00:00But ESPN just died.
00:02Did you happen to see that story?
00:04What do you mean ESPN just died?
00:06ESPN just passed away.
00:08It's a wrap for what used to be the worldwide leader.
00:11That's over with. That's done.
00:13I feel bad because we all kind of grew up on SportsCenter
00:17and, you know, they got the football package.
00:19They became mainstream.
00:20And, you know, for the last, what, 15 years or so,
00:22had Sunday night baseball, for those of us that love majoring baseball.
00:26Yeah, well, that's dead. ESPN just died.
00:28It's official.
00:30Disney just killed ESPN.
00:31Well, how? Wait a minute. How?
00:33Are you sure? I'm not seeing.
00:35No, I'm positive.
00:35I'm looking on Twitter right now.
00:37I don't see anything about the death of what happened.
00:39You don't see it?
00:39I don't see that.
00:40No.
00:41No one's reporting that they died.
00:42Andrew Marchand didn't write a story about how ESPN,
00:45Disney just killed ESPN.
00:47It's done?
00:47Off all your cable providers?
00:49No.
00:50No.
00:50No.
00:51I follow Andrew Marchand.
00:52He didn't say that.
00:53I'm looking at his page right now.
00:55He didn't say it because I guess it wasn't his story.
00:57But I'll give it to you right now.
00:59Okay.
00:59ESPN just announced they are replacing their summer Sunday night baseball package,
01:05which NBC has now.
01:06Yeah, they lost that.
01:07Right.
01:07They lost that one fair and square.
01:09Yeah, well, because they don't care about baseball.
01:10They never have in reality.
01:12They've never done a good job covering baseball because they don't like baseball.
01:16That being the case, they have replaced summer Sunday night baseball,
01:19and good job of NBC taking it.
01:21NBC's backing it in a big way.
01:23Yeah.
01:24They're replacing it with something that they're calling Women's Sports Sundays.
01:29Okay.
01:30Sorry.
01:31What do you mean?
01:33Well, so they're going to have...
01:34Excuse me?
01:35So they're going to have, like...
01:36Yeah, they're going to use Sunday primetime.
01:39Yeah, with sports, sir.
01:40So I guess primetime is after 7 o'clock.
01:42Yeah.
01:43On Sunday nights, which is a huge television audience, as you know.
01:45Yeah.
01:46But this summer, they're going to replace their baseball coverage with WNBA games.
01:53They're going to have, their words, not mine, a bespoke studio experience.
02:00I don't know what that means.
02:01I don't know what that means.
02:02Other than it's the death of ESPN.
02:05And my phone's acting up.
02:07I'm saying they're going to have NWSL games.
02:10I have no idea what that even stands for.
02:11That's the women's soccer.
02:12Excuse me?
02:12That's the women's soccer league.
02:14That's the pro women's soccer league.
02:14She's replacing Major League Baseball with women's soccer.
02:18Yeah, Trinity Rodman, for example.
02:20Yeah, I know she's the highest-paid female soccer player on the planet.
02:23Yeah, she'll think she plays in that league.
02:24Is she playing on every team in every game?
02:26No, she's not playing on every team.
02:27No, she's not, right?
02:27She plays for one team.
02:28And women's soccer ratings suck.
02:31They've always sucked.
02:31They're always going to suck.
02:33By the way, men's soccer ratings suck, too.
02:36Soccer doesn't do well in this country.
02:37It never has.
02:38It never will.
02:39The men's is doing better now with that.
02:40Yeah.
02:41But if you want to find the watershed moment
02:44when Disney actually killed ESPN,
02:46what's today's date?
02:47February 19th?
02:48Yeah.
02:49February 19th, 2026.
02:51After a 35-year-old Sunday programming mainstay,
02:56they have now decided to go to Women's Sports Sundays.
02:59I want to be clear.
02:59This is not a knock on the fabulously talented women
03:02that play professional sports.
03:04They are very good at what they do
03:06when compared to other women, obviously, right?
03:09Yeah.
03:09But the reality is that there's never been a television audience for it
03:13until Caitlin Clark started playing basketball in the WNBA,
03:17and they have record-setting numbers both in attendance
03:20and in viewership.
03:22To her credit and the league's credit,
03:24they capitalized, although they try to kill her every step of the way,
03:27they've capitalized on her popularity.
03:30But now you're going to get a nine-week run all summer long in a –
03:35by the way, what does that mean?
03:37A bespoke studio programming.
03:39I don't know what that means.
03:40I don't even know what that means.
03:41I don't know what that means.
03:42All right.
03:43What does that mean?
03:44You're going to have a bunch of, like,
03:45non-binary transgendered athletes commentating on athletics?
03:49I don't believe that that's what it means.
03:50I don't know what it means.
03:51I don't know.
03:51But it's going to be WNBA games.
03:54It's going to be, well, that soccer league you talked about.
03:57And it's effectively going to kill off ESPN.
04:00So there you go.
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