Every weekend the Wall Street Journal publishes Sentiment Tracker: A Computational Analysis of the Conversation on Social Networks.
And every weekend the Journal fails to post the acccompanying nifty pie charts (check the dead-tree edition) on its website.
So the hardworking staff is forced to produce an analog version of this week’s feature, The Blues of the Red Sox.
It enumerates “the online buzz about the Wednesday-night loss of the Boston Red Sox, robbing the team of a chance for the playoffs.”
Campaign Outsider pieless chart:
POSITIVE 14%
“Best thing about baseball in Boston is when the Re Sox aren’t in the playoff . . . no Red Sox Traffic!”
“Hey, Red Sox, enjoy your golf!”
NEGATIVE 20%
“Red Sox just broke my heart again . . . ”
“I put all of my Red Sox attire in the back corner of my closet, and I’m not even looking at it again until 2013!”
NEUTRAL 66%
“Red Sox game on TV = no homework getting done.”
“What a poetic ending to the Red Sox season. So much to say, and 140 characters doesn’t cut it for this one.”
Sixty-six percent neutral.
What does that say about Red Sox Nation?
Nothing good, we say.
You’re just a happy Yankees fan right now, aren’t you? Jeez.
Not all that happy tonight, Christian.