Up Close on Baseball’s Borders.......Agree? Disagree?

Super Mario · Apr 24, 2014

In the link there are more maps that are close-ups to specific areas.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24-upshot-baseball.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

A_Pharis · Apr 24, 2014

Poor 'Stros. I love you guys.

clarkzac · Apr 24, 2014

A_Pharis said:
Poor 'Stros. I love you guys.

At least they are on the map. I don't see the white sox

A_Pharis · Apr 24, 2014

clarkzac said:
At least they are on the map. I don't see the white sox

Nor the Mets.

Super Mario · Apr 24, 2014

They might be in a close-up in the link.

clarkzac · Apr 24, 2014

Super Mario said:
They might be in a close-up in the link.

Good point. I don't feel like opening the link on mobile right now

MansGame · Apr 24, 2014

Pretty close. All of Texas behind the Rangers lol

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Hawk8 · Apr 24, 2014

Pretty interesting map

jbhofmann · Apr 24, 2014

A's and Mets have it the worst. In Alameda the A's don't even have the majority. There is not one single county for the A's or Mets.

AmishDave · Apr 24, 2014

Huge Cubbies presence in AZ & FL too (all the old folks and snow birds).

smapdi · Apr 24, 2014

Very interesting. Only 26 teams show up on the top-level map, but I guess that's to be expected. I can attest to the Rangers/Astros dominance. At the exhibition game in SA last month, which is about equidistant from eitehr DFW or Houston, t-shirt/cap polling had Rangers ahead 10:1 over the Astros. Drilled down into Oakland, and it doesn't look like the A's break 25% anywhere, even right outside the stadium. And seems like the Yankees or Red Sox have 4-5% at least everywhere. The most surprising thing for me is down in Louisiana it's mostly Yankees with the highest plurality ~25%, but there are several teams that show up in the teens, Braves, Red Sox, Rangers, Cardinals, even the Cubs down on the fringes of the Gulf.

Heh. Plymouth County, MA: 86% Red Sox, 5% Yankees, 1% Tigers. Detroit's doing something right.

PoseyBuster · Apr 24, 2014

smapdi said:
Very interesting. Only 26 teams show up on the top-level map, but I guess that's to be expected. I can attest to the Rangers/Astros dominance. At the exhibition game in SA last month, which is about equidistant from eitehr DFW or Houston, t-shirt/cap polling had Rangers ahead 10:1 over the Astros. Drilled down into Oakland, and it doesn't look like the A's break 25% anywhere, even right outside the stadium. And seems like the Yankees or Red Sox have 4-5% at least everywhere. The most surprising thing for me is down in Louisiana it's mostly Yankees with the highest plurality ~25%, but there are several teams that show up in the teens, Braves, Red Sox, Rangers, Cardinals, even the Cubs down on the fringes of the Gulf.

Heh. Plymouth County, MA: 86% Red Sox, 5% Yankees, 1% Tigers. Detroit's doing something right.

Well, to be honest, the people who live right around the stadium are more interested in rap music, fake chains, and big booty hoes than baseball.

Austin · Apr 24, 2014

Apparently, Oahu is full of Yankees, Red Sox, Giants and Dodgers fans.
I guess that's accurate. Shane Victorino of the Red Sox has a massive fanbase in Hawaii. There are tons of Giants and Dodgers fans here because we get all of the Dodgers (and Angels) televised games. And we get all the Giants games on Radio.
I probably see people wearing Giants caps and shirts more than any other team.
And the Yankees are popular here too. I see a bunch of NY caps.
Seattle also has a big fanbase here. Not so much the Padres and Angels.

Austin · Apr 24, 2014

PoseyBuster said:
Well, to be honest, the people who live right around the stadium are more interested in rap music, fake chains, and big booty hoes than baseball.

"LA face with an Oakland booty." - Sir Mix-a-lot approves of your post

PoseyBuster · Apr 24, 2014

Austin said:
"LA face with an Oakland booty." - Sir Mix-a-lot approves of your post

Glad someone picked that up

Pine Tar · Apr 25, 2014

clarkzac said:
At least they are on the map. I don't see the white sox

That is because the Cubs have been on WGN and seem to be a larger market team then the Whitesox always has been

A_Pharis said:
Nor the Mets.

Yesterday Sam posted how the game a Shaitie field was not even sold out. Seems the same thing as the Cubs. The Yankees are a larger Market team and have won more world Series so that is why it appears on that map more

aarne13 · Apr 25, 2014

I guess there are no fans in the Great White North :/

Super Mario · Apr 25, 2014

Pine Tar said:
That is because the Cubs have been on WGN and seem to be a larger market team then the Whitesox always has been

Yesterday Sam posted how the game a Shaitie field was not even sold out. Seems the same thing as the Cubs. The Yankees are a larger Market team and have won more world Series so that is why it appears on that map more

It was pathetic how few people were there considering the population of NYC.

Super Mario · Apr 25, 2014

I would like to see a map like this before the Giants and Dodgers moved west.

The Cardinals fan base stretched far west because of radio station KMOX.

PadresFan86 · Apr 25, 2014

Haha, I go to A's games a couple times a month. Some of their fans tend to be pretty ghetto lol A's need to get out of Oakland.

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