This isn’t an advertisement, not in the usual sense. No one asked me to do it. I’m not getting paid for it, beyond my normal paycheck for services completely unrelated to talking about other sports that NBC carries. I didn’t even know it was happening until I opened a Sunday newsletter from Front Office Sports.
NBC and Peacock will televise every MLB team on Sunday. All 30 of them, through 15 games under the the big-tailed bird’s roof. (All but three are entirely exclusive to NBC and Peacock.)
Mets-Braves starts at noon ET on NBC. Padres-Dodgers begins at 7:00 p.m. ET on NBC. The other 13 games are on Peacock. I’ll check out Pirates-National at 1:00 p.m. ET, since there’s no World Cup match until 4:00 p.m. ET.
See? It’s not an ad. In the sports world’s rock-paper-scissors, soccer wins for me over baseball. But the idea of any network having all of the Major League Baseball games as part of the nation’s 250th birthday weekend caught my eye.
Would it have prompted a post if it was on some other network? No. Would it have caught my eye if NBC and Peacock were televising Saturday’s display of competitive gluttony, prompting multiple company-man tweets? Hell no. (Seriously, who likes watching someone else eat even at normal speed?)
Today, relish a hot dog or two — with relish. And kick back and watch your favorite baseball team on NBC or Peacock.
