UPDATE: this topic tickled my fancy, so I did a post running down what I think is the alpha-sport in each major league city.
I have not heard the interview yet ? and can?t find it ? but apparently Josh Hamilton has upset a lot of Rangers fans by saying Dallas is not a baseball town. Or that ?North Texas? is not a baseball area. Something to that effect:
Which, sure, I get why that upsets people, but is he wrong? If Dallas/North Texas isn?t football country there is no place on Earth that is football country. Out of the four major sports, the Cowboys have had less overall success over the past 15 years than the Stars, Mavs and Rangers, but they still suck up all of the oxygen. They still have that crazy stadium, fill it up and draw silly TV ratings. It has to be a football town, yes?
This isn?t a slight on the Rangers. I know they draw well and do well in the ratings themselves and that especially in the past few years they?ve really captured the hearts of people in Texas. Rangers fans really support their team. But there?s a difference between supporting one?s team and being a baseball town, isn?t there?
In my mind ?baseball town? or ?football town? is a zero sum game. You?re one or the other. Maybe the city shows for all of its sports teams, but if the town had to vote all but one of them off the island, which would it keep? In Dallas that has to be the Cowboys. And I think it may be more of a landslide there than anyplace else.
Thing is, there aren?t a ton of baseball towns these days. Off the top of my head I?d say Boston, New York, Cincinnati and St. Louis. Probably San Francisco, though that seems more recent (I?m mostly comparing how nuts the city seemed to go for the Giants in the World Series but not so much for the 49ers in the Super Bowl). Maybe Los Angeles, but my sense is that the Lakers are a bigger deal generally speaking.
Maybe I?m missing some. Occasionally I?ll hear Detroit mentioned, but while Detroit is a very good baseball city, I feel like the Red Wings hold more sway in some intangible way. There are probably people who will say that Boston is more of a Celtics place, but I don?t know. ?I?d be curious to hear what people from each town have to say. I?m obviously guessing to a large degree.
But I don?t think I?m guessing with Dallas. That?s Cowboys country. And even if Josh Hamilton saying it is more about him being somewhat dismissive to the city that will now boo him whenever he comes to town, he?s not wrong, is he?
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