Knicks Finals Doubt, Fan Trauma, and a Yankees Injury Scare

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber dig into the emotional baggage that comes with rooting for teams that have fallen short for decades. With the Knicks on the championship doorstep, Evan explains why even a promising Finals run cannot fully erase his fear that New York’s long suffering franchises are destined to disappoint. The conversation moves through Mets, Jets, Nets, Rangers, and Knicks heartbreak, caller pushback over Evan’s “loser franchise” mindset, and whether a Knicks title could permanently change the way he views fandom. The hour also touches on the Yankees’ loss to Cleveland and whether there should be concern about Aaron Judge’s health.

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0:00.0	Michael's in Connecticut. Hey, Michael.
0:02.5	Hey, guys. How's it going?
0:03.9	All's well.
0:04.3	Evan, as a fellow Xenio, I have to say, I kind of agree with you.
0:10.6	We have lived through this a hundred times before.
0:14.9	And quite honestly, I, you know, met Dolphins Knicks.
0:20.0	I know the pain of never winning. Yeah. And, you know, I met Dolphins Knicks. I know the pain of never winning.
0:21.9	Yeah.
0:22.5	And, you know, going back to the Royals Mets series, the last time one of us were in a championship.
0:29.6	Yeah.
0:29.9	It never felt like we were going to win.
0:32.3	I want to feel like we're going to win.
0:34.7	I want the parade.
0:37.2	But I know better. I know better. I feel you. This is the point in the coming. I want to be wrong. I feel you. But I'm on the same page as you. No, I feel you because let me remind you about 2015. You said something that was incorrect. I'm not going to find the audio, though I guess I could.
0:54.3	It would take a while. Everybody picked the Mets in the 2015 World Series of this radio station. Every single person but me. Yeah. Because I knew better. I knew, hey, we're losers. We don't win. But to a T, the Mets were winning that series. Let's not rewrite history. Let's not act as if, well, we knew. I mean, the Royals, they lost the seventh game the year before.
1:12.9	They were never beating.
1:14.1	That is... Let's not rewrite history. Let's not act as if, well, we knew. I mean, the Royals, they lost the seventh game the year before.
1:12.9	They were never beating.
1:14.4	That is crap.
1:16.4	That's not true.
1:17.9	That's not the tone around this place.
1:20.4	When the Jets beat the Patriots in Foxborough and got to Pittsburgh, I think Francesa picked
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