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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Thursday, February 26, 2009Survey SaysPolls and baseball, together at last! Quick! Someone light the Nate Silver signal!Sixty percent of baseball fans are bothered by steroid use by players, and 44 percent say Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez should not be allowed in the Hall of Fame, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll . . . I suppose this is interesting in the abstract, but given that citizens don't have a direct role in validating or punishing a baseball player's performance like they do with politicians through the vote, I wonder if polls like these don't lend themselves to a greater cynicism and fatalism than do political polls. And if we are going to run polls like these, let's at least get more of them. I mean, I hate the exercise, but this poll would be far more useful if we could compare it to a poll of, say, Pete Rose's popularity circa 1989 or Roberto Alomar's in 1996. Regardless, someone should probably tell the doomsayer columnists that, for all of the "A-Roid" outrage they are mustering, 56% of people either think A-Rod should be in the Hall of Fame or don't have that strong an opinion about it, and 59% either had a favorable opinion or no opinion about the guy. Maybe that's not stellar -- and a 44% Hall-opposition rate would keep him out if writers felt the same way -- but it's certainly better than you'd expect given the coverage over the past couple of weeks. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 12:15pm Comments
lar said...
Going along with what Pete said, you really have to wonder who these people were that they surveyed. Maybe it’s too anecdotal or whatever, but it seems weird to me to say that you could walk up to 9 random baseball fans at a stadium and have 4 of them say that they don’t think A-Rod should go into the Hall. Or, that you could go to a stadium on Opening Day this year and find that 20,000 of the 45,000 people there don’t think A-Rod should go in. That sounds awfully high to me. but, then again, maybe I’m overestimating the casual/average fan… Posted 02/26 at 02:14 PM
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Less than 40% of respondents “were very or somewhat interested in baseball”, so…not sure what to make of this…my team played the Yanks yesterday - in Dunedin - and according to the report I read the reaction to A Rod was pretty much business as usual…fans didn’t like him prior to this either.