PMS 2.0 1516 - Team USA Advances to the WBC Finals, March Madness Brackets Revealed, Team USA Manager Mark DeRosa, Coach K, Sled Hockey Gold Medalist Jack Wallace, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

20:52Pat McAfee:Absolutely not. Jack Wallace with an absolute snipe. Yeah, he had three goals. It was at one point they thought he had four, but then Declan Farmer, greatest sled hockey player of all time, actually got his stick on it before it went in. But these boys were silky. I'm going to be honest. If you didn't watch, I think it would be hard for you to... Boom. Do you see that? Under the leg. Top dog. Under the sled. Where Mama hides the cookies. Yes, exactly. Yes, exactly. And I saw they were trying to kill the puck at the end. So that was dangle season. Oh, I bet. I mean, it was dangle season at the end.

21:27Pat McAfee:I saw, I don't remember which guy it was. Dude hit a spin move with this thing under his right stick, okay? Spins on this sled, turns under thing back to the other side. I'm like, whoa, we are slicing and dicing these people right now. It was getting a little physical. Oh, yeah. It was getting a little physical out there. Yeah, but the boys won their fifth straight Olympic gold medal. And hockey just, you know, pretty quickly here, I guess. just over the last couple weeks, certainly a month and a half or so. I didn't know this. Sorry, gumps. Football we know. Yeah. Football we know. We know that, no doubt about it.

22:07Pat McAfee:Soccer going forward, it's ours. Going to ride this into it. Cool jerseys came out. We know that. Sweet jerseys. Yeah, they're going to crush. We know that's our sport. I didn't expect hockey to be like this. I actually had to take, like a year ago, where I thought U.S. hockey was dead. because to become a great hockey player, the amount of work and commitment and everything it takes to get there, I think there'd be two main distractions. People making too much money doing too much other stuff right now, especially with how athletic you have to be to make it in hockey. You have to be an absolute dog.

22:36Pat McAfee:We're talking like 5 a.m. on ice, putting all the shit on, and their cardio is just like never ending. All of them have these massive asses. I mean, that's just coming from years of just skating and skating and traveling and moving and living in other places sometimes so you can be a part of a different league as opposed to going to your high school that doesn't have it. So the amount of commitment it takes to be a hockey player, I thought in our country, guys might get lacrosse. Sure. Lacrosse is starting to come up similar. You know, who knows, maybe soccer, maybe just something completely different from it all.

23:08Pat McAfee:But it turns out it feels like they have numbers up in sign-ups in hockey across the board, women, men, and I assume Paralympic sled hockey as well because we're going to be talking to Jack Wallace here in a little bit, I think in like an hour or so. And he obviously had a hat trick. He wins his third Olympic gold medal. He had an accident when he was a kid, and he was probably going to be, you know, who knows what his dreams were in sport at 10 years old. I think his entire life changed whenever a skiing incident takes place with a boat and he loses his leg or something like that. And he turns to this as an alternative.

23:42Pat McAfee:And what a dream, man. What it is. It's such a cool story to watch and to experience a ride alongside. And I talked about my classmate, Colin McGregor, who obviously, homerooms, alphabetical order, McGregor, McAfee. We were pretty close to each other, so I got to know him. I don't remember exactly what it was. Both his legs didn't work, though, but he had two crutches everywhere. Literally just crutched absolutely everywhere. And then one Monday he came in and he had like a medal on. And I was like, oh, we're wearing necklaces. That's sweet. What happened? He tells me about winning this. They call it sledge hockey.

24:14Pat McAfee:I didn't want to say it, Ms. Wrong. According to Wikipedia, it is sledge hockey. Sledge hockey or whatever. So he had just won a sledge hockey tournament over the weekend. I was so pumped for it. I remember being so pumped. And I guess Pittsburgh has a good background in it. Obviously, the North has it. And now we are five-time world champs in hockey. It's completely ours. So I'm pumped about watching the boys yesterday. Yeah, you mentioned it. I think the number was over 100 ,000 boys and girls signed up for youth hockey. This year is the most they've ever had. And Declan Farmer, we brought him up before.

24:41I think he set the record for most goals by someone or something along those lines. And some of the stories, too, of just adversity. One of the kids on the team was adopted from China. He was a born paraplegic, I believe, and he made it onto this team for Team USA. Like, just the stories of adversity are endless when it comes to this. And then for them to win gold and it being, you know, their fifth straight gold medal, it's like, yeah, we do own the ice now.

25:08Pat McAfee:Yeah, and they're sprinting. I mean, it is. Yeah, upper body for date. I can't wait. The questions we are going to ask to Jack Wallace, they will not be the normal questions to Jack Wallace, but I would like to know about what we are. How many dips can you do? I mean, this shit's outrageous. They're doing this to skate. They're doing 20 miles an hour, I look it up. Flying. 20 miles an hour. And then they're turning sideways, hitting board, and it's like, gee. Yeah, they're hitting each other, too. They're stomping each other. Yeah, it was a cool thing to watch, and hopefully the numbers will come back and it'll say a lot of people watch.

