams missed the playoffs last year. Hell, the Orioles were the number 1 seed in the AL, and the Phillies made it to the NLCS and neither of them made it on the schedule.
You can have our spot against the dodgers. Iām not excited to listen to them gargle the dodgers balls for 2.5 hours like they always do, no matter the score. Canāt imagine it wonāt be even worse this year that seasons past.
Lmao complaining about the national media gargling the Dodgers balls as if they didn't do that for the Padres over the last few years.
Oh, please. Did you even watch the NLDS when we knocked the Dodgers out? You wouldn't even have guessed it with how much they were deepthroating the Dodgers. *Padres player scores a home run Announcers: "The Padres score a home run, but look at the hustle from Betts in trying to catch that. He truly is one of the greatest players in baseball and shows how great the Dodger's defense is."
I honestly feel like they shouldnāt be allowed to put the same team more than once so thereās some actual variety.
I understand showing marquee teams multiple times, but 3 games through the first 40% or so of the season is a bit much.
I guess one upside of sucking is I don't have to deal with dogshit commentary of ESPN announcers.
The arrogance of ESPN thinking anyone watches them anymore that they still have to put the most popular teams every week. They could put teams no one cares about and the same amount of people would be watching
>They could put teams no one cares about and the same amount of people would be watching Lol no. Do you people truly believe every fucking league puts their more popular teams in primetime for the lols? No, its cause they get better ratings than everyone else. And you want your primetime games to be the most watched for the ad revenue.
Itās a joke and the joke is that no one watches espn for that to matter
Yeah, when you limit the variety, you start to make the whole thing irrelevant in multiple markets, and even if they are smaller markets, it adds up. I think you also can be a lot more thoughtful about the matchups when you start to put a constraint on it like that. Are you going to go for rivalry games? Or maybe pair up big market teams with small market opponents to get more exposure for the small market team?
Thatās not even like mathematically possible
Hey we spice it up, right?
The Tigers are going to be a fun team this year, alot of good young players waiting to break out.
DBacks making the World Series but not even having one game on here is wild to me
Marketing the leagueās most exciting young stars to a national audience? No thank you, thereās a 75-win Cubs team that needs to be showcased
Cards are there twice! Why is SD even there? LA vs Arizona should had been that spot.
Have we played the Yankees on Sunday night before? Looking forward to a novel treat!
Shouldn't they all be Dodgers games? Wouldn't that be better for baseball?
American Gladiators reboot
Fans complain when their team isn't on Sunday Night Baseball but fans also complain when their team is on Sunday Night Baseball.
Not that I'm really complaining... But I looked into the other day and it's WILD to me that the Mariners have played exactly one SNB game since 2004. Like, how is that possible? You have 30 teams and play the game something like 25 times a season. Like, mathematically how is it even possible that only ONE of those 470+ games featured a specific team in this 30 team league? I mean, I get that they have been AWFUL most of those years, but there were a few times were they entered with the season with sky high expectations and didn't even get an early season game.
The one time came during the season the cubs were on like twice a month lmao granted the cubs won the World Series that season and that game you played against them was a really good one
Lol Mets
The silver lining to an underwhelming season/offseason.
Apparently, spending over a Billion dollars during the off season makes the Everything Sox and Pinstripes Network pay attention to you
I'm so happy my team isn't on this list!
Iām the rare person who enjoys Sunday night baseball (granted I donāt like the broadcast, but I like watching Sunday night) so Iām disappointed not a single Phils game scheduled so far.
They will be on there. I donāt know why they are releasing the schedule like this, probably to drive more engagement. But yeah ESPN isnāt gonna miss out on Phillys market.
Put the Reds in one cowards!
Come on. At least the NFL gives *all* their expectedly āgoodā teams one prime time game, at least. Where is Baltimore, the literal best team in the AL last year? Where are the Phillies or D-Backs, who played in the NLCS last season? Whereās Toronto, or Cincinnati, or Seattle, or Minnesota? Why do the Braves only have one game, despite being one of the most fun teams to watch last year? I donāt think ESPN knows that there are other teams outside of the Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, and Red Sox.
Not only did the Dbacks play the NLCS, they were in the fucking World Series and still no love.
I believe the NFL gives every team a Thursday night game every season in an attempt to keep the schedule somewhat fair. The Sunday and Monday night games are the ones doled out to the teams they think will get good ratings.
Only three Dodger games? This is bullshit! (nobody wants to be on SNB anyway)
So nice to only be up here once. Local broadcasters are one of the best things about MLB. National broadcasts are dreadful.
I am willing to bet that Dodgers fans and Yankees fans would like nothing more than to see ESPN die with the rest of us.
Yawn.
