MLB to ESPN: Drop dead

I gotta believe a colossal error was made, not ESPN sticking it to TBS.
That being said, this is a HUGE error by MLB. They lose a lot of attention to the game.

 

How do you figure? TBS has the peripheral crap instead of ESPN anyway, so people who tune to ESPN for that won't be there.
And ESPN is still committed to the highlight show...

 

My point exactly markvid. The All-Star game is already pretty much a joke. Losing coverage from ESPN only compounds the issue. I didn't mean to say that MLB would be doomed, I meant the All-Star game would suffer big time.

 

All-Star game won't suffer; the made-for-TV/Fan crap like home run derby, celebrity softball and other dumbass stuff might lose viewers.

 

Yeah, but those ratings that dropped would also be reflected in ESPN's numbers, and the WWL would never sabotage itself like that.

 

TBS is doing programming from San Fran?

 

Of course not. However, how is a couple minute standup in SC and a baseball tonight show it's still going to do anyway an error?

 

Oh, I see what you mean now, sorry.
They were not supposed to mention anything about the list until after TBS left the air.
So, they must have done it sometime between 4 and 5PM
So, I'm wondering if it wasn't ESPNews that did it. If so, some producer was sitting there Sunday night going "what? we weren't supposed to? but it was on AP!"

 

The article mentions the rain delay in the Braves game pushing the announcement show back...

 

Oh, that might really mean it was an error, not intentional.

 

That's what I was thinking. TBS was supposed to air its show around 4 PM after the Braves-Marlins game in Miami, but there was a rain delay. That said, this is as much sack as MLB has shown on any issue that I can remember. But then, it had a recent precedent from the NCAA to follow ...

 

And it's BS, it's an honest mistake. You don't go whipping it out against someone who pays you a lot of money just because.