ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule sets Yankees up to look like little brother

The ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule has officially dropped for the first half of the 2025 MLB season and, would you look at that? It seems the New York Yankees will be losing between one and two times on national television.

Clearly set up to be pawns in someone else's game, the Yankees will appear in just two of the first 14 matchups in primetime on the Worldwide Leader, though July 6's early game remains unannounced.

Shockingly, neither Yankees matchup involves the Red Sox, further proof that the game's previous dominant rivalry is simmering on the back burner a little bit. Boston only appears on the calendar once, facing off against the St. Louis Cardinals on April 6, a game that will undoubtedly make diehards and skeptics alike say, "What?"

Instead of sending the Yankees to a veritable Fenway death march under the bright, drunken lights, ESPN's producers have unfortunately cooked up something way worse. The Yankees are currently scheduled to reunite with Juan Soto in a Subway Series finale in the Bronx, then will travel to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers two weeks later on June 1. And may I say ... no!

Yankees' 2025 ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule features Mets, Dodgers, poor play from the Yankees

We get it. ESPN wants to showcase premium matchups, and who's more "premium" than the New York G-D Yankees? Unfortunately, ESPN also seems to have a Yankees Humiliation Fetish, given that they've exclusively spotlit games where New York will square off with:

• Juan Soto, who will kill them

and

• The team that embarrassed them/set them back a decade in the World Series, who will kill them

Come on, Karl Ravech. Couldn't have primed the pump with a little Yankees-Blue Jays action at the end of April? Couldn't have figured out a way to send us to Anaheim on a Sunday evening, just like back in the old days? I've heard Minnesota's nice this time of year. Which time of year? I don't care! It'd be preferable to the slate they've currently got locked in.

Sadly, it seems likely Yankees fans will have to accept being the butt of the joke once again, at least in the season's first half. But, hey, they brought it on themselves. Win some championships and the emotional beatings will cease. For now, the Dodgers are the new Yankees anyhow.