In an effort to change the time of the July 8 “Sunday Night Baseball” telecast, the Yankees are threatening to boycott ESPN personnel all year, according to sources with knowledge of the team’s thinking.
“It is a tool in the toolbox,” one source said.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone, a former ESPN analyst, has been vocal in saying that the July 8 game in Toronto that was pushed back from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m should be reversed to its original time.
The Yankees play a make-up doubleheader in Baltimore the next day whose first game was originally scheduled for 4 p.