the buzz log
Mets Sink, But Not In Search
The New York Mets' stretch-run collapse is the baseball equivalent of Britney's VMA performance—terrifying to watch, yet impossible to turn away from. Searchers agreed. Bewildered fans sent queries on the suggestive "fire willie randolph" and factual "mets suck" sky high following the team's amazin' elimination.
Clearly, life stinks if you're a Mets fan, but for backers of the Padres and Rockies, there's still hope. The two teams play today in a winner-take-all contest for the last playoff spot. Below, we break down the searches on each squad. Play ball!
| Padres and Rockies Face-Off | |||
| San Diego Padres | Colorado Rockies | The Winner Is... | |
| The Season in Search | The Padres were popular from wire to wire. | A late surge in Search by the Rockies gave them a boost. | San Diego had the better overall season in Search. |
| On a Winning Streak? | Up a modest 16% this week. | Red hot Rockies up 173% | Rocky mountain high, baby. |
| Most Popular Player | Jake Peavy | Matt Holliday | MVP candidate Holliday has ten times the Searches. |
| Team's Oddest Related Search | "san diego padres paint" | "colorado rockies lounges" | They're both strange. Let's settle this one on the field... |
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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