PMS 2.0 1521 - MLB Opening Night Preview, Lavonte David, UConn Head Coach Dan Hurley, David Ross, NASCAR Superstar Tyler Reddick, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about MLB Opening Night on Netflix as the Yankees travel to San Francisco to take on the Giants, they look at some of the best bets, look at other Pro Day’s that have been happening around the country, some NFL news, the NBA approving expansion teams in Seattle and Las Vegas, and everything else happening around the sports world. They’re also joined by several great guests including Super Bowl Champion, 3x All-Pro, Pro Bowler, 14 year NFL veteran who just recently retired, Lavonte David, 2x National Champion and Head Coach of UConn, Dan Hurley joins the show ahead of Friday night’s Sweet 16 tilt against Michigan State, 2x World Series Champion, ESPN MLB analyst, and co-host of the Lovable Reunion with Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, and lastly 2x NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion, Driver for Team 23XI, Tyler Reddick. 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 Thunderdome, on this Hello
0:07.2	Baseball Wednesday, March 25th, 2006. This program begins now. Sports are the greatest and we're so
0:15.8	incredibly thankful and lucky that we get a chance to chat about them every single day and it's hello
0:21.4	baseball wednesday because tonight MLB starts their regular season as Aaron judge and the
0:27.6	Yankees take on all world baseball classic pitcher logan webb and the san francisco giants in san francisco
0:35.1	on netflix obviously there's a cast of net Netflix characters that'll be covering the game this evening.
0:40.3	There's a lot of question marks on how it'll all go.
0:42.3	We assume it'll be fantastic.
0:43.3	We cannot wait to watch the big night, launch the big leagues, launch the big show,
0:49.3	and we will watch 162 games of each of these teams as we are now a fully committed baseball program.
0:56.0	Hell yeah!
0:57.0	Hell yeah!
0:58.0	March Madness, Sweet 16 continues tomorrow.
1:01.0	We obviously have magic happening around the NFL and Dan Rolovsky had a long day on the internet.
1:08.0	We would like to let everybody know we love Dan Rolovsky. We birthed O'Ovsky. So, like, we actually love Dano. He swam himself right into this one, so that's on him. But we know Dano, Dan will go back to the tape. Dan will continue to do his thing. We appreciate Dan. We love Dan. And we, I kind of hate how he does stuff and then plays victim.
1:29.5	Sure.
1:30.1	I don't like how that happens.
1:31.7	I see that.
1:32.2	No, it's cry, baby.
1:33.0	But on that note, we love Dano.
1:35.3	We love everything about Dano.
1:37.1	And Dano genuinely believes everything he's saying.
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