PMS 2.0 1361 - US Open Recap, NBA Finals Game 5 Preview, Quentin Richardson, Jeff Passan, Jackie Redmond, Shams Charania, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about JJ Spaun’s improbable US Open win at Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh, where the course showed its teeth over the weekend. They also cover all the different news floating around the NFL, and preview tonight’s game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Thunder and Pacers. Joining the show to chat about tonight’s game and the Finals as a whole is 13 year NFL veteran, former 3 point contest champion, co-host of the Knuckleheads podcast, and ESPN NBA analyst, Quentin Richardson. Next, ESPN Senior MLB Insider, Jeff Passan joins the show to talk about Shohei Ohtani making his pitching debut tonight, and the blockbuster trade that sent Red Sox star Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. Next, NHL rinkside reporter and WWE contributor, Jackie Redmond joins the show to chat about the Stanley Cup Finals and how she sees the rest of the series playing out. Lastly, ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania joins the show to discuss tonight’s Finals game, and the number of trades that may be happening in the next few days/weeks. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdell.
0:05.4	On this overreaction Monday, June 16th, 2025, this program starts right now.
0:13.6	Sports!
0:14.4	Are happening all around us.
0:16.1	Don't look now.
0:17.0	We have a tied NBA final series.
0:19.9	Don't look now.
0:24.4	We have a brand new U.S. Open final series don't look now we have a brand new US Open champion don't look now we are one game away potentially from a back-to-back Lord Stanley Cup winner in the Florida
0:30.9	panther sports are awesome I mean even the Pope let off his father's day sermon with chitch
0:35.7	chatting about the greatness of sports. And I think,
0:38.9	I'd like to start right there, actually, because every day we get the opportunity to chit-chat
0:42.8	about sports. And I feel like we have a passion for sports more than most people. We are lucky
0:47.6	to enjoy the hell out of sports. We are lucky that my entire life, and I assume a lot of boys in here
0:52.0	as well, has literally been committed to sports.
0:54.8	Mr. Pope said, in a society marked by solitude, where radical individualism has shifted the emphasis
1:00.6	instead of emphasis from us to me, resulting in a deficit of real concern for others.
1:06.3	Sport, especially team sports, teaches the value of cooperating, working together, and sharing.
1:12.0	These are at the very heart of God's own life. Amen, amen. In an increasingly digital society,
1:17.2	where technology brings distant people closer together, yet often creates distances between
1:22.7	those who are physically close, sport proves a valuable and concrete means of bringing individuals together,
1:28.9	providing a healthier sense of the body of space, effort, and real time. It helps to preserve
1:34.9	a healthy contact with nature and with real life, where genuine love is experience. Amen,
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