White Sox Fans Cheer Phantom Series

Would it be fair to call this year's World Series the "Quite Frankly" of postseason series? The just-complete White Sox whitewashing of the Astros, turns out, was the worst-rating Series of all time, just beating out the Angels-Giants Series of 2002, a Series that had the advantage of going seven taut games.

The Assimilated Negro says this is because people don't care about teams that aren't in New York City, Boston or the Cubs ... and frankly, we're starting to kind of believe him. People moan about East Coast bias, but every year, when the Red Sox or Yankees are in the Series, the ratings improve. When they're not — even when the entrants are from Southern California or San Francisco, not exactly sleepy burgs — they fall through the floor. Even that dog of a series a couple of years ago between the Yankees and Marlins got better ratings ... just because the Yankees were around.

We're not sure what more proof we need here: Like it or not, baseball does better when the Yankees or Red Sox are in the Series. We fall in the "or not" camp, but hey, we're not the ones paying for advertisements.

White Sox-Astros Lowest Rated Series Ever [ESPN] Sorry White Sox Fans, If No One Saw You Win Then It Doesn't Count [The Assimilated Negro]