Yankees Flacks Mad at ESPN

Published: October 19, 2007, 11:41 am

Filed under: New York, Yankees, AL East, MLB Media Watch, ESPNIf you're looking for a decent reason why so many people seem to love the Yankees, even though they were born in, oh, I don't know, Akron, OH, look no further than ESPN. Its willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty in broadcasting Yankees and Red Sox news -- and their usual 15 or so in-season match ups -- is unmatched anywhere else in media. Whether the demand for East Coast baseball news came first, or whether ESPN created it ... well, that's a bit chicken-egg, isn't it? But now ... the Yankees are actually mad at ESPN. And so Rome was toppled? Via Awful Announcing: The conference call yesterday during which Yankees executives announced the end of the Joe Torre era was surprisingly matter-of-fact and unemotional. The fact that a national television audience was able to hear it live, though, produced a reaction from the team that was anything but calm. Media relations director Jason Zillo reacted angrily to the

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