I feel like most games, out of thousands in attendance, have residents from 7+ states in them, regardless of team (except for like.. the Marlins, who have like 7 fans total).
In terms of popularity across states though, the Braves are definitely near the top.
That being said, I’m from Memphis (where the Cards have their AAA team). Of the people there who actually care about baseball, the Braves still have lots of support.
The only 2 teams I’d legitimately grow the base on the map are the Braves and the Phillies. My guess is the Dodgers base also needs to be larger.
Braves country needs to go further into Florida. The Marlins and Rays are both pretty new teams, and everyone in Florida was a Braves fan before those teams came around. A lot of us, those who don’t wear jorts or use hair gel, still are Braves fans.
The Braves map definitely needs to go further into Florida. I’m from the Florida gulf coast and just about everyone there is a Braves fan. Like the person before me stated, before the Marlins came around most of the people in Florida were Braves fans.
Not only North Carolina, I have to imagine that most of Louisiana is Braves country too. As far as I can tell Tennessee is split between the Cardinals, Braves, and MAYBE the Reds, just a bit.
Either way, Braves dominate. I get a little hard thinking of our future pitching staffs.
in louisiana the Braves > Astros…nobody here follows the astros because they arent worth following. im from atlanta originally, die hard braves fan, so the braves are a regular conversation piece for me.
i’m not sure what that little nitch in south georgia is, but nobody in georgia is a marlins fan. north florida are braves fans too. i think they may have just been trying to give some teams some credit.
Poor, not at all. Actually the sox probably have one of the most affluent fan bases in the country. By far the most expensive tickets in the country. While the yankees have the highest average price for tickets, because of some really expensive tickets in the infield, the sox have the most expensive average price for normal seats.
Being from Connecticut I’m gonna argue you can not say the state is a Red Sox state. It’s half-half Yankees and Redsox – one of the places the rivalry is most prominent.
But overall I’d say yea the map isn’t bad and is pretty cool overall. I just think the guy that made this doesn’t understand the AL East.
Personally I wished ESPN would put more braves and giants and others on, but New England and the Tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT) provide by far the biggest ratings bump to ESPN. Look at the numbers when a sox or yankees game is on, compared to any other teams in the country, and its a huge boost.
^false. While I strongly dislike espn, they hire from across the nation, not just from within their region. They probably have more missouri grads than anything else.
I understand ratings but no one that works for ESPN can justify how they gave Derek Jeter 24/7 coverage of his chase to 3,000 hits (even showing every plate appearance in the minors) but hardly showed any to Jim Thome achieving a far greater accomplishment of 600 hrs. There have been many more times this has happened but this was the best example of bias this season.
At least the 3rd and 4th most supported teams in almost every major city are the Yankees and Red Sox. Just because they aren’t the favorite team in those cities doesn’t mean they aren’t far and away the 2 teams with the most national support (Cubs coming in at 3rd).
My rankings for nationwide support:
1. Yankees
2. Red Sox
3. Cubs
4. Dodgers
5. Braves
If you called New Era, they’d tell you the same thing. There’s a reason those 5 teams have more apparel available in every city than any other out-of-market team.
I think you underrate the Cardinals. They have the entire state of Missouri that isn’t the immediate KC area, half of Arkansas, half of Illinois, half of Iowa, and decent portions of Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Along with all that they have a shit ton of older fans. It used to be that STL was the western most team and KMOX could be heard over like 3/4’s of the country at night. Granted those fans are now older, but they still exist.
I just moved to Tampa, and, as you can imagine, there are a lot of old yankees here. That, combined with Yankees spring training here, makes for a lot of Yankees fans, probably even more than Rays fans. And Andrew Jackson… great man. He was the only president ever to fully pay back the national debt, once beat a man with a cane whose pistol misfired twice during an assassination attempt, and didn’t take shit from anyone. That’s for another time, though.
BROld Spice and gATOrage are both right. i’m from tampa and the red sox and yankees fans greatly outnumber rays fans. it’s cuz the yankees would have spring training in town before the rays were founded, so the yankees were the closet thing there was to a home team. and because a lot of people hate the yankees, and there was no tampa team, the most logical choice for people who didn’t want to be yankees fans was to cheer for boston. even when the devil rays were founded, people still were boston and new york fans because of the home team’s poor efforts. but after all that, i’m still a rays fan till death
Only Miami guido’s say Soflo. The Marlin’s fans mainly have to make a good drive to get there because the immigrants in Miami can’t afford tickets. Anyone from places like Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, and south of Miami would never refer to where we live as Soflo, we refer to it as the respective county. Also we hate the idea of the Marlin’s becoming the Miami Marlin’s….
