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DiPietro & Rothenberg

Hour 4: Nolan McLean's pitch count in WBC final

DiPietro & Rothenberg

ESPN

Sports

4.6626 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Nolan McLean will get the ball for Team USA in tonight's WBC final. How do Mets fans feel about that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:09.0

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0:18.0

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0:22.6

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0:25.2

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0:30.0

This is the D.P.H Rowan and Rothenberg podcast.

0:33.8

Let the wild rumpets begin.

0:36.0

Listen live weekday mornings from 6 to 10 a.m. on 880 ESPN in New York, the ESPN New York

0:42.9

app, and on YouTube, by subscribing to the ESPN New York YouTube channel.

0:48.5

This is DiPiatoro in Rothenberg.

0:52.2

Mel Dipert Jr.

0:53.4

The people that you talk to, what do they think Ty Simpson is going to be? Fixed opinion across the board. In this particular case, guys, it pretends on Frank Reich. He's the offensive coordinator. He drafted Bryce Young. Now you have another Alabama quarterback sitting there for a team to draft a Joe Namath and Richard Todd. And certainly Frank Reich. If he says, hey, I'd sign off. I really believe in this kid.

1:11.3

Then you take him at 16.

1:12.3

If he doesn't, then you'll wait for you to find somebody else. This is D.P.H.O. and Rothenberg. Mock draft 3.0. When is the 4.0 command, Mel? April 14th. And we'll have Mel on the 14th to break it all down. Very nice. And we have Mel on the 14th on that day, too, so we'll go over that.

1:29.1

On ESPN, New York. And streaming live on YouTube. I don't know if you knew about that, Rick. Mel Kuiper Jr. on April 14th, he's going to join the show. Yeah, you were, listen, you were, you were so in the moment that it just, I let you just go. That's actually the first. That's the first I heard of it, as a matter of fact, on that rejoin. Right. I said it and then they, you said, and they started laughing. They thought it was hilarious. Yeah. It's very, you know, we make unintentional comedy on this show. That's the genius of it.

2:01.5

Can't you tell?

2:02.4

You got to laugh.

2:03.4

I mean, what are we going to do?

2:19.3

You have to. Anyway, hour number four, we are rolling along here on this Tuesday morning. It is Dan and Rick. It is DNR. A lot of football today, as you would expect. We just had Mel Kuyper Jr. on. He could go back and listen to that in the ESPN New York app if you missed it or check it out on the YouTube feed.

2:19.8

Anything.

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