Hank Is Not Going To Like This Report
The Boston Globe points to an interesting study done by a firm called “Compete Inc.” (which is a Boston firm that tracks and analyzes Web traffic). According to the folks at Compete:
So what does this all mean to our original question of which “nation” is bigger? It looks to me that the “nations” are approximately the same size, with potentially a slight edge to the Yankees in a world where both teams are performing equally on the field. However, given that the Red Sox have won two World Series rings in the past four years and the Yankees have not won a championship since 2000, we are in the golden age of Red Sox baseball. Thus, at least during the post-season, Red Sox nation is BIGGER than Yankee nation.
It’s a bandwagon bump, if you ask me.
Sadly, bandwagon-ness goes both ways. Otherwise there would be no need to manufacture those alternate color Yankee hats.
If Hank doesn’t like these findings, it would be yet another indication that he isn’t particularly bright. It merely suggests, if accurate, that in order to reach parity with the Yankees, the Sox need to operate at maximum capacity, while the Yankees can reach the same level even after sucking in the postseason since the historic 2004 ALCS collapse.
That’s actually pretty good news for the Yankees.
You can pretty much stop reading once you get to “Boston firm.”