Also from living in and knowing people from all over Florida at my school I’d say that’s a pretty accurate depiction of Marlin territory. Though the panhandle is probably more Braves territory. Jacksonville is not us though cause most people that live there are from Georgia I think. Tampa belongs to whoever, doesn’t matter to me. Most Floridians are die hard Marlin’s fans regardless of if they doing well and we believe they should remain the Florida team and not the Miami team. I’m stocking up on Florida Marlin merchandise because once they change the name to Miami Marlin’s I don’t want any of that shit, they will just be the Marlin’s to me at that point. It’ll probably lose some more fans too…
That part of the map is accurate. If you looked at the population numbers for those maps, you would realize that SF’s base is actually a lot bigger then Oaklands. The Oakland part of the map is a lot of farm land that is not densely populated.
Ok, fair enough, thats probably true. I just know Pac Bell (or w.e the hell they renamed it) is always packed and the Oakland Raiders stadium is always empty for As games
I’ve been out there a few times in the past couple years and been to games at both. The reason SF is always packed is because the stadium is awesome, and oakland is a dump. Even if the A’s were amazing, there stadium is terrible, which is why they might move actually, because nobody wants to go.
Rangers nation
14 years ago at 4:45 pmfuck yeah
14 years ago at 7:22 pmdamn right
14 years ago at 7:36 pmClaw and antlers
14 years ago at 8:50 pmwe should secede. claws & antlers
14 years ago at 12:17 am^Being unamerican. NF.
14 years ago at 6:05 am^ you wouldn’t understand kpf103
14 years ago at 8:04 amAmerica’s birthplace.
14 years ago at 11:04 am^ you realize Texas used to be Mexico, right?
14 years ago at 1:42 pmAnd Spain, France, The confederate states and most importantly the Republic of Texas. Dont start this argument with Texans, you will not win.
14 years ago at 1:48 pm^fucking this.
14 years ago at 2:38 pmAnd perfectly willing to be the Republic again if need be.
14 years ago at 3:34 pmOnly question is who to be president….Perry or Bush
14 years ago at 7:48 pm“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas!”
14 years ago at 12:10 am“There is a land of opportunity in America, and it’s called Texas.”
14 years ago at 1:57 amThe Atlanta Braves out frat the nation…
14 years ago at 5:05 pmBraves Country
14 years ago at 5:06 pmMy original caption included “Braves country needs to be bigger”. Just letting my position known
14 years ago at 5:56 pmNothin like Turner field being packed with residents from 7+ states every game.
14 years ago at 6:01 pmI feel like most games, out of thousands in attendance, have residents from 7+ states in them, regardless of team (except for like.. the Marlins, who have like 7 fans total).
In terms of popularity across states though, the Braves are definitely near the top.
14 years ago at 6:39 pmill go ahead & state that all of NC is Braves territory, fuck the nationals
14 years ago at 7:22 pmI was just thinking that. I’m a Rays fan myself, but Carolina is definitely Braves. I’ve never met a Nationals fan.
14 years ago at 7:27 pmBraves = Georgia = Jimmy Carter. NF.
14 years ago at 8:49 pmRangers = W
^Braves = Bobby Cox
Bobby Cox = FaF
You are obviously a fucking retard. Take a lap.
14 years ago at 9:41 pmWho the fuck are you to call Georgia NF?
14 years ago at 9:44 pmHating on the south is NF.
Just got back from the Braves game. Fuck those hipster ass San Francisco bandwagon geeds. Go back to the weirdest city in America.
14 years ago at 11:42 pmThe Braves owning SEC territory. FaF.
14 years ago at 1:10 amChief Knockahoma took TFTC to a whole new level. And me, of course.
14 years ago at 7:25 amBraves dominating SEC country. FAF
14 years ago at 9:19 amI hate the Braves.
That being said, I’m from Memphis (where the Cards have their AAA team). Of the people there who actually care about baseball, the Braves still have lots of support.
The only 2 teams I’d legitimately grow the base on the map are the Braves and the Phillies. My guess is the Dodgers base also needs to be larger.
14 years ago at 9:50 amBraves country needs to go further into Florida. The Marlins and Rays are both pretty new teams, and everyone in Florida was a Braves fan before those teams came around. A lot of us, those who don’t wear jorts or use hair gel, still are Braves fans.
14 years ago at 11:59 amExcept the Tampa area. The Braves facility makes them have a strong base there (even with the Rays existence)
14 years ago at 12:06 pmLarry “Chipper” Jones is FaF. John Rocker was TFTC. Need I say more? Go Braves.
14 years ago at 12:09 pmThe Braves map definitely needs to go further into Florida. I’m from the Florida gulf coast and just about everyone there is a Braves fan. Like the person before me stated, before the Marlins came around most of the people in Florida were Braves fans.
14 years ago at 12:48 pmNot only North Carolina, I have to imagine that most of Louisiana is Braves country too. As far as I can tell Tennessee is split between the Cardinals, Braves, and MAYBE the Reds, just a bit.
