re: Why does ESPN hate college baseball?

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I’ve been saying this for years. Same thing with women’s basketball.

They have been promoting the shite out of women’s sports for a while now.

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Every month, a bunch of VPs/directors at ESPN's office view a report that tells them what ratings each type of programming brought along with the demographic data across viewers.

If that data indicates that college baseball viewership has plateaued, and that women's basketball's or softball's hasn't, they're going to put it on and hype it up.

And the data probably says that growing in the female demographic is the only way ESPN will survive long enough to pay the SEC what it owes over the life of its contract.