Mariners fans remain confident in direction of the team, polls show

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Here in our third week of FanPulse results we’re starting to get enough data to track how fans are feeling week-to-week. With the Mariners off to their hottest start in literal decades, you won’t be surprised to find that fans feel confident in the direction of the team:

Scott Servais is enjoying the winning bump as well, with his Manager Approval rating shooting up to 87% from last week’s 79%.

Those are pretty lofty numbers, but they’re only good for third-best in the AL West: Astros fans (97%) and Oakland fans (96%) edge out Mariners fans (94%) in the confidence index.

This week, we did things a little differently and polled all respondents on the same question:

I don’t have the numbers broken out by our specific community, but I’d be surprised if those numbers aren’t a little more heavily in favor of batflips for us. I wonder which communities are dragging the numbers down. Who do you think are the most curmudgeonly fanbases?

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