{"id":624526,"date":"2026-04-24T01:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624526\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:32:22","slug":"a-new-survey-reveals-the-mlbs-most-foul-mouthed-fanbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624526\/","title":{"rendered":"A new survey reveals the MLB&#8217;s most foul-mouthed fanbase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"speakable\">When you start thinking about which <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\">MLB<\/a> teams&#8217; fanbases have the filthiest mouths, there&#8217;s a good chance a few cities instantly jump to mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In fact, there&#8217;s a good chance <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/philadelphia\">Philadelphia<\/a> popped into your head. It did for me.<\/p>\n<p>But a new survey from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasinsider.com\/mlb\/data-analysis-the-most-foul-mouthed-and-negative-mlb-fandoms-2026\/\">Vegas Insider<\/a> has found the most foul-mouthed fanbases in the MLB, and the top team might surprise you a little at first&#8230; and then it will make total sense.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/athletics_fans_signing.jpeg\" alt=\"Athletics fans\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>A new survey has found that Athletics fans are the most foul-mouthed in Major League Baseball. (Scott Marshall-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>That team? Technically, a franchise that played in Philadelphia at one point, but <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/mlbs-athletics-wont-have-californias-capital-part-team-name-despite-playing-sacramento-until-2027\">is now in Sacramento limbonow in Sacramento limbo<\/a> ahead of a move to Vegas: the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/phillies-players-scatter-rat-runs-along-dugout-another-loss-extending-seven-game-skid\">PHILLIES PLAYERS SCATTER AS RAT RUNS ALONG DUGOUT DURING ANOTHER LOSS, EXTENDING SEVEN-GAME SKID<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was determined by combing through each of the 30 Big League teams&#8217; subreddits on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/twitter\">social media platform<\/a> Reddit and determining the percentage of comments that contained an expletive.<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s led the league with a 6.03% of comments containing a swear word, the most common of which was &#8220;f&#8211;k.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Second was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/boston-red-sox-hit-rock-bottom-fans-spot-disgraceful-item-sold-team-store\">the <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/boston\">Boston<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> \u2014 another one of my guesses for top dog \u2014 whose comments featured a four-letter word 5.114% of the time.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/padres-players-held-back-after-confronting-umpires-following-controversial-season-ending-loss-cubs\">PADRES PLAYERS HELD BACK AFTER CONFRONTING UMPIRES FOLLOWING CONTROVERSIAL SEASON-ENDING LOSS TO CUBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most swear-heavy team that made &#8220;s&#8211;t&#8221; their favorite word was the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\/houston-astros\">Houston Astros<\/a>, who came in at No. 9.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/athletics_fans.jpeg\" alt=\"Athletics fans\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The Athletics faithful have had plenty to cuss about in recent years. (Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>Now, I was a little surprised about the A&#8217;s at first, but given the frustrating lack of success followed by their <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/athletics-sacramento-era-starts-historic-blowout-sell-team-chants-peculiar-circumstances\">move out of Oakland<\/a>, I get it.<\/p>\n<p>If my team were picking up shop, skipping town, and then <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/athletics-cant-wait-trade-pitcher-luis-severino-after-his-blunt-complaints-about-teams-ballpark-report\">playing in a minor league park<\/a> for a few years, I&#8217;d probably let some expletives fly, too.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/link.podtrac.com\/dmwdd_article\">ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON&#8217;T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same study also measured the tone of comments, with the Boston Red Sox having the most negative fans, followed by the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Again. Somewhat self-explanatory.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, better days are ahead for the Athletics faithful.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it seems like they may start adding some swear jars <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/athletics-fan-confronted-security-wearing-sell-t-shirt-caught-live-broadcast\">around the stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you start thinking about which MLB teams&#8217; fanbases have the filthiest mouths, there&#8217;s a good chance a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,6682,231762,82],"class_list":["post-624526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}