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MLB 2014 season thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Feb 26, 2014.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    There is no ZIP code anywhere, including the one that houses their stadium, where the A's are the predominant team over the Giants. The closest it gets is 48-36, but nearly all of the splits are in the 50s, and in the suburbs where the money is, it goes Giants upwards of 60 percent.
     
  2. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Same thing with Mets-Yankees according to the link.

    I have a buddy from New York who grew up a Mets fan and I once asked him about that dynamic and he said "yeah, the only people who are Mets fans are Jewish guys from Long Island." (he being a Jewish guy from Long Island, by the way)
     
  3. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Not sure if Facebook is a great metric (would definitely skew against the 60-plus demographic), but it's a fascinating map all the same.
     
  4. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Did I see a New York Mets spot in northwestern Idaho?

    Nah. Dust speck on the IPad.
     
  5. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    I'm not surprised about the Yankees-Mets dynamic, but I am a bit surprised that even Alameda County is so solidly Giants. I also was surprised that the White Sox outpolled the Cubs in some of the Chicago-area counties.
     
  6. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

     
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  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    There is a bit of truth to that. It started out as many of the former Brooklyn Dodger
    fans who became Met fans. At same time the flight from Brooklyn to the suburbs of
    Long Island was going on.
     
  8. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    A few years ago, my son lived in Brooklyn for a year, in a neighborhood near Prospect Park called Windsor Terrace that still had a considerable old-time Irish and Italian population as well as twentysomethings like him. There were many Mets fans in the neighborhood for whatever reason.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    One of my friends posted a link to a list of "18 Things Only People From Westchester Understand" on Facebook yesterday.

    I'm too old for some of them to be relevant, but this one seems appropriate to the conversation:

    6. You have a lot of Jewish friends.

    And you love them to death, even though most of them are Mets and Jets fans.
     
  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Ah, yes, the Mets-Jets fandom combo.
     
  11. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    What about the Mets-Jets-Islanders trifecta?
     
  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    I guess the Knicks were a given?
     
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