Ep. 215: Unusually And Unnecessarily Petty

This question comes from Mark.

And the question is, are there any rules or regulations for how music and audio is used during games? For example, could my beloved Indiana Pacers just play the chicken dance over and over again whenever the Bulls come into town? Actually, kind of a relevant question because, as many people recall, the Spurs tried to, like, psych out the Knicks by playing this stupid...

What was the song? I don't know what it

was.

It sounded like a children's TV thing like you would hear on Barney or something.

Yeah,

and it was, like, played with a recorder.

Yeah.

When I first watched the game, because it was first in... game one, I think, because we were playing in San Antonio.

I was furious.

I was like, this is the NBA finals.

That's like what you do in a

minor league baseball game, baseball reference.

This is not a high school game where you're, you know, making up silly chants against the other team's mascot.

Right.

It just felt like unusually and unnecessarily petty.

And I'm very happy that it blew up in the Spurs' faces when they won exactly zero of their home games.

Yeah.

just felt really unprofessional.

It made the finals feel less like the finals.

And I'm not going to act like I'm on this high horse as I wear a Yankee shirt, baseball reference here.

I've only packed Nixon Yankees clothes on this entire trip to New England that I've been doing for a week.

The Yankees do this.

They play the Evil Empire Star Wars song when the other teams, the lineups are getting announced, which is funny since the Yankees are called the Evil Empire.

But at least that is an evil song, but it's still a good song where it's not just this rinky-dink recorder thing.