ESPN's coverage of Monday Night Baseball is not subject to blackout in local markets, which normally national coverage of a team is blacked out in their local TV market. Starting back in 2007, ESPN's coverage and the coverage on an RSN will be able to "co-exist" up to three times a season.
Case in point, last night's ESPN's coverage of the Twins/Yankees game was not blacked out in Central Iowa, it was available on both ESPN & FS North and in the event the Twins appear on ESPN's Monday Night Baseball, it may possibly be on both ESPN & FS North. I'm not sure if ESPN has to get permission from the local RSN to do a co-exist telecast or not.
This policy is for Monday night games only and the Wednesday night games on ESPN/ESPN2 will be blacked out in the competing team's home TV market.
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