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[b][size="5"]Report says Indians most hated team[/size][/b]
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With 27 World Series championships, baseball's highest payroll and some of the most boastful fans in sports, the [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=nyy"][color="#225fb2"]New York Yankees[/color][/url] have to be the team other baseball fans love to hate, right? Wrong.

According to a formula created by The Neilsen Company, there are four teams more detested than the Bronx Bombers, [url="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471204575210384180269378.html"][color="#225fb2"]The Wall Street Journal[/color][/url] reported.

According to a report, Slider and his Cleveland Indians are baseball's Public Enemy No. 1 among fans.

The No. 1 most disliked team in baseball, according to the formula, is the [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=cle"][color="#225fb2"]Cleveland Indians[/color][/url]. The [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=bos"][color="#225fb2"]Boston Red Sox[/color][/url], the Yankees' archrival, rank No. 2 on the list.

The formula helps determine whether consumers have positive, negative or neutral reactions to brands in their online messages. Neilsen's "Sentiment Rankings" ranges from 5 to -5. No team finished with a negative number. But six teams finished with a number lower than 2.

The rest of the not-so top 10: [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=cha"][color="#225fb2"]Chicago White Sox[/color][/url] (No. 7), [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=bal"][color="#225fb2"]Baltimore Orioles[/color][/url] (No. 8), [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=nym"][color="#225fb2"]New York Mets[/color][/url] (No. 9) and [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=lad"][color="#225fb2"]Los Angeles Dodgers[/color][/url] (No. 10).

At least one Indians blogger wasn't surprised by the findings.

"I can believe that though," Deep Left Field Indians blogger Ed Carroll told the newspaper. "The team does a lot to alienate its fans."

The [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=cin"][color="#225fb2"]Cincinnati Reds[/color][/url] (No. 3) and [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=hou"][color="#225fb2"]Houston Astros[/color][/url] (No. 4) also ranked higher than the Yankees on the hatred scale. The [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=was"][color="#225fb2"]Washington Nationals[/color][/url] (No. 6) were the only other team to have a number lower than 2.

The [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=sfo"][color="#225fb2"]San Francisco Giants[/color][/url] and [url="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=oak"][color="#225fb2"]Oakland Athletics[/color][/url] were the most popular teams among fans, according to [url="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/giants-as-tops-among-baseballs-sentimental-favorites/"][color="#225fb2"]Neilsen's study[/color][/url].




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[quote name='The Scales' date='29 April 2010 - 07:36 AM' timestamp='1272551760' post='884834']
YOWCH.


I wonder why the venom?
:mellow:
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No kidding.

That makes no sense to me. Plus how can anyone hate the Reds when they haven't had a winning season in nearly 10 years; losing all the time doesn't exactly put you in the spotlight around the country...

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