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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1420 - Watt Wednesday, In The Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, Kyle Schwarber, Cal Raleigh, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 210 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AQ Shipley, AJ Hawk to recap the MLB Postseason action & the latest news ahead of NFL Week 5 & CFB Week 6, including the Browns turning to Dillon Gabriel at starting quarterback in London against the Vikings, AQ Shipley's takeaways, and more. In the first hour, we are joined by future Hall of Famer, 3x DPOY, Walter Payton Man of the Year, and now color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt to talk about his childhood diet, TJ Watt & the Steelers performance in Dublin, Ireland (Hup Hup Hup), the game he called between the Commanders & Falcons, and more. In the second hour, World Series Champion & 3x All Star, Phillies DH, Kyle Schwarber joined the progrum to talk about what he is doing during the Phillies bye, their intrasquad game tonight at Citizen Bank park, his approach and the plate, and more. From there, we are joined by Catcher for the Seattle Mariners, Cal Raleigh, fresh off a 60 HR & 125 RBI season, to chat about how the Seattle Mariners are using their bye week, the craziness of his regular season, and much more. We wrap things up with In the Trenches with AQ Shipley and Everything DB: Good D, Bad D with Darius Butler. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's YouTube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We will be LIVE from the ThunderDome tomorrow previewing TNF and more. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, beautiful people. Full graphics failure as the show launches full system failure.

0:07.1

Obviously, everybody will be able to figure that out on this glorious Watt Wednesday, October 1st, 2025.

0:14.0

We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. The program today is stacked.

0:18.0

We got J.J. Watt joining us in about 15 minutes or so. Now, normally he's in a second hour. Yeah. Sure. He comes to the first hour strictly because in his second hour, we're doing baseball. Whoa. We're doing baseball. Listen, now that's nine-year NFL vet. Darius J. Butler hitting a whoa right there, which is an accurate response, response I think because this is out of the

0:37.9

norm don't you think so debuts very much so I know we didn't get our football in the day so I guess

0:42.6

we'll I mean still starting with it we get some baseball yeah we do yeah and that's why

0:47.1

that's why the beginning the show was what it was because what you normally think of this show

0:50.5

especially this time of year I mean it, it's October 1st. Yeah.

1:13.2

Rabbit, rabbit, to everybody out there. These guys are only going to be talking about football, especially if they got JJ Watts scheduled to be in there. But, uh-uh, baseball is electrifying. And guess who we're talking to? 12-year NFL vet. Super Bowl champion, A.Q. Shipley. Yay! Akew! Hey, Jush, do you know who we're talking to in the baseball road in the second hour?

1:47.5

Am I allowed to say it? Oh, so you do know your second. I do know who you. Okay, okay. Say who you think. It's two people. I'll be excited to see who he says first. Who is the guy that we get a chance to chat with in a second hour? The big dumper, Cal Raleigh. That's right, Cal Rale. The M.L.B. Leader and ding-dongs will be joining us in the next hour. Obviously, Seattle Mariners Superstar. They've won the AL West for the first time since 2001. Boom. Look at you. So what Caldoli has done not only on both sides of the plate, but also behind the plate.

1:48.0

This guy basically has the plate surrounded and he is doing good things all the way around

1:52.0

the ballpark.

1:53.0

He'll be joining us for what he is, I assume dubbed a special season for a player, for a town, for a team, for a legacy, for a storyline, going into,

2:05.6

obviously, a beautiful playoff since started yesterday in a fantastic way. And then, oh, yeah,

2:10.2

we got the second leader in home runs in the MLB, in MLB, sorry, Kyle Schwabo.

2:16.6

Both of them? Yeah, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, a superstar. Yeah, he's been there for a few years. Obviously, Schwabo hit himself 50-something ding-dongs. 55. 55 ding-dongs this year. And this guy is a monster. He's 32 years old. I got a chance to see him whenever he came down to Indiana for college game day and made the picks. He was fantastic there. Obviously goes to the Cubs, fantastic there. He's been here now, I think, three years, I believe, at this point. He's 32 years old. He's a DH, and what he's designated to do is succeed. And he's only getting better, it feels like, and this Philly's team, real deal. Let's go to the Toxic Table at Ty Schmidt. Shout out to baseball having a huge wildcard day. And shout out to Toxic Tables at Boston Connor in the Boston Red Sox getting a huge win over your New York Yankees. But can we talk about Schwabell a little bit joining us in the next hour? Phillies might be a magical team every single year. This year does have something brewing, it feels like. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, everyone's looking, especially after last night seeing what the Dodgers did, they just beat the absolute shit out of the Reds. So everyone's saying, hey, who could beat the Dodgers in the NL? If anyone's going to do it or the team that most likely will do it, it's going to be the Phillies. You're seeing all these different shots from Schwabber here. When this guy hits homers, he doesn't just, you know, hit a little cheapy, two, three rows into the seats. Like, he's hitting balls 500 feet into the night. Deep, deep, deep. They're a very deep lineup. They have good pitching. One of the big things, and I'll be interested to see what these guys have to say about it, baseball is such a sprint. You're playing so well, and then the playoffs start, and you get like a week off almost while all these other wildcard teams are battling out to see who's going to play teams like the Phillies and the Mariners. So it's very interesting when these guys, him and Cal Raleigh are as hot as they are. Now you just got to sit and wait a week, kind of, which kind of goes against everything that you want in baseball. When you're hot, you just want to play, play, play, play. So we'll see. Rest and Rust and Rust situation, you know, last night and yesterday as a whole, baseball had a huge wall card. Yeah. In the headline, I think, with a lot of people that maybe don't have rooting interest for any of these teams, Red Sox Yankees battling. And I'll tell you what, it was a great day to be a Red Sox. What a time for the boss of Red Sox to knock off the Yankees in a Best of three series. Are the Yankees about to be?

4:35.9

Are the Yankees about to be? There's chance. I do that yet. There's chance.

4:41.5

There are nine innings away potentially from their season being over because of the Boston.

4:45.6

Red Sox, Connor, I know you haven't been following this Red Sox team all season. True. But let's say you had followed the headlines. You were very optimistic about this Red Sox team. Maybe next year, young team going forward, are they about the gritty their way to a massive upset over the Yankees here in the wildcard? I think maybe from the outside world you would think it's massive, but as someone who's followed the team, it's not massive.

5:04.9

You know, this team is built for this.

5:06.4

Garrett Crochet, once again. I mean, he's punching everybody out. 13Ks, I think seven to two-thirds. I mean, this guy's a stud. Ty, I got to say, he called, Aaron Judge is the greatest right-handed hitter of all time. he hit two of the hardest singles I've ever fucking seen last night.

5:22.0

What's that called?

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