From Oren Yaniv (hat-tips to River Ave. Blues and BBTF):
New York City is still a Yankee town, a new poll found Wednesday, less than two weeks before Opening Day.
Among the New Yorkers who expressed interest in big-league baseball, more than half, 56 percent, pledged alliance to the Bronx Bombers, and only a third said they root for the Mets, a Quinnipiac poll found.
In a theoretical Subway Series, the Yanks are fan favorites, 55 percent to 42 percent, holding an edge in every borough but Queens, where the Amazin's play.
"Except for Queens, New York City still is the home of the Bronx Bombers," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Wow, only a third of New Yorkers root for the Mets? That's pretty pathetic. You'd expect them to pull in at least 40 percent of the fans considering there are only two teams here. The Red Sox came in with three percent of the vote. Yes, three percent of New Yorkers are Red Sox fans.
They had some other questions in their poll:
The most popular Yankee is, of course, Derek Jeter, who took home a whopping 48 percent of the vote. A-Rod was second with nine percent. Mariano Rivera finished third with four percent of the vote.
You think he sits home and punches things when he sees polls like this?
As for that other team, David Wright took the prize for most popular with 27 percent of the vote. Jose Reyes followed with 17 percent, and Carlos Beltran finished third with five percent of the vote.
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