Major League Baseball threw out the first pitch tonight and guess who ESPN featured on the ol’ boob tube: you guessed it, Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees.
The defending champion Yankees blew a late 7-5 lead to fall to the rival BoSox 9-7, but that’s not why I’m writing about it.
I’m writing about it because Seattle’s 7-1 win over the San Francisco Giants wasn’t televised.
Yeah, I know, here I go again. East Coast bias, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Nah, EastSidePN is getting better. After all, they have SportsCenter from the West Coast now, right? Everything’s peachy, ESPN’s doing great. It’s just a left wing nut trying to make some noise on the West Coast.
BUT, the numbers don’t lie, and national TV stations covering MLB this season are still slanted toward the right (coast that is).
A look at MLB.com’s latest national broadcast schedule, of games televised by ESPN, ESPN2, Fox, TBS and MLB Network, shows what I’m talking about.
Team TV Games
New York Yankees 24
Boston Red Sox 24
Los Angeles Dodgers 15 (1 vs. NYY, 1 vs. Bos)
L.A. Angels 13 (3 vs. NYY, 1 vs. Bos)
S.F. Giants 10
Oakland Athletics 3
San Diego Padres 3
Note: The Red Sox and Yankees play each other on national TV at least seven times this season (expect more), which is more than the Athletics and Padres will be on TV combined. ESPN and Co. better hope those teams suck this year.
Yah, I totally HATE it when they show the 2 best teams playing each other. How dare you ESPN! How dare you! More Padres-Giants games, please!