ESPN Will REPLACE Sunday Night Baseball With Women Sports

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This is one way to tank your ratings.

ESPN has announced it will replace its Sunday Night Baseball lineup with Women’s Sports.

The move by ESPN coincides with the sports media company’s decision to opt out of its contract with the MLB.

Baseball fans are not happy about it:

Breitbart had more to report on ESPN’s eyebrow-raising move:

In a move highly unlikely to succeed, ESPN has announced it intends to replace Sunday Night Baseball with Women’s Sports Sunday, Variety reported.

ESPN plans to feature the WNBA, the National Women’s Soccer League, women’s college basketball, softball, and all things women’s sports.

The network made the move official on Thursday.

“The move follows ESPN’s near-breakup with Major League Baseball,” Front Office Sports’ Michael McCarthy wrote. “The longtime business partners mutually agreed to opt out of their seven-year, $550 million rights deal three seasons early last February. They later came together with a reworked deal that includes a national 30-game midweek package and the rights to sell and distribute MLB.TV’s out-of-market streaming service. ESPN is paying roughly the same for its new deal at $550 million annually.”

ESPN sees the end of its deal with MLB as an opportunity to push women’s sports to the forefront.

It looks like the satire website, The Babylon Bee’s joke, came into reality:

The New York Post reported where the MLB games will now be aired:

ESPN said in its statement that it will announce matches, talent and other details at a later date.

This summer will be the first time in 36 years that the network will not have “Sunday Night Baseball” in its programming portfolio.

Sunday night MLB games will now air on NBC, which is still filling out its broadcast roster. Former MLB stars Joey Votto and Anthony Rizzo are both expected to play roles in the network’s coverage.

It’s an end of an era.



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