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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 Nielsen Company, there are four teams more detested than the Bronx Bombers, The Wall Street Journal reported. 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. Nielsen'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. Some of the others making 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). 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 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. The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics were the most popular teams among fans, according to Nielsen's study. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5146663
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The computer-generated rankings, Lewis said, were intended to determine "the correlation between positive and negative feelings generated by each team based on their starts to this season." They weren't an indication of which team is "most-loved or most-hated."
The computer-generated program searched for positive and negative keywords in message boards and blogs to determine sentiment about baseball teams. According to Nielsen's website, "Positive scores indicate positive-leaning discussion and negative results indicate negative-leaning discussion."
With the rankings index ranging from minus-5 to 5 six clubs scored below a 2, including the Yankees. The Indians were at 0.9, Red Sox 1.1, Reds 1.5 and Astros and Yankees 1.8.
The original post didn't mention the Indians "rating" at all, so I went to the site referenced and added a few snippets. BTW, the article states this isn't supposed to mean "loved or hated". And, the material used to come to these conclusions are a crock of doo!
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Way to stuff the ballot box guys! 
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no need to drag slider through the mud  tonight i argued clevelanders love the tribe more than the browns
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j/c HaHa this is hilarious. Not because the Indians are the most hated team in baseball, because they are surely not. If they based that report on message forums, it makes me laugh. Because I have thought for a really long time that Cleveland fans are the most overly critical fans of their sports teams of ANY fans of ANY teams I have ever met. And that report just proves it. I think being overly critical goes hand in hand with being overly passionate, so I'm not really bashing cleveland fans. It just goes with the territory of being the most passionate out there....
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Saw an article on MSN/Fox sports today... saying that The Indians are the most hated team in MLB. http//www.msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Are-the -Yankees-baseball's-most-hated-team-042810?GTI=39002
The story is about a nationwide poll. It says that the Indians are the most hated, followed by the Red Sox and the Reds, the the Astros and Yankees tied for 4th.
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Why would anybody hate the Reds, Indians or Astros? It's not like we're the Yankees or the Red Sox. 
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Dolans....Darn cheep skates....cant even bribe a few polesters 
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Only when they play infront of their fans. . . . Nah. Love dat Tribe! 
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The reason they're the most hated team in baseball is because their own fans hate them, more specifically the cheapskate Dolans.
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I know I hate them.
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You Red Leg's lover you! At least that's what they called them "back in the day"....
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I don't know about the rest of MLB fandom, but after watching them today, I'm starting to hate them ... they're playing like a bunch of semi-pro's, minus the hustle.
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the key words were the use of strong/negative language
# of opposing fans that hate Tribe + # of Tribe fans that complain about team/Dolans = #1 rating
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