{"id":952780,"date":"2026-11-04T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/952780\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:18:22","slug":"mlb-reverses-cancellation-of-intentional-talk-after-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/952780\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB reverses cancellation of \u2018Intentional Talk\u2019 after outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Intentional Talk\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4TRP6P6CGZFU3LLXKCYLCT7ZVQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Last month\u2019s decision to cancel MLB Network\u2019s \u201cIntentional Talk\u201d studio show after 16 seasons reportedly \u201chas been reversed.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Last month\u2019s decision to cancel MLB Network\u2019s \u201cIntentional Talk\u201d studio show after 16 seasons \u201chas been reversed,\u201d according to sources cited by THE ATHLETIC. Before the reversal, the program\u2019s final episode was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. \u201cIntentional Talk\u201d features Kevin Millar, Ryan Dempster and Siera Santos. They are \u201cexpected to discuss the decision\u201d at 4pm ET on MLB Network. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Deputy Commissioner\/ Business &amp; Media Noah Garden, and other executives \u201creversed the decision after an overwhelming groundswell of support from fans and players\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7753453\/2026\/11\/04\/mlb-intentional-talk-rob-manfred-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THE ATHLETIC, 11\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month\u2019s decision to cancel MLB Network\u2019s \u201cIntentional Talk\u201d studio show after 16 seasons reportedly \u201chas been reversed.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,86804,85],"class_list":["post-952780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-network","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952780","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=952780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}