PMS 2.0 1355 - LIVE From Cary, NC at TST with Wayne Gretzky, Johnny Damon, Chris Paul & Clint Dempsey

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AJ, and the boys are LIVE once again from Cary, NC on site of The Soccer Tournament coming off a MASSIVE 2-0 Day 1 for Concafa SC. We recap Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final that saw the Oilers come back and win 4-3 in OT over the Florida Panthers, and look ahead to Game 1 of the NBA Finals where Tyrese Haliburton & the Pacers will take on SGA's OKC Thunder. In the first hour, The Great One, 4x Stanley Cup Champion, 9x NHL MVP, Wayne Gretzky joins the progrum and breaks down what makes Connor McDavid so special, the speed and physicality of the Oilers, the evolution of the game of hockey, what makes the Panthers & Oilers so succesful, his golf game, and much more. Also in the first hour, 2x World Series Champion Johnny Damon stops by the TST set and chats about how much fun Aaron Judge & Shohei Ohtani, what he's got going on with Drip FC at the tournament, and more. In the second hour, 12x All Star, 11x All-NBA, & 9x All-Defense, NBA Legend Chris Paul joins us live on stage to talk about playing with Wemby this past season in San Antonio, Tyrese Haliburton and the facilitator style of basketball, working out with Cooper Flagg, his basketball future, and more. Also in the second hour, USMNT Soccer Legend Clint Dempsey stops by to talk about the state of US Soccer, what it means to represent the country in the sport, what the team needs to do ahead of the World Cup, and more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2pm EDT), ESPN's YouTube (12-3pm EDT) or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we'll see you tomorrow LIVE in Cary, NC. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to the Wake-of-May soccer park in beautiful,
0:06.4	Carrie North Carolina, the host of TSD and our program that starts right now.
0:13.1	Clark K-Far.
0:14.8	SC is 2-0 at this TST.
0:17.3	We have a team that is potentially going to win $1 million.
0:21.7	We aren't the only squad that's hoping to win TST.
0:25.0	There are an abundance of teams out here.
0:27.1	I just got a jersey from the West Ham United team.
0:29.7	Go hammers, they say.
0:31.7	Dortmund was buying us beers last night.
0:33.7	They charged Thai 60 bucks yesterday for those same beers we had last night
0:38.0	Seamus is obviously here Johnny Damon is here and the game that is gonna be
0:42.2	be played behind us today hope solo's team is here solo FC will be taking on the
0:49.8	speedy turtles as the women's TST kicks off today as the men's have their last game of the first round today.
0:58.0	Now, elimination games begin tomorrow and our Concafe team has punched our ticket.
1:02.0	Tonight, though, we play Rexham.
1:04.0	We're trying to get a number one seed so that we can take on a bum-ass number three seed from another group
1:09.0	as we can continue to move on in this electrifying
1:13.0	t-st if you've never been i would recommend you come if you're not a soccer fan this is a style of
1:19.2	soccer i think you would enjoy and if you are a soccer fan there are legends walking all over the
1:24.4	place around here naniani's here, obviously.
1:30.8	How about Ledesma, who's on our team?
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