Although viewership was high for this year’s Yankees/Phillies World Series, a startling Nielsen poll revealed that most people tuned in to root against the Yankees.
Poll Director Chris Johnson said that 95% of the people polled by his office said they were only watching the Series in order to “watch those fucking New York cheaters lose in their precious, billion-dollar shitbox.” The only respondents to say they supported the Yankees were paid members of the Steinbrenner family.
Many longtime baseball fans who have avoided past Series telecasts were drawn to this one simply because they despise the Yankees. Bill Hutchison of Chicago is one such fan. His favorite team, the Cubs, haven’t won a Series in over 100 years, and he therefore rarely watches the October classic. But he tuned in this year to root against Steinbrenner’s Yankees. “Fuck the Yankees,” said Hutchison bluntly. “They spend half a billion dollars a year more than everybody else, and I want them to lose, goddammit.”
Several fans threw Series parties in order to show their disgust for the Yankees presence. At one bar, patrons would jeer derisively and scream “A-Roid” and “Faggot!” every time Alex Rodriguez would come to the plate. And when star closer Mariano Rivera would come out of the bullpen, the patrons would yell “Skeletor!”
According to Johnson, this sentiment was widespread in most of the people he interviewed. “It’s shocking how much people hate this team, even though they are a pretty talented bunch of players.”
The poll has a +/- 5% degree of accuracy. In order to get a concentrated sampling area, Johnson limited his polling to the city and surrounding counties of Boston.
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