Either way, Braves dominate. I get a little hard thinking of our future pitching staffs.
14 years ago at 1:16 pmin louisiana the Braves > Astros…nobody here follows the astros because they arent worth following. im from atlanta originally, die hard braves fan, so the braves are a regular conversation piece for me.
14 years ago at 2:14 pmBandwagons. TFTC.
14 years ago at 3:30 pmAll of central Virginia is braves country. The nationals suck
14 years ago at 5:49 pmi’m not sure what that little nitch in south georgia is, but nobody in georgia is a marlins fan. north florida are braves fans too. i think they may have just been trying to give some teams some credit.
14 years ago at 6:12 pmThe Braves. I live for this.
14 years ago at 5:29 pmBorn and raised Boston fan. I was named after a BoSox Hall of Famer. Sorry I’m not sorry.
14 years ago at 5:27 pm^ this guy
14 years ago at 5:28 pmY’all are…………gay
14 years ago at 6:22 pmDo you want us to feel bad? Sucks to Suck?
14 years ago at 6:30 pmRed Sox fan? Must suck to be poor.
14 years ago at 7:24 pmgoing to a Red Sox game is like going to an Irish soccer match. Irish men and a shit load of beer.
14 years ago at 7:27 pmIts funny because Red Sox fans are better than your team’s fans.
14 years ago at 8:02 pmPoor, not at all. Actually the sox probably have one of the most affluent fan bases in the country. By far the most expensive tickets in the country. While the yankees have the highest average price for tickets, because of some really expensive tickets in the infield, the sox have the most expensive average price for normal seats.
14 years ago at 9:23 pmNew England is one of the most affluent regions of the country. The Nation lives.
14 years ago at 10:29 pmWe rich as fuck! Yankees still suck!
Nation! Nation! Nation!
(It’ll catch on)
14 years ago at 1:27 amYou’ve never lived if you’ve never been to a Boston sports game. Shit gets rowdy.
14 years ago at 1:28 amYou’ve never lived till you’ve gone to the Iron bowl. I think Brig killed a guy.
14 years ago at 7:27 amAnd Fenway is the most beautiful field in the country. Wrigley and Camden are close but no other stadium is as nice.
14 years ago at 8:35 am^War Damn Eagle. The intensity from both sides is like no other rivalry and if you disagree you obviously are retarded.
14 years ago at 8:39 am^Roll Fucking Tide. But however you are right. Most incredible rivalry in sports
14 years ago at 9:16 amHello Wade
14 years ago at 10:45 amI’m from Boston and love the Sox, but FratCandy…sorry i’m not sorry?….what kind of sorority tween talking chick do you think you are?
14 years ago at 12:32 pmThe map is pretty accurate. While some borders may be disputed, the general lines are pretty good.
14 years ago at 5:30 pmBeing from Connecticut I’m gonna argue you can not say the state is a Red Sox state. It’s half-half Yankees and Redsox – one of the places the rivalry is most prominent.
But overall I’d say yea the map isn’t bad and is pretty cool overall. I just think the guy that made this doesn’t understand the AL East.
14 years ago at 7:46 pm^This. The day after the ’04 ALCS there were brawls in my school.
14 years ago at 10:39 pmYeah, mostly because Bridgeport/Stamford/Fairfield county is populated with New York commuters.
14 years ago at 8:37 amI wish ESPN would look at this map and see that the entire nation does not care about Red Sox/Yankees.
14 years ago at 5:33 pmPersonally I wished ESPN would put more braves and giants and others on, but New England and the Tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT) provide by far the biggest ratings bump to ESPN. Look at the numbers when a sox or yankees game is on, compared to any other teams in the country, and its a huge boost.
14 years ago at 6:37 pmShow more of Brian Wilson. TFTC
14 years ago at 6:40 pmPlus ESPN is Located in northern Connecticut in the middle of the New York/Boston rivalry making most of the employees fans of these two teams.
14 years ago at 7:26 pm^false. While I strongly dislike espn, they hire from across the nation, not just from within their region. They probably have more missouri grads than anything else.
14 years ago at 7:46 pmI understand ratings but no one that works for ESPN can justify how they gave Derek Jeter 24/7 coverage of his chase to 3,000 hits (even showing every plate appearance in the minors) but hardly showed any to Jim Thome achieving a far greater accomplishment of 600 hrs. There have been many more times this has happened but this was the best example of bias this season.
14 years ago at 10:41 pmAt least the 3rd and 4th most supported teams in almost every major city are the Yankees and Red Sox. Just because they aren’t the favorite team in those cities doesn’t mean they aren’t far and away the 2 teams with the most national support (Cubs coming in at 3rd).
