Boog Sciambi: MLB made a 'major mistake' in losing media rights deal with ESPN

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00:00Look, the league made a mistake, right, because the league was the one that initially offered

00:07or asked for the opt-out, and then ultimately ESPN got one as well, and yeah, it was a major

00:17mistake because if they hadn't done an opt-out, MLB would be locked into $550 million for,

00:24you know, this year plus two or three more years, so I think that they can go back to

00:28the table. It's not done until it's done. I would personally say this. I think the league

00:36probably needs ESPN a little bit more than vice versa. I think whatever you want to say

00:42about ESPN and how it's changed, and even, you know, if you don't like it as much as

00:48you used to, it is still the place that sports fans go to watch games, and if you think about

00:56how the NHL was covered or was not covered by ESPN when it wasn't on the network, I mean,

01:03it disappeared off the face of the planet, and I just think that if you're baseball,

01:09there are going to be times when people would stumble onto baseball games because people

01:14put the channel on. So, I mean, look, it's a fact that if you put the exact same event

01:21on at the exact same time on ESPN and on TBS and on TNT, it will rate higher every

01:28single time on ESPN because it's just got more reach. So, ultimately, I think that the

01:37league and ESPN will still get together. My guess is that they probably will still do

01:43something. I'm not going to say 100 percent, but I, and if they don't, it's disappointing

01:49and a disappointing end and certainly affects me, but I'm doing it this year. I'm doing

01:55Sunday nights on the radio, and I'm calling the playoffs on TV and the playoffs in World

02:00Series on radio, and we'll see, but they basically have, you know, a year to figure this thing

02:06out, and I hope they do.