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At 0.93, CC Sabathia is the strongest pull in the Yankees' top 10 — and the shape reveals two distinct audience neighborhoods rather than one unified cluster.
The top 10 splits cleanly along two axes. One is individual athletes: Sabathia (0.93), Curtis Granderson (0.92), Noah Syndergaard (0.83), and Alex Rodriguez (0.83) all rank among the closest neighbors, suggesting the Yankees' audience overlaps heavily with followers of specific players — including, notably, a Mets pitcher in Syndergaard. The other axis is New York-area sports franchises: the New York Mets (0.92), New York Rangers (0.88), New York Jets (0.88), and New York Giants (0.86) all cluster tightly in the 0.86–0.92 band. The Yankees' audience, in other words, looks like both a player-follower crowd and a broad New York multi-sport fan base simultaneously — the two-peak structure the shape flag identifies.
Rounding out the top 10 are two media properties that serve the same audience: Kay Show on YES (0.88), a TV show, and Mets Booth (0.85), a podcast — both oriented toward New York baseball coverage. The presence of a rival team's broadcast property at 0.85 underscores how thoroughly geography and sport, rather than team allegiance alone, define this audience's shape.
The overall picture is a New York sports audience that follows individual athletes and multiple franchises in parallel, with baseball media as the connective tissue.
