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This came up on an ILE thread but I found the results so interesting I figured I'd post the link here:

Some interesting things I noticed/learned:
-Mets and White Sox are the redheaded stepchildren of their geographic areas
-Cardinals love splits the state of IL!
-Cubs own Indiana despite presence of MI and OH teams
-Angels vs. Dodgers geography* relatively even while Giants dominate A's
-Nationals fandom has taken hold down the southern coast, hemming in the O's
-Reds/Indians split of OH even
-Astros/Rangers split of TX also even
-Nobody roots for the Devil Rays

*I realize geography population density

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

It appears 83 ppl root for the Rays:

http://www.commoncensus.org/teams.php?sport=2

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Cardinals love splits the state of IL!

I knew this from having relatives in Peoria: the baseball coverage is evenly split between Cubbies and Cards. Nobody cares at all about the White Sox south of Joliet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Jesus the Braves just rule everything.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

the main reason for
midwest cubs allegiance: (duh)
WGN

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

-The Toronto Blue Jays exist in a sea of nothingness and their fan support is almost nil.

otm

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

In the pre-cable days, wasn't the Midwest ruled by the Cards because of KMOX radio's strong signal?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Nobody cares at all about the White Sox south of Joliet.

or north of diversey.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

There used to be a White Sox bar near the Damen Brown Line stop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

i heard sox tickets are 50% sold for the season? can that be?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

In the pre-cable days, wasn't the Midwest ruled by the Cards because of KMOX radio's strong signal?

wgn was also a 50,000 watt radio station. you could hear it as far away as memphis.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

chi had two teams to fight over, and the upper midwest was enthralled with wgn's cubbies, but the cards were the only "southern" team before atlanta, so they had a bigger share everywhere else.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

The Crosley family which owned the Reds also owned WLW which was pushing out a bazillion watts back in the early days of radio until the government stepped in and trimmed them down to 50k.

I don't completely buy the map of Indiana, at least historically speaking. There are a lot more Reds fans in that state than that map indicates. I've never heard the Cubs on the radio growing up in Indiana, but there were stations in Indy, Muncie and Fort Wayne that carried the Reds.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

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