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Friday, February 06, 2004 |
Say Ahhh: Counting Blogs to Assess Teams' Fan Interest
Since the Times doesn't have any new coverage of the Dodgers or Angels today, I thought as a fun project it might be interesting to look at the number of blogs each team has out to assess fan interest. The sportsblog.org website has something like a representative sample, but there seems to be the requirement that the blogger actually register with that site first. Here's the count for today:
Unfortunately, the above is incomplete (not to mention misspelled in the case of LA): it missed Arrive In The Third, Leave After Seven, an LA sports blog that covers the Dodgers as part of its beat. There ought to be a better way to determine the number of active blogs out there. It may be time for me to write a crawler to request from Google the answer to searches like "Detroit Tigers blog", harvest these for human review, and determine how many are live.
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Major League Baseball
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American League
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National League
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East
Baltimore Orioles (3)
Boston Red Sox (26) New York Yankees (12) Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2) Toronto Blue Jays (5) |
East
Atlanta Braves (5)
Florida Marlins (2) Montreal Expos (3) New York Mets (14) Philadelphia Phillies (6) |
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Central
Chicago White Sox (4)
Cleveland Indians (5) Detriot Tigers (5) Kansas City Royals (7) Minnesota Twins (2) |
Central
Chicago Cubs (28)
Cincinnati Reds (4) Houston Astros (2) Milwaukee Brewers (7) Pittsburgh Pirates (3) St. Louis Cardinals (7) |
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West
Anaheim Angels (2)
Oakland Athletics (6) Seattle Mariners (18) Texas Rangers (3) |
West
Arizona Diamondbacks (4)
Colorado Rockies (3) Los Angelos Dodgers (6) San Diego Padres (3) San Francisco Giants (7) |
Unfortunately, the above is incomplete (not to mention misspelled in the case of LA): it missed Arrive In The Third, Leave After Seven, an LA sports blog that covers the Dodgers as part of its beat. There ought to be a better way to determine the number of active blogs out there. It may be time for me to write a crawler to request from Google the answer to searches like "Detroit Tigers blog", harvest these for human review, and determine how many are live.
I bring up the Tigers because of an interesting fact: there are actually more active Tigers blogs than Angels blogs. This maybe isn't surprising given the Dodgers' long history of winning championships and the Angels' long history of futility, but leaves and owners change, and it's obvious who's in town for the long haul.
Edit: Duh, fix the links to actually point to the right place.
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