Thursday, June 4, 2009

Jesse Sanchez reports renewal of MLB TV deals overseas

Jesse Sanchez, one of the best, reporting at MLB.com:

America's national pastime has gone global and the world will keep watching.

On Monday, Major League Baseball International renewed broadcast agreements with Japan, Venezuela and Canada and added a new contract for Australia.

When I was in the DR last summer, there was an MLB game on free, network television more or less every night of the week. Mostly it was the Mets, Yankees, Red Sox and the Reds (who were running out Johnny Cueto and Edinson Volquez two nights out of five); for what it's worth, seemed to me that the announcers were less inane/more honest, which perception I attributed to their distance from and lack of dependancy on the teams and players, but could have just been my imcomplete grasp of the Spanish...

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