New York Times Baseball Map

[Edgy MD]

Find out the alleged fan allegiances by zip code:

Zips I've Lived In	Fan Breakdown
11570	Yankees 60% =#0000FF]Mets 23% =#FF0000]Red Sox 5%
10471	Yankees 70% =#0000FF]Mets 9% =#FF0000]Red Sox 4%
11101	Yankees 53% =#0000FF]Mets 21% =#FF0000]Red Sox 7%
11694	Yankees 54% =#0000FF]Mets 22% =#FF0000]Red Sox 5%
20010	=#FF0040]Nationals 31% Yankees 16% =#FF0000]Red Sox 11%
20011	=#FF0040]Nationals 30 % Yankees 18% =#FF8000]Orioles 13%
21214	=#FF8000]Orioles 67% =#FF0000]Red Sox 7% Yankees 6%

It's a shame the map only lists three teams for each zone --- and in every region east of the Mississippi, I imagine that'll be the Yankees, the Sox, and the next closest team. But outliers are where the fun is.

Anyhow, it's a good time to hold onto your stock.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I get:
MFY 46%
NYM 14%
BOS 13%

That's not accurate.

[Ceetar]

as before, Facebook likes is a stupid way to do this. 15% of Turner Field's zip is Yankees fans. yeah. sure it is.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Can someone provide a link?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/24/upshot/facebook-baseball-map.html

[Benjamin Grimm]

By drifting my mouse pointer over the Long Island part of the map, it seems that 11554, East Meadow NY, is the most Metly zip code, at 30 per cent. The zip code I grew up in, 11788 (Hauppauge) is 58 per cent Evil Empire, 25 per cent Mets, 6 per cent Red Sox. Things have changed; when I was a kid just about everyone was a Mets fan. The few Yankee fans in the neighborhood were anomalies. We had Tom Seaver, they had Mel Stottlemyre.

[Guest d'Kong76]

10566=
MFY 71%
NYM 10%
BOS 06%

Unfortunately, sounds about right.

[TransMonk]

This doesn't seems accurate. Looking at zips in my area of Wisconsin, the Brewers are listed first at about 66=ish%, then the Cubs and then the Red Sox. The Red Sox? Twins or White Sox maybe...I'd even believe the Cardinals, but I don't know any Red Sox fans.

Looking at other areas of the country, it seems the Red Sox are over-represented.

[metsmarathon]

07871
mfy 67%
mets 16%
sawx 6%

be cool if you could limit the map to team-by-team searches.

what's the darkest metly zip code. that sort of thing.

[Ceetar]

If you're an out of state fan, you're more likely to pay attention if your team is good.

Also, if you're a baseball fan in general you might want to keep highlights on your facebook feed of the playoff teams, so you might 'like' the Red Sox for the sake of seeing what's going on.

[Guest themetfairy]

In the vortex I'm horribly outnumbered -

MFYs - 42%
Phucking Phillies - 25%
Mets - 13%

[metsmarathon]

also, a facebook "like" is forever, or at least until you "un-like" (or should it be "de-like"?) that thing. it's not so much a map of current baseball "likes", but, to a somewhat greater extent, represents a cumulative historical map of baseball "likes", covering, like, the past 5-8 years i guess.

[TransMonk]

I missed the Facebook connection. Makes much more sense.

[metsmarathon]

also, and importantly, it is quite clear from my interactions with and observations of mets fans, that a great number of them, possibly even a majority of them, do not actually like their team.

[Edgy MD]

TransMonk wrote: I missed the Facebook connection. Makes much more sense.

Especially underscores the Red Sox transcendence, as they are the most successful team during the FB era.

If you are an otherwise baseball-indifferent young adult that went to college during the aughts, "like"-ing the Sox means fondly recalling those celebratory nights at the Farthingminster Canteen and SWEEET CAROLINE DUH! DUH! DUH! OMIGODILUVYOUGUYS!! perhaps more than it means a deep-seated devotion to all things Rico Petrocelli.

