The good folks over at Grammarly spent hours upon hours scouring official websites and top sports blogs/sites for NBA, MLB, and NFL teams, proofreading the top five comments on select stories across the web. Docking fans for "black-and-white mistakes such as misspellings, wrong and missing punctuation, misused or missing words, and subject-verb disagreement," Grammarly's researchers put together a scoring system that averages out the amount of mistakes fans made per 100 words.
This next group of teams is the best of an MLB fan pool that finished second among North America's three major professional sports leagues with 7.90 mistakes per 100 words. (NBA, 4.55 & NFL, 7.97) Here's our list of the 6 Smartest MLB Fan Bases On The Internet, According To Research.
(Mistakes per 100 words listed next to team name.)
6. Milwaukee Brewers 5.3
Beer and brats must help create a protective sheath around the brain.
T4. Chicago Cubs 5.2
There's enough literature out there about the Cubs and the Curse of the Billy Goat to fill a reservoir. A large sect of the Cubs' loyal fan base has likely read a ton.
T4. Seattle Mariners 5.2
Drink enough Starbucks and you'll be alert enough to catch your grammar mistakes too.
3. Chicago White Sox 4.8
The Windy City has a rich literary history. It's no wonder why Chicago sports two of the most literate fan bases in baseball.
2. San Diego Padres 4.4
If this was the Chargers we were talking about, we'd be confused about they found five comments on a story. But, we digress.
1. Cleveland Indians 3.6
To be fair, it's really to type "God hates Cleveland" into a comment box.
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