Sox No. 2 Hated Team

With 27 World Series championships, baseball's highest payroll and some of the most boastful fans in sports, the New York Yankees 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, The Wall Street Journal reported The No. 1 most disliked team in baseball, according to the formula, is the Cleveland Indians. The Boston Red Sox, 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" range from 5 to minus-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: Chicago White Sox (No. 7), Baltimore Orioles (No. 8), New York Mets (No. 9) and Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 10). The Cincinnati Reds (No. 3) and Houston Astros (No. 4) also ranked higher than the Yankees on the hatred scale. The Washington Nationals (No. 6) were the only other team to have a number lower than 2.

This hurts. This hurts a lot. In a way it's a win over the Yankees again. You can have your world series titles and fans. Just let us be the most hated team in the country. We must be doing something right, I guess. I'm still trying to figure out how Cleveland got top honor in this. Last I checked that was a city where dreams go to die. We have Ben Affleck and they have Drew Carey. How does that stock up? I have nothing against the Indians mainly because I don't give a shit about them. Maybe in 1999 when ManRam, Roberto Alomar, Thome and Vizquel were teeing off against us but not anymore. Can't forget about Bartolo Colon. I couldn't tell you a single player on that team. Travis Hafner? Is he still around? That's all I got. I actually look forward to them coming to town because I know it's an easy 3 wins.