Hour 2: Knicks Gear, Giants Drama, and the Politics of Fandom

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber cover a packed hour of New York sports debates, starting with the pride and embarrassment that come with wearing conference championship gear after a team falls short. From Knicks Finals shirts to Mets pennant sweatshirts, Yankees World Series hats, and Giants NFC Championship gear, the conversation becomes a wider look at what fans celebrate, what they mock, and why context matters. The hour also gets into a creative Aaron Judge heckle, NBA flopping and Adam Silver’s response, the Jets handling of Kenyon Sadiq injury update, and the Giants fallout around Jaxson Dart and Abdul Carter. Along the way, Evan and Tiki connect fan psychology, team drama, locker room perception, and even the butt fumble into one broad question about how sports moments live on after the game ends.

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0:00.0	One of the small reasons, I admit it's not the main reason, but one of the small reasons why I hate that they play loud music at sporting events is you lose organic moments.
0:08.9	You lose moments where there's a stray fan who just screamed something clearly in a microphone and everyone gets to hear it.
0:16.0	If you're blasting Star Wars music, you'll never hear that.
0:18.8	Right.
0:19.2	So last night, if you were watching the Yankee game, you certainly heard it because Ryan
0:22.7	Rucco and David Cohn referred to it, and we'll
0:24.7	play it for you if you missed it. There
0:26.7	was a guy taunting Aaron Judge
0:28.9	and I just got to say
0:30.9	creative is all hell.
0:32.8	Like, I'm not a fan of
0:34.8	bleep Trey Young or
0:36.7	bleep Aaron Judge or whatever, just the easy common denominator chant.
0:42.6	So this guy didn't chant.
0:44.4	This guy dared.
0:45.8	This guy dared Aaron Judge to do something he would never do.
0:49.9	So I take you back to last night's Yankee game.
0:53.0	It's while Ben Rice was at the plate with the bases loaded.
0:55.7	Big at bat in the game.
0:56.7	And Aaron judges on deck.
0:58.7	And you will hear the fan.
1:00.0	And then Ryan Rucco and David Cohn comment on said fan.
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