{"id":512,"date":"2006-08-18T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/18\/sports-fault-lines\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T12:51:47","slug":"sports-fault-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/18\/sports-fault-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Fault Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <cite>Times<\/cite> takes up the critical question of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/18\/sports\/baseball\/18fans.html?ex=1313553600&#038;en=6f3f751649bd2179&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">locating the boundary between Red Sox and Yankees fans<\/a> in New York and Connecticut. They do a comprehensive survey of the boundary line in CT, but only a fairly cursory sweep north.<\/p>\n<p>Albany is on the Yankees side of the line, but it&#8217;s a near thing. Union&#8217;s student body is drawn heavily from New England, and runs probably 50\/50, maybe leaning a bit toward the Sox (since some of the NY students are actually Mets fans).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for Kate, the situation is less positive for expat Bostonians in football&#8211; between the Giants (whose training camp is held in Albany), the Jets, and the Bills, she hardly ever gets a chance to see the Patriots&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m tempted to put this in the &#8220;Culture Wars&#8221; channel on the front page&#8211; the <strong>real<\/strong> red\/blue split is the one between Boston and New York, after all&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times takes up the critical question of locating the boundary between Red Sox and Yankees fans in New York and Connecticut. They do a comprehensive survey of the boundary line in CT, but only a fairly cursory sweep north. Albany is on the Yankees side of the line, but it&#8217;s a near thing. Union&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/18\/sports-fault-lines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports Fault Lines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}