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Jamaal510

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1. What's interesting

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 10:21 PM

Feb 2015

is that the two teams fighting for the final playoff AL spot barely got any ESPN airtime. The A's, for example, had won 2 consecutive division titles, but never got as much love from ESPN as the struggling Cubs in those 2 years. Also Seattle and Toronto were up and coming last year (unlike New York and Boston), yet they never got airtime on ESPN at all. There seems to be a trend here--not necessarily about how good teams are--but more towards how big their market is. This is why I miss MLBTV whenever I'm away from home; they do a better job of giving all 30 teams a more equal amount of airtime. ESPN has a big market bias and is like the FOX News of sports.

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What's interesting Jamaal510 Feb 2015 #1

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