Thursday’s St. Louis Cardinals World Series Game 6 was probably the most exciting game in Major League Baseball history. The game was an emotional roller-coaster.

We decided it would be fun to do a quick analysis of the tweet-stream flowing into STLTweetsduring the game time. The graph below plots the “relative emotion” in 5 minute intervals from 6:00PM to midnight. We examined every tweet that had an “emotion word” (like yay, darn, win, lose) and counted those tweets as either positive, negative or both (ignoring tweets with no emotional content). Next we computed the relative percentage that we’re positive and negative, subtracted those percentages and plotted the net difference. If the line is below the zero-line, that time period was dominated by negative-emotion tweets.

It was quite a ride. If someone has a timeline of the game, I’ll add the annotations.