PMS 2.0 1376 - 5 Star Linebacker Tyler Atkinson Makes His College Commitment, Cal Raleigh, Dana White, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap the Home Run Derby and their experience being apart of it and the two days as a whole embedded in the baseball world. They are also joined by a few great guests including 5 star linebacker from Georgia, the #1 linebacker in the nation, Tyler Atkinson as he makes his college commitment and the recruiting process as a whole, “Big Dumper” Cal Raleigh joins the show fresh off an incredible performance becoming only the 2nd Mariner to win the Home Run Derby next to Ken Griffey Jr. to chat about an incredible night with his dad pitching and little brother catching, what changes he’d make to the derby, if he felt more pressure to perform, and how special it all was overall. Lastly, the President of the UFC, Dana White joins the show to preview this weekend’s fights including Dustin Poirier’s last fight against Max Holloway for the BMF title, the latest on Jon Jones’ situation, a potential fight card at the White House on July 4th next year, and much much more. 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 be LIVE tomorrow in LA at the ESPY’s. 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 Thunderdome.
0:06.2	On this MLB All-Star Game Tuesday, July 15th, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.3	Sports!
0:14.1	Our happening all around us yesterday, we had the incredible honor of being a part of the MLB All-Star game and its home run derby.
0:20.3	What an electrifying day.
0:21.7	Big shout out to the commissioner for stopping by, C.C. Sabathia for stopping by,
0:26.2	Aaron Judge for stopping by. Shohei Otani stopping by. And obviously, the jet, jet pass and
0:31.9	swung by to keep us all in check for our baseball knowledge. He actually assumed what was
0:36.6	going to happen in the home run derby and inevitably did happen. A big dumper wins the home run derby
0:42.1	last night. Congrats to Cal Raleigh. Proud of you dump. Proud of you dump. Me and let's go to the
0:49.0	talks of table at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Great jersey there. Con man, Ty. Obviously,
0:54.1	you were an all-star in the MLB this
0:56.7	year. Congratulations on that. We kind of got a full make-a-wish experience from the MLB folks. I would say
1:04.1	yesterday. No, yeah, without a doubt. I mean, we've talked about like, you know, my personal make-a-wish
1:08.8	situations. Obviously, the Golden Knights back, like that was one thing, you know, my personal make-a-wish situations. Obviously, the Golden Knights back.
1:11.3	Like, that was one thing, you know, riding around on the Zamboni. I'm sure.
1:14.4	The Golden Knight started as a organization eight years ago, 10 years ago. Right. Exactly.
1:19.6	So what we got to do last night, I mean, it was very evident early on there after we did the
1:26.0	intros, which is, again, just still insane to think that we did that.
1:30.1	There was a lot of baseball people that really loved.
1:32.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:33.7	That's what I heard.
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