[G-Fafif]

The Red Sox "outlike" the Mets in the Polo Grounds Zip Code, for crissake (10-7; MFYs 60). And it's 61-14-4 (MFY-Mets-Sox) where Ebbets Field stood.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: By drifting my mouse pointer over the Long Island part of the map, it seems that 11554, East Meadow NY, is the most Metly zip code, at 30 per cent. The zip code I grew up in, 11788 (Hauppauge) is 58 per cent Evil Empire, 25 per cent Mets, 6 per cent Red Sox. Things have changed; when I was a kid just about everyone was a Mets fan. The few Yankee fans in the neighborhood were anomalies. We had Tom Seaver, they had Mel Stottlemyre.

Bellmore gets it up to 33% Mets, which is as high as I've been able to find. As far as geographic outliers, I found a few Zips in Delaware and Vermont where the Mets come in third (with like 3%). A little Pa. action as well in that regard. But w/o having gone through the whole USA, it doesn't seem as if there's a hidden hotbed of Mets fans outside the tri-state by this metric. Checked Fresno, Virginia Beach, Las Vegas, St. Lucie -- anywhere where you'd think there might be some idiosyncratic reason to remain beholden to the Mets. Nada.

I live in 58-25 territory. Sadly, I could've guessed that.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

My life in embattled fandom.

10023: 17% Metly (59% MFY)
07076: 10% (64% MFY)
19104: 3% (72% Phils)
10019: 17% (58% MFY)
10472: 11% (69% MFY)

The good news: I'm fairly certain my neighborhood is-- weirdly for the Bronx-- significantly more Metly than this indicates.
The bad news: If I had to guess the likely reason Metliness is underrepresented on this, based solely on my personal experience? Well, most of the Met fans in my area appear to be aged (and I mean Casey-if-he-were-alive-today aged).

[ashie62]

metsmarathon wrote: 07871 mfy 67% mets 16% sawx 6% be cool if you could limit the map to team-by-team searches. what's the darkest metly zip code. that sort of thing.

Same here in 07054

[Benjamin Grimm]

I did see the Mets coming in third in a couple of zip codes along Florida's East Coast.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I did see the Mets coming in third in a couple of zip codes along Florida's East Coast.

Palm Bay, Fla., you are a tertiary bastion of good taste! (Not all that close to PSL, but we'll take fellow travelers where we can get them.)

[Edgy MD]

I find four counties going for the White Sox over the Cubs, but zero going for the Athletics over the Giants.

Angels do a surprisingly strong job holding the sparser but richer counties south and west of LA.

[Gwreck]

I saw 5 White Sox-dominant counties: Will, Kankakee, Lake (IN), Porter (IN) and Newton (IN)>

Of course, Cook County also has a 40 Cubs/38 White Sox split.

[Edgy MD]

I re-checked and found two more outposts in Ventura Nation.

Will
White Sox 47
Cubs 37
Yankees 3

Lake
White Sox 43
Cubs 39
Yankees 3

Porter
White Sox 41
Cubs 40
Yankees 4

Newton
White Sox 41
Cubs 39
Yankees 4

Kanakee
White Sox 45
Cubs 37
Yankees 3

Will
White Sox 47
Cubs 37
Yankees 3

[TransMonk]

I'm surprised by the Yankee wasteland that is most of Virginia and North Carolina. Seems like a great breeding ground for Nats fans.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If any teams relocate in the near future (Tampa Bay? Oakland?) I think that Charlotte, North Carolina may be one of the best available destinations. (Tennessee is another.)

[G-Fafif]

We're No. 1 at being No. 2 in a whole bunch of places, according to the Times's second-place map.

Congratulations to us?

[bmfc1]

Outnumbered:
Currently, 20905
O's 28, Nationals 27, MFY 13

Where my son when to college, 02138
Red Sox 71, MFY 7, MFP 3

Where my son goes to college, 23186
MFY 24, Red Sox 15, ATL 9

Where I grew up, 11021 (a short LIRR ride from Citi Field)
MFY 56, METS 25, Red Sox 4.