Word on the street is that this is the last year of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. Will you miss it?
ESPN is an easy target. Well, sometimes they make themselves that way. ESPN is opting out of its MLB media rights deal. They have been winding down the number of games they have shown on its network. They’ve slowly become a NFL and NBA network with a smattering of other options over the last 15 years. This is regardless of the bath that they took on the NBA rights deal. The days of watching Baseball Tonight and naturally sticking around for Sunday Night Baseball are long past with the number of options to see highlights. ESPN was so much fun in the 1990s and early 2000s.
So if Sunday Night Baseball goes away, will you miss it? As a cord-cutter, I really won’t. If they could work it out so that you could still see it on mlb.tv as well, it wouldn’t matter to me. I’m not crazy about when the Braves hate to play Sunday nights, but this year the travel from San Diego to Los Angeles afterward isn’t awful.
But hey, if the Braves win tonight, you won’t hear me complain.
Daily Notes
Record: 0-3
Yesterday’s wOBA and xwOBA: .243 | .277 (Season rank: 24th | 23rd)
Yesterday’s wOBA and xwOBA allowed: .184 | .215 (Season rank: 17th | 6th)
Yesterday’s homers: 0
Yesterday’s homers allowed: 0
Record when out-xwOBAing: 0-2 (League: 24-13)
Record when out-xwOBAed: 0-1 (League: 13-24)
Record when out-wOBAing: 0-1 (League: 31-7)
Record when out-wOBAed: 0-2 (League: 7-31)
Record when outhomering: 0-1 (League: 21-4)
Record when outhomered: 0-1 (League: 4-21)