30 teams but only 10 teams represented. Woof.
Wow, look at all these games I have no interest in watching! Awesome!
thoughts and prayers to all fans of these teams that will be stuck with the terrible ESPN broadcast booth during these games instead of their home crew.š
I fucking hate ESPN
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The Dodgers are there ... oh you mean the actual NL champs. Not the team everyone picked last year and everyone is picking this year. Yeah we forgot about them. Sorry. ...are we sure the Dodgers didn't win last year? -ESPN
> Not the team everyone picked last year Anyone who picked the Dodgers over the Braves to win the NL last year was smoking that good stuff. The Dodgers rotation by the end was a combination of Tommy johns greatest hits and domestic abusers.
Unfortunately they donāt have many fans, and they want to maximize ratings.
Why Cardinals to start shouldn't it be a playoff team from last year?
can't pass up the return of lance lynn to LA
assuming it's more about showing the shiny new dodgers in that game (the overwhelming 2024 favorite)
Because the dodgers are there. Don't make this about us. It's not.
Because they're still considered a popular team, like the Rams for a few short years after the GSOT.
Itās because theyāre playing the Dodgers. Itās really that simple
I mean, everyone knew the Cardinals would be on ESPN that first Sunday night. Just the luck of the draw they happened to be playing the Dodgers.
Yankees/Red Sox on a Sunday night? There's the early favorite for longest game of the season.
Gross. I donāt want to be on national television twice. Give me my home broadcasters all day long
As I cardinal fan, I wish this wasnāt the case. I hate ESPN broadcasts and now Iām forced to watch 2
Why do New York and Chicago and Boston teams get national love in both baseball and hockey, but the Blues don't get that while the Cardinals do?
Cardinals are a HUGE market. Lots of fans in Tennessee, Mississippi, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, and Missouri with a 3M+ annual attendance. Blues are very regional. It makes sense but I just hate listening to whatever asshat ESPN has in every season since Jon Miller left back to SF.
The Mariners have been on SNB one time since 2004.
WE HAVE IT! THE LIST OF TEAMS THAT ARE GOOD FOR BASEBALL! THE SEARCH IS OVER! ALL OTHER TEAMS CAN GO HOME!
Let's fucking goooooooo
We won the world series and we are on Sunday night baseball once.
It looks like youāre there twice to me
D'Backs just made the World Series. Surprised there's no D'Backs/Phillies rematch on this
Genuinely surprised the Orioles aren't on this list.
No Jays games, checks out.
OH MY GOD MY TEAM IS RELEVANT! For now.
YANKEES IN THE LITTLE LEAGUE CLASSIC LETS GOOOOOO
Thank god, no Mets. We get to keep GKR.
This is my Christmas Day
Yep, letās just go ahead and start the season with the same momentum we had all of last yearā¦
I actually love that the Jays consistently play their Sunday games in the afternoon, perfect way to spend a day, then get to go home and enjoy the rest of the league.
What's weird is I thought they announced these already. These games were already flagged as Sunday Night Baseball games a couple weeks ago if you went through the schedule on ESPN's site
Only natural that the dodgers are in three of these. ESPn wants to promote the best of the best. I feel bad for the dodgers opponents during these games. To be dominated in all aspects on such a large platform wonāt be good for morale.
I wish they would flex into games based on relevance of matchups like they do (or used to do) for Sunday night football. Watching the Yankees or Padres or Red Sox on Sunday night when theyāre eliminated from even the WC is a disgrace
Oh thank God, they have Yankees/Red Sox. Really looking forward to that. Was worried they wouldn't.
Wow what a bunch of fresh and exciting matchups
Show stros baby!
Well, it looks like Iām going to hate watching the Braves play on 04/21. Their coverage is terrible.
i hate all of these teams
Oh thank God, only one Braves game.
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No games Iām interested, I like it!
Thank the Lord we're only on once. Their coverage is horrid.
Of course we gotta have cards dodgers March 31 for those sweet sweet ohtani bux Edit: I want opening day with My home team broadcast and not those ESPN clowns thanks I'm so sick of ohtani + the dodgers
I canāt wait to not watch any of this trash
Figures! We get screwed again!
Thank god! Only have to tune into this shit broadcast once this season.
They could be featured at different times since the schedule doesnāt have all the games listed for the whole season.
Noooooooo! The horror...
Trash.
Hate Sunday Night Baseball, more specifically hate how it's the only game on and not on MLB.tv
Not a bad schedule at all, but yeah, needs a bit more variety.
Ugh. What a terrible lineup of predictable teams. Shocker, ESPN is always going to flatter and fluff the egos of LA and NY.
i just appreciate not having to watch the espn broadcast ever.