PMS 2.0 1515 - World Baseball Classic Quarterfinal Preview, Adam Schefter, Jeff Passan, Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark, Quentin Richardson, Michael Pittman Jr., & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight’s USA baseball Quarterfinal matchup with Team Canada in the World Baseball Classic, wrap up everything with Free Agency, discuss the craziness happening in the NBA, and NCAA basketball being in full swing in conference tournament season with Selection Sunday this weekend. Joining the progrum to put a tidy bow on free agency is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Next, ESPN Senior MLB Insider, Jeff Passan joins the show to preview this weekend’s World Baseball Classic matchups. Then, Commissioner of the Big 12, Brett Yormark joins the show to chat about changing the LED court to traditional hardwood at the Big 12 Tournament, and the Presidential Roundtable around NIL. Later, 2000 1st round pick, 3 point contest champion, 13 year NBA veteran, and current ESPN NBA analyst, Quentin Richardson joins the progrum to give an update on everything that has happened around the NBA. Lastly, new starting WR for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Michael Pittman Jr. joins the show to chat about the trade from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh, finding out while he was in Uganda, if he’s had any conversation with Aaron Rodgers, finding his footing in the locker room, and 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 see you on Monday, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people.
0:03.0	And welcome to our Humbley Bo, the Thunderdome, on this feel good.
0:08.9	Let's beat Canada.
0:10.1	Friday to 13th.
0:11.2	This sports market will be now.
0:13.7	Sports!
0:14.7	I got so excited to say America's about to be Canada again.
0:17.2	I almost had to take it in for a moment.
0:18.5	I almost had to realize that today is another
0:21.4	day where competition is going to steal the day. Today, the United States of America takes on
0:26.8	Canada in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic. We are now favored at minus 900
0:32.9	straight up to beat Canada. I will be placing a very hefty bet on a nice straight up dub as
0:39.9	Logan Webb, an absolute stallion from the San Francisco Giants, will be dealing against a Canadian
0:46.0	team that I'll tell you what, if they beat us tonight, it's going to be very loud with how loud
0:51.8	we were after we took hockey from them, both our women and our men.
0:57.3	We need our United States boys to hit dong shots.
1:00.7	We need Logan to beat Dyson.
1:02.5	We need Dero to be dealing.
1:04.6	And we need this team to go on a run to beat Canada tonight.
1:09.8	Now, they were maybe not even going to make it to the quarterfinals.
1:12.4	Okay, that was a slight miscalculation by some things.
1:17.0	We lose one game to Italy, and then all of a sudden, wait a minute, we need Italy to win over Mexico,
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