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As a New Yorker who's just tuning in and
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mostly consumes New York sports talk,
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why do national hosts always have this
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negative vibe for the for New York and
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the sky is always falling? That might be
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New York sports talk hosts locally.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think most of the
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reason is that the teams have not won a
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championship in so long and you have
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this natural rivalry inside the city to
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where nobody's ever unified. It's very,
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very different than almost any other
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place. Of course, baseball in Chicago's
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like this and then most of the sports if
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not all the sports now in LA are like
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But it's unique in this way.
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We all can't be happy the same time in
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New York. If you're a Mets fan, you hate
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when the Yankees are good and vice
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versa. If you're a Jets fan, you hate
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when the Giants are good and vice versa.
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Knicks, Rangers, Devils, Nets and Knicks
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and so nobody can ever be happy for one
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another. Nobody can always There's never
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a time the city can just be happy. So
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you have this natural negativity that's
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always there even when you win.
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But when you lose, it's twice as bad as
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any other city because your fan base is
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miserable because you're losing and then
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the other fan base is rubbing it in your
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So it lends itself to this ultimate
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cycle of negativity. Like I'm a Mets
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The team sucks this year. We know this.
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The season's probably over. It's not
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even Memorial Day yet.
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I basically don't have baseball to look
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forward to in June, July, August and
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September this year let alone October.
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But not only do I have to deal with
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that, I have to deal with A, the Yankees
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being good and B, the Yankee fan also
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taunting me every single day about it.
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So it compounds the misery.
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If you were in a one team town, if
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you're miserable, everybody's miserable.
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The worst is when you're miserable and
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other people are happy. Your neighbors
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are happy. Your family could be happy.
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Your friends are happy. It's the worst.
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That's why. And then of course in a huge
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market like New York, your media is
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going to be naturally pretty vicious.
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New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago
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to a degree. These are pretty vicious
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sports towns. New York is just vicious.
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It's got a hyper-competitive media
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market, a lot of alpha males, a lot of
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angst, a lot of anxiety that goes along
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with them being fans of these teams. And
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when the Jets have been miserable
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forever and the Mets haven't won
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anything since '86 and the Rangers
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haven't won anything since the mid-90s,
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the Islanders haven't won anything since
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the early '80s, and the Jets, I
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mentioned the Jets, and even the Yankees
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are on a streak of not winning a World
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Series in 15 years, and the Nets have
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never won anything, and the Knicks
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haven't won anything since the '70s, it
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if there were titles to be had, it'd be
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a little softer. But there's just not a
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That's where the good luck charm comes
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You know, it's funny because I spent a
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year in Orlando and I shadowed a a radio
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host who was actually or still is the
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the pre- and post-game host for the
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they were talking about how at the time
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to call it a chance would be very
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generous. There was conversation that
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the Rays might move to Orlando, which is
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saying conversation is way too strong,
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but there was a glimmer of enough to
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talk about it on sport talk radio. Yeah.
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uh they were they were talking about it
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and whatnot, and then they brought me on
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and asked me questions about the New
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in the summer, what sports talk radio is
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I was like, you know, New York's
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different when there's another city
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asking questions about what another city
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is like regarding their baseball teams.
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I was sitting there and
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"Everything matters in New York. If
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there's a blown save,
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there's going to be complaints about
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that guy's job the next day."
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It's ridiculous. Absolutely. The
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intensity of the baseball season's
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unlike a lot of other places. It might
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have been like this when the Cardinals
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were really good in St. Louis. That's a
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When the Red Sox were chasing the ghosts
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in '03 and '04, late '90s, early 2000s,
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it was like this for EEEI in Boston and
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in the Herald and the Globe. But few
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places ride highs and lows of baseball
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like New York. So again,
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you also have this intensity of every
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single day from April through September
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are all games that seem like they're
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important, which is also kind of this
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exhausting cycle that you are on in New
