The ending of baseball’s partnership with ESPN, like most broken marriages, has gotten ugly. Instead of whining, MLB should say thanks for promoting the game for 35 years.
It’s official, ESPN and MLB are calling it quits. The post Fans Give Up on Longtime Broadcasting Partner After Rob Manfred Pulls Off the Unthinkable appeared first on EssentiallySports.
ESPN and MLB mutually decided to part ways at the conclusion of the 2025 season, which will conclude the latest media right contract between the two sides. In a letter to the league's owners obtained by The Athletic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred laid out the league's reasons to end the partnership.
Max Scherzer made waves in his first spring training start for the Toronto Blue Jays, not because of his pitching but because of his reaction after losing a challenge in MLB's new automated ball-strike system.
MLB is in a tough position with its TV rights after the league and ESPN announced an early end to their current deal after this season.
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle posted a quick update she received from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred on the A's ballparks in bot
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Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred called the Athletics temporary home in Sacramento charming but reiterated that he expects the franchise will open its new stadium in Las Vegas in 2028.
I have owners with really strongly held views that I need to coalesce into a position that ultimately we’ll take to the MLBPA,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters Tuesday, denying ...
The current CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) between MLB and the MLBPA is set to expire on December 1st of 2026. We all know that MLB commissioner Rob Manf
Amid a shifting landscape of regional sports networks, the sides agreed not to extend the deal before their self-imposed March 1 deadline.
It appears Major League Baseball will be off ESPN’s airwaves after the 2025 season. The two sides “mutually agreed” to cut their national television deal short after this year, according to a memo from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, via The Athletic .