{"id":523733,"date":"2026-01-16T16:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/523733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:38:16","slug":"masn-is-finally-trying-to-deliver-real-spring-training-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/523733\/","title":{"rendered":"MASN is finally trying to deliver real spring training coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A headline from this website in February of each of the past three years:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They were nothing if not consistent. Along with revealing a sad, single-digit number of spring games to be broadcast, they also waited until pretty much the last minute to do it. The pattern has finally been broken in 2026, with the Orioles on Thursday &#8211; more than a month ahead of the first spring game! &#8211; announcing that there will be 20 spring training games broadcast on MASN this year. 20 games!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">From the first spring training game on February 20 to the final exhibition against the Nationals in Washington on March 23, there are 30 days that will have the Orioles play a game. Including games that will be broadcast on the radio, 23 of those days will have home coverage. <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Forioles%2Fschedule%2F2026-02\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can check the Orioles official schedule<\/a> to see which spring games have a TV or radio broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We will actually get to participate in the spring ritual that other teams fans have done for a number of years, of seeing the lineup gradually take shape and of seeing the prospects who will hopefully be appearing in the next couple of years getting time early on in camp. I\u2019m excited about it. Watching other team spring broadcasts, when available, is not a substitute. Those crews don\u2019t know much and care even less about what\u2019s going on with the Orioles, who the younger players appearing might be and what their stores are, or anything that an Orioles fan would care about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s probably not a coincidence that this broadcast schedule was announced precisely one day after the long-simmering Orioles-Nationals MASN divorce was finally made official. At The Baltimore Banner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/orioles-mlb\/orioles-spring-training-games-tv-masn-DZ6LCMCF6ZAITC6K6HCREGNEKU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Kostka wrote that<\/a> \u201cpart of the change is down to the Nationals departing MASN this week,\u201d although there\u2019s nothing to indicate what considerations are different now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As long as the Nationals were around, the network had to offer equal coverage to those two teams and it seems due to either economic factors or spite, now that they are out of the picture, the network is willing to do more, even if \u201cmore\u201d still isn\u2019t as good as it should be. For this year, I\u2019ll take the progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A headline from this website in February of each of the past three years: They were nothing if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,38868,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-523733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles-commentary-analysis","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115905764227236881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}