The most amazing fact in the survey below, which reveals that most baseball fans expect another all-New York World Series this October, is that 76% of Red Sox fans surveyed claimed they would root for the Mets. What are the other 24% cheering for? A tie?
American baseball fans won't be surprised if there is a subway series between the New York Yankees and New York Mets this year. Most think the Yankees would win, but most would also be rooting for the Mets.
A Rasmussen Reports survey of 398 baseball fans revealed that 19% think a subway series is very likely, while another 33% say it is somewhat likely. Only 12% a fall classic between the two rivals is not at all likely.
Mets fans are very confident that there will be a rematch of the 2000 World Series as 91% think it is likely that the World Series will be played exclusively in New York this year. Only sixty-five percent (65%) of Yankee fans think it is likely that there will be match-up with the Mets. Since 89% of Yankee fans think the Yankees will win the World Series this year, we have to assume this exhibits their lack of confidence in the Mets chances and not their own team's.
Yankee fans continue to show great confidence as 98% believe they will win a match-up with the Mets. Eighty-five percent of Mets fans think they will win.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of fans think that the Yankees will take the series from the Mets and 33% believe the Mets will win. More than 60% of Tigers, White Sox and Cardinals fans think the Yanks will win. Red Sox fans are evenly split between the Yanks and Mets.
Most baseball fans (54%) would root for the Mets in a Subway Series while 35% would cheer on the Bronx Bombers.
Not surprisingly, Red Sox fans will overwhelmingly be rooting for the Mets. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Red Sox fans want the Mets to win. Fans of the Tigers (70%), Cardinals (69%) and White Sox (57%) would cheer the same way.
The 2000 World Series was the only other time these two teams have met for the Championship. That was the first Subway series since 1956. In that Series, Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history as the Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 1.
The national telephone survey of 1,768 Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports August 21-22 , 2006. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.
