ESPN has once again concluded that Independence Day is a day for great American sports programming. For example, it’s showing the 2013 Hot Dog Eating Contest in NYC and a Canadian Football League Game from Montreal.

Where’s baseball, ostensibly America’s Pastime? Dunno. “The Worldwide Leader in Sports” can’t be bothered to broadcast any Major League Baseball games on any of its networks on this holiday.

This isn’t a new practice to ESPN, but I’m still astonished when they do it. Back 10 or 15 years ago they’d have four baseball games on one after another. Not anymore.