MLB to ESPN: Drop dead

I disagree. [size=16pt]MLB YELLED IN REALLY BIG BOLD LETTERS ON THE PRESS RELEASES THAT THIS INFORMATION HAD TO BE EMBARAGOED UNTIL THE END OF THE TBS SHOW. Anyone who got the release(s) knew no one except TBS could release the info until the end of that silly ass show. If PR directors throughout the land were checking their watches and reminding folks the TBS exclusive was still alive, then ESPN has no excuse for not doing the same.

Again: I'm glad MLB is putting the screws to ESPN here. Because if this were Joe Blow releasing the info--even accidentally because the damn Braves-Marlins game went eight hours too long--it certainly would yank his credentials..

 

They probably pulled it off the wire.

 

Speaking of the wire, I'm really kind of amazed and ticked that AP has not chosen to address this. At all.

 

Address which part of it?

 

Just the fact that ESPN has been banned from the site. I would think that's worth a story.

 

Honestly, does anyone outside the media care?

 

I'm as big as anyone on us not being the story, but yeah, I think this is eye-popping enough. I know I'd certainly make a point of getting it into our daily notes package.

 

True enough.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-all-stars-espn&prov=ap&type=lgns

There's your AP story.

I don't know how the logistics of satellites and broadcast feeds work, but would it be possible for ESPN to just broadcast their Baseball Tonight show from somewhere else in San Francisco, away from the stadium?

 

So AP effed up, too. Had a feeling all along that's what happened.

 

It's easily done, but MLB controls that, too, if I'm not mistaken.

 

And really, if you could do that and did, wouldn't you just be escalating the war? Maybe ESPN just wants to take its medicine and move on.