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The top 10 neighbors span four distinct subcategory types — Sports Teams, Podcasts and Radio, News Publishers, Athletes, and Government — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the others, a pattern consistent with the broad shape classification.
The four other Sports Teams in the top 10 form the core: New York Rangers at 0.96, New York Jets at 0.95, New York Giants at 0.94, and New York Yankees at 0.92. These are same-kind neighbors, meaning the Mets' audience composition closely mirrors that of other New York-market franchises across multiple sports. Alongside them, Mets Booth (0.96, Podcasts and Radio) and Newsday (0.94, News Publishers) suggest that team-adjacent media — a dedicated broadcast outlet and a regional newspaper — carry nearly identical audience shapes to the team itself.
The cross-kind neighbors are where the breadth becomes visible. CC Sabathia and Noah Syndergaard (both 0.92, Athletes) represent individual players rather than franchises. New Jersey (0.91, Government) and Kay Show on YES (0.93, TV Shows) extend the neighbor set into regional civic and sports-media territory. The scores across all ten neighbors range only from 0.91 to 0.96 — a narrow band — confirming that no single neighbor dominates and that the audience shape is distributed broadly across New York-area sports, media, and civic entities.
This pattern points to an audience defined primarily by geographic and multi-sport loyalty rather than by attachment to any single team, league, or media format.
