There are two very dumb things that happen every year during every professional sport’s postseason without fail.
First, it is written in the Bible somewhere that media members in one city must take a bunch of juvenile potshots about another city for no other reason than teams from the two cities are competing against each other. There is no better way to get ready to battle than to rip the other town for having crappy weather or bad bagels or something of that sort.
Second, some team must follow through with the time-honored tradition of making performative efforts to deny the other team’s fans from attending the games they will be hosting.