Why is ESPN so Obsessed with the Choakland A's?

[Ohtaniland]

ESPN keeps showing the Oakland A's just like @ngelswin keeps advertising Dodgers tickets.

[Inside Pitch]

I don't hate ESPN but for awhile now I have just gone to MLB network for all things baseball.

 

Same, I think the only time in the last year I've watched Baseball Tonight this year has been on Sunday's and only before a late Angels game.  I give MLB a lot of props, they have done a really good job with their network. 

[Stradling]

I remember being a kid and being upset at the Dodger coverage vs the Angels coverage on the local news. Then I would get upset at the coverage of the Angels vs other teams on Sports Center. Now days I don't care because of the internet, the fact that all games are televised and things like MLB app, where all the great plays are available when I am traveling.

[eligrba]

The A's, Mariners and ? competing for the wildcard slots are more compelling than the Angels continually winning.

 

Good. I hope the Angels continue to win and remain boring to ESPN.

[floplag]

ESPN barely covers baseball except when it has too, and for whatever reason we are certainly not the preferred team there.
They cover NBA D league games and football training camps to try to avoid baseball.
Like every other television network, its about ratings instead of quality
 

[JAHV76]

College and Pro football are the top ratings for ESPN. Baseball pays the bills until football season starts. The network really doesn't care about baseball. MLB network is so much better.

[Angel Oracle]

All that you need to know about BSPN baseball is Chris Berman.

MLBNetwork >>>>>>>>>> BSPN

[Redondo]

one way to make life very hard on them is for this team to win multiple WS over the next few years, all the while Trout punishes the league. 

 

This is what needs to happen. 

 

Agree. This is the best way to change how they look at us

[Kenny]

I live my life without ESPN, except when a game is on the channel, or to look at scores, and I couldn't be more happy about that.

[Blarg]

ESPN is 80% owned by the Walt Disney Company. They kinda don't like us because of the territorial battle for all of that Anaheim property.

 

They should hold a grudge against Oakland because Moneyball was a Sony Pictures movie.

[Blarg]

The same reason Titanic made so much money at the box office

 

People love watching a  good disaster 

 

Or Di Caprio drown.

[disarcina]

because it is a significant baseball story:

 

the genius Billy Beane has made a major miscalculation on the Lester trade.

 

trading away Cespedes placed the A's on a downward spiral that could have been clearly foreseen.

 

I continue to believe that this trade is so UN- Billy Beane like that something's up with Cespedes during the off-season.........

 

The A's played so well all season and the contrast of the team record after the Cespedes for Lester (and others) trade is so striking -- it is a big story.

 

ESPN should cover it -- besides -- when have we ever complained here about ESPN FINALLY giving significant coverage to the West Coast team(s).

 

Which raises another reason for the coverage -- EVEN ESPN REALIZES THAT NEW YORK YANKEES AND BOSTON RED SOX NOT WORTH MUCH COVERAGE RIGHT NOW -- although expect more non-stop BREAKING NEWS like coverage of Jeter's final games........

 

As for Jeter -- having watched the Yankees games much lately, but my pal, a huge Yankees fan from way back and a "Jeter is the best of all time' kind of hype guy even admits now that 1.) that Yankees are not worth watching right now and that Jeter's 'farewell' tour has turned into an old-timer's game during the second half.......he suggested they give him a wheel chair as his parting gift..........but then he's overly critical, cynical like the rest of us.

[John Taylor]

Its ESPN's East Bay bias...

[ScottT]

Why are ____ fans obsessed with "fair" and equal coverage from businesses that want to turn a profit?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

"Well, I guess there is only one thing left to do. Win the whole f'n thing."

 

- Jake Taylor, Major League

[Mark68]

Relax, people. The Oakland/Seattle series with the wild card up in the air certainly has more intrigue than the Angels/Astros series, where one team has all but wrapped up the division and the other has been an also-ran for years.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I don't hate ESPN but for awhile now I have just gone to MLB network for all things baseball.

 

I have all but stopped watching Baseball Tonight and their constant pandering to the Yankees and Red Sox (even though it became abundantly clear long ago that neither of them will sniff the post-season in 2014).