25:38Pat McAfee:And then speaking of a lot of people watching, We assume last night's number is going to be outrageous, just like the rest have been for the World Baseball Classic. Sorry about it. Sorry about it. Not really, but sorry about it. Team USA, shakes down the Dominican Republic. Now, Paul Skeen's came out and did Paul Skeen's stuff. We're talking one, two, three, first inning. How you doing? Greatest hitters in the history, huh? Hi. How do you like me now? Go ahead and move on. Showed up in a suit. Yeah. He showed up in a suit with an American flag stitched in the back. I mean, he was completely locked in.

26:13Pat McAfee:And as the entire internet was saying, yes, he's a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, say, yes, this is certainly the biggest game he's ever played in as a professional baseball player. And probably will be for some time unless Skeens can get some of the boys on the team. The defensive stalwart by the Team USA boys were absolutely outrageous for this man. And I think they understood that America was putting their ace out there. And I think the boys understood the narrative about them whenever they lost to Italy and almost didn't make it in. The boys wanted to put on a show. The boys wanted to put on a show.

26:42Pat McAfee:And let me tell you, they did. Let's go to the bottom of the third. Two outs, okay? Dominican Republic up one zip. That is right. Uh-oh. Aaron Judge. Big ol'. Big ol'. Heftig. Durable hose. Off an elbow injury, right? Yeah. Everybody's wondering if he's going to be able to throw. He threw that, what, 96 miles an hour or something like that, Ty? Yeah, I believe it was the hardest recorded throw he's had in three years. So, yeah, I mean, you know, for Judge especially, his defense was kind of the thing that showed out last night, not his offense, and it turned out, you know, crucial. And the guy that tagged him out right there, Gunnar Henderson.

27:22Pat McAfee:You ever heard of him? Well, learn the name. This dude's name is Gunnar, and he hits bombs. Big dong to tie it up against the Dominican Republic. A lot of people say he looks like me. Don't love that every white person kind of looks alike, but I can see it, and I take it as an honor. A man that doesn't look like me, a man that looks like the future of baseball, potentially. Tony Tony's boy. Roman Anthony hits a bomb. 2-1. Only solo shots, though. We did leave some ducks on a pond. Don't love that. That's baseball, though, I guess. Roman Anthony hits an absolute bomb. And then we talked about Aaron Judge with a huge hose.

28:02Pat McAfee:How about the mitt, kid? How about a 33-year-old captain laying his body on the line? Looking like LeBron James diving around in basketball court. Yeah, saw that. 40-plus years old. Year 23, going to do it. And then Aaron Judge says, you know what? I'm lucky and honored to be captain of this team USA. He says, I'm going to hit a ding-dong. How about it, boys? Aaron Judge is back. Captain America, cash in your home run bets. Yeah, right. Oh, man. Yeah, right, says Julio. Rodriguez. who pimps a home run robbery, which is one of the reasons why we love the Dominican Republic baseball team. But it was like we were watching a movie.

28:39Pat McAfee:Everything you wanted to see from a baseball game was happening right in front of your eyes. Aaron Judge with an insane outfield play. How about Bobby Witt with an infield snag to Bryce Harper? He's been doing that all day. This guy's a magician, Bobby Witt. The Royals seemingly got a lot of talent over there. Am I going to become a Kansas City Rules fan? Potentially. Let's go back to those of Pittsburgh men. Bednar comes out the renegade. Gets himself in a little bit of a situation, but ends up striking out the side. That's Bednar, baseball. And then let's go to the final pitch of the night. The final pitch of the tourney for the Dominican Republic.

29:14Pat McAfee:Mason Miller out of Pittsburgh. Strike!

29:20Pat McAfee:I don't want to hear it. No, don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Doesn't even matter. Because me, non-baseball guy, a couple years ago, whenever I heard there could be a fucking robot as the ump, Okay? I said, let's do the robot as the ump. I was told, no, it's the intricacies of baseball. Understand what the umpire strike zone is. I mean, you're obviously up for a lot of debate whenever you're that subjective. That's baseball, okay? You don't really get it. You don't know baseball. You grew up in baseball. We can't have robots make a decision. This is a human game. The umpire, in his eye, certainly matters more than any robot ever could.

29:51Pat McAfee:They don't really know the game, and the pitchers can know the strike zone too. They can start working. It's part of the game. That's part of the game. So in the eighth inning, when I see a fucking same pitch, and it's a strike. And then in the ninth inning, when I see the same two inches lower, they're saying, than any other pitch in the history of baseball. That's what they're saying. To ever be called a strike. And it's called a strike. It's like, hey, the umpire called it a strike. It's a strike. I don't know why. The people who are telling me that the intricacies of the umpire calling the strike or the ball are now telling me the Dominican Republic were up.

30:23Pat McAfee:jet passings on an entire war path say that's