The Major League Baseball season officially starts Sunday, April 5, 2015. Looking at the national broadcast schedule http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/broadcasts/national.jsp?tcid=mm_mlb_schedule, there are a lot of New York Yankees games scheduled for national broadcast. Why is this, you ask, since the Yankees did not do well last year? Well, Alex Rodriguez http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodrial01.shtml ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Rodriguez is returning to the Yankees line up after a year-long suspension for Performance Enhancing Drug violations. Alex Rodriguez is a highly paid, high profile baseball player. He succeeds in making headlines and bringing publicity, good and bad, to the Yankees. It is my guess, since it is early in the season, and the national broadcast channels do not have favorites, or front runners to focus on, they concentrate on teams that have headline or controversial stories regarding their play. And the Yankees do meet this criteria.
The Boston Red Sox will be in a few nationally televised games. As is traditional, the Red Sox will be playing a late morning start day game on the celebration of Patriot's Day, April 20, 2015 http://mlb.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=bos#y=2015&m=4&calendar=DEFAULT. Red Sox baseball and the Boston Marathon are all a traditional part of Patriot's Day. I am surprised this will not be nationally televised, as the trial of the Boston Marathon bomber will have been recently decided, and would make good national interest background information during the game. But maybe Major League Baseball wants to stay out of that. We know the Red Sox were hugely involved in support of B Strong after the tragedy of the bombing http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/david-ortiz-speech-boston-red-sox_n_3124187.html.
As an outcast from the regional broadcasts of both teams, I will have to count on the national broadcasts, and the online reports that I will access. Internet has made following these teams much easier than counting on the newspaper.
Go Red Sox!
Go Yankees!
Go Baseball!
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