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Ben McDonald: “Wasn’t Aware” ESPN Had A Contract With Hockey
"If I have a choice between the beginning of hockey season and October baseball, I’m probably leaning slightly towards playoff baseball to be honest with you"
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Says New Rights Deals Are Agreed to “In Principle”
"We kind of have agreements in principle. We still have issues that need to be resolved"
ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro: We’ve Made Good Progress on New MLB Rights Agreement Discussions
"I would say since then, we've made good progress. I don't want to go farther than that, but we've certainly made good progress with Rob and his team"
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Hopes To Announce New TV Deals in “A Couple Weeks”
"We’re having very detailed conversations with a number of parties, including ESPN"
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Believes New Media Rights Deal Will Be Completed Shortly
"I was hoping it was going to be done by now, but it’ll be shortly. We made real progress"
Tim Kurkjian Credits Dan Le Batard for Results of ‘Looks Like’ Game
"I’ve covered the game for 45 years, and more people want to talk to me about this than anything else."
A.J. Pierzynski: MLB Missed Opportunity to Showcase Skenes vs Skubal in Primetime
"I understand, ‘Oh, they want to try and win one,’ but for the people."
MLB Commissioner Sets Goal For Securing New Media Rights Agreement
“I’m hopeful that in the next few weeks, prior to the All-Star Game, we get something done.”
Why Dan Shulman Stepped Away From ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ to Stay With the Toronto Blue Jays
"Every game we do is national, and the Blue Jays have a tremendous number of fans in British Columbia, and they have a tremendous number of fans in Newfoundland and everywhere in-between."
NBCUniversal Submits Bid for MLB Broadcast Rights: Report
The report indicates that the NBC offer was made earlier in the month but that the two sides had been talking for several weeks prior.