How come sometimes they can't show highlights on ESPN of baseball games until the games are over but sometimes

Question

they can?

Answer 1

This actually is a good question.

Showing highlights of a game IN PROGRESS is considered as broadcasting that game -- and since nearly every game has exclusive rights, that is a legalistic no-no. (The author remembers a time back in 1990 or 1991, when Nolan Ryan was pitching one of his last two no-hitters (or maybe it was just a threatening no-hitter), and the Royals put it on their big ballpark screen, and the production crew broadcast a shot of the screen showing the Ryan game. They caught some flack for that.)

ESPN's Baseball Tonight is different. If BBT is casting live, it is allowed to show highlights of any game, even those in progress; and it can cut to any game if a potentially noteworthy moment is at hand. (Kids, you had to be there; the night in 1991 Valenzuela and Stewart both threw no-hitters, we got to see the ninth inning of each game. This, to a baseball fan, was as close to heaven as it got.)

If the ESPN contract is, in this respect, still similar to the original 1990 deal, Baseball Tonight is given especial grace to show (parts of) games live. Not even SportsCenter gets that awesome access.

And that, to the best of my knowledge, is why sometimes we get to see bits of games in progress.

Answer 2

they only show highlight of the games when they are over of the teams they don't care about, like the m's or the a's. and they show every update of the f'n yankees and redsox because they like those stupid teams

Answer 3

Uhh..Because you see if you multiply X by 3 it would equal 7 thus equaling the square root of pie.