If you get a chance today, you should really check out the
NY Times'* interactive maps of baseball fandom. As always, they do great work and you can spend hours of your work day zooming in and out and learning stuff.
However, if you don't have that kind of time, I've taken the liberty of including the some of the most important maps in these here bolg post:
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Wow that's pretty harsh, NYT
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| Wharton v Jortin |
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| Not really sure what they're trying to say with this one, but that guy looks familiar |
* A publication I was
once featured in, if you recall
LOLMets! From the article:
ReplyDelete"There’s no other way to put it: The Yankees are the preferred team everywhere in New York City, and nearly everywhere in the U.S. over the Mets (in more than 98 percent of ZIP codes nationwide). One small Mets bright spot, if you want to call it that, is that in the area in Queens surrounding Citi Field, where the Mets play, Facebook users had the courtesy to prefer what some call the Evil Empire at a slightly reduced rate relative to its advantage elsewhere in New York."
Of course they are, people are mostly band-wagon fans who "root" for winners. Every casual baseball fan or non-baseball fan is a yankee fan.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be true that casual fans in unaffiliated areas tended to break for the Yankees, but now the Red Sox have caught up or passed the Yankees in a number of those spots. Another bandwagon effect of recent RS championships.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankee dynasty will live forever.
ReplyDeleteThan Yankees are 1600's England--once a worldwide power--now, just an also-ran who pretends they're still at the top. You are the AOL of baseball teams.
DeleteAnd you are the dumbf*ck of anonymous posts - the Phillies are the also-ran of the MLB garbage fire
DeleteIf the Yankees are AOL then the Phillies are ENRON.
DeleteWith such a large population outflow from NY and bandwagon followers, of course you have to figure a lot of Yankee fans across the country. How much of the Red Sox popularity is similar or just that a lot of people just hate the Yankees...lol.
ReplyDeleteClassic Philly trash - go choke on a hoagie and butt f*ck each other behind a Wawa somewhere
ReplyDeleteYou mad bro?
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