My rankings for nationwide support:
1. Yankees
2. Red Sox
3. Cubs
4. Dodgers
5. Braves
If you called New Era, they’d tell you the same thing. There’s a reason those 5 teams have more apparel available in every city than any other out-of-market team.
14 years ago at 10:01 amI think you underrate the Cardinals. They have the entire state of Missouri that isn’t the immediate KC area, half of Arkansas, half of Illinois, half of Iowa, and decent portions of Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Along with all that they have a shit ton of older fans. It used to be that STL was the western most team and KMOX could be heard over like 3/4’s of the country at night. Granted those fans are now older, but they still exist.
14 years ago at 1:20 pmBrold spice, move the Braves up to 3.
14 years ago at 12:28 pmhttp://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-braves/poll-braves-are-third-569503.html
Florida needs some Yankees reputation for all the old geezers who move down there.
14 years ago at 5:36 pmWhile I’m a fan of Jackson taking Florida from Spain, which is FaF, I also believe they can have it back.
14 years ago at 6:57 pm^Giving up U.S. territory. NF
14 years ago at 8:10 pmyou can leave then, i dont want you here
14 years ago at 9:19 amI think it has more to do with the Yankees Spring training facility in Tampa
14 years ago at 12:13 pmI just moved to Tampa, and, as you can imagine, there are a lot of old yankees here. That, combined with Yankees spring training here, makes for a lot of Yankees fans, probably even more than Rays fans. And Andrew Jackson… great man. He was the only president ever to fully pay back the national debt, once beat a man with a cane whose pistol misfired twice during an assassination attempt, and didn’t take shit from anyone. That’s for another time, though.
14 years ago at 5:35 pmBROld Spice and gATOrage are both right. i’m from tampa and the red sox and yankees fans greatly outnumber rays fans. it’s cuz the yankees would have spring training in town before the rays were founded, so the yankees were the closet thing there was to a home team. and because a lot of people hate the yankees, and there was no tampa team, the most logical choice for people who didn’t want to be yankees fans was to cheer for boston. even when the devil rays were founded, people still were boston and new york fans because of the home team’s poor efforts. but after all that, i’m still a rays fan till death
14 years ago at 11:47 amI would say most all of North FL supports the Braves, and only Soflo geeds like the Marlins.
14 years ago at 5:37 pmCompletely accurate.
14 years ago at 6:00 pmIs SoFlo a term?
14 years ago at 8:04 pmI believe SoFlo is a laxative marketed mainly by infomercials in the early hours of the morning
14 years ago at 1:08 amI believe SoFlo is an old, old wooden ship used in the civil war era…
14 years ago at 1:29 amI believe it is short for “A Whale’s Vagina”
14 years ago at 3:33 pmOnly Miami guido’s say Soflo. The Marlin’s fans mainly have to make a good drive to get there because the immigrants in Miami can’t afford tickets. Anyone from places like Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, and south of Miami would never refer to where we live as Soflo, we refer to it as the respective county. Also we hate the idea of the Marlin’s becoming the Miami Marlin’s….
14 years ago at 11:54 amAlso from living in and knowing people from all over Florida at my school I’d say that’s a pretty accurate depiction of Marlin territory. Though the panhandle is probably more Braves territory. Jacksonville is not us though cause most people that live there are from Georgia I think. Tampa belongs to whoever, doesn’t matter to me. Most Floridians are die hard Marlin’s fans regardless of if they doing well and we believe they should remain the Florida team and not the Miami team. I’m stocking up on Florida Marlin merchandise because once they change the name to Miami Marlin’s I don’t want any of that shit, they will just be the Marlin’s to me at that point. It’ll probably lose some more fans too…
14 years ago at 12:03 pmNolan and W. All that needs to be said.
14 years ago at 5:52 pmsecond
14 years ago at 8:52 pmI realize this is litterally the most unimportant part of the map, but San Fran and Oakland need to be swtiched, SF has a much bigger fan base
14 years ago at 6:03 pmThat part of the map is accurate. If you looked at the population numbers for those maps, you would realize that SF’s base is actually a lot bigger then Oaklands. The Oakland part of the map is a lot of farm land that is not densely populated.
14 years ago at 6:51 pmOk, fair enough, thats probably true. I just know Pac Bell (or w.e the hell they renamed it) is always packed and the Oakland Raiders stadium is always empty for As games
14 years ago at 9:58 pmI’ve been out there a few times in the past couple years and been to games at both. The reason SF is always packed is because the stadium is awesome, and oakland is a dump. Even if the A’s were amazing, there stadium is terrible, which is why they might move actually, because nobody wants to go.
14 years ago at 12:06 amI would just completely change this map to Rangers/Braves with little spots of yankees, red sox, and phillies for those less fratty areas.
14 years ago at 6:24 pm