PMS 2.0 1517 - Jaylen Waddle Traded to the Broncos, World Baseball Classic Championship Preview, Adam Schefter, Jeff Passan, Seth Greenberg, 2026 Players Champion Cameron Young, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys react to the breaking news that Jaylen Waddle has been traded from the Dolphins to the Broncos for what was essentially a 1st and 3rd round pick and what might be coming next as ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter joins them. Then they preview tonight’s World Baseball Classic Finals and why it has been such a success for baseball with ESPN Senior MLB Insider, Jeff Passan. Later, former Head Coach of Virginia Tech and current ESPN NCAA analyst, Seth Greenberg joins the show to preview the NCAA tournament including who he likes in tonight’s First 4 games. Lastly, 2x PGA Tour winner including last week’s Players Championship, the breakout star of the 2025 Ryder Cup, Cameron Young joins the show to chat about his massive win on Sunday and everything it entailed, his expectations after his emergence at the Ryder Cup, what he’s learned about his game over the last year of so, 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 the Bole of Thunderdum on this St. Patty's Day World Championship, March 17th.
0:10.0	This sports program begins now.
0:13.0	Sports!
0:14.0	Are the greatest.
0:15.0	Tonight, there's a world championship on the line as USA is the home team taking on Venezuela
0:21.3	in the World Baseball Classic Championship in Miami.
0:24.9	Obviously, Team USA looking to get back America's pastime
0:29.1	as officially ours.
0:30.3	Last year, or last time World Baseball Classic happened,
0:33.2	lost to Japan.
0:34.3	Shohei Otani in a ninth inning struck out Mike Trout.
0:37.6	It was a dramatic ending to a tournament that captivated a country in countries from around
0:43.1	the globe.
0:44.1	This year, numbers and ratings are through the roof.
0:46.4	The most watched thing that FS1 has had and maybe forever.
0:49.8	Team USA is bringing the juice and World Baseball Classic is putting baseball on the map in a big way.
0:55.4	So much so that online there's even conversations about, hey, after NFL and college football,
1:00.5	is baseball have a chance to really make a run at this entire thing?
1:03.6	Obviously, fresh off the Olympics, hockey is having a nice run.
1:06.3	The NBA, whenever their playoffs get going, I assume everybody's going to happen,
1:09.3	get excited about March madness.
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