{"id":82573,"date":"2025-08-20T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82573\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:59:09","slug":"how-bad-is-an-espn-takeover-of-mlb-tv-going-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82573\/","title":{"rendered":"How bad is an ESPN takeover of MLB.tv going to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Good morning! Or, more specifically, good morning to everyone but the people potentially involved in selling off MLB.tv to ESPN, as reported by Kendall Baker yesterday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As someone that\u2019s been an MLB.tv subscriber since the first year it was available (it launched on my birthday in 2002), and who has basically eschewed ESPN for about 15 years now, the MLB.tv part is kind of horrifying. Sure, ESPN could simply leave the product as is, but given the way this year has gone in all respects, I fear the worst. ESPN\/other sport integration I don\u2019t want, gambling integration that will make my blood boil, and probably other things I haven\u2019t thought of yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Some of you probably don\u2019t rely on MLB.tv at all. You may be the lucky ones going forward. If you do rely on MLB.tv, though, how bad do you think this is going to get?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning! Or, more specifically, good morning to everyone but the people potentially involved in selling off MLB.tv&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,1325,591,85],"class_list":["post-82573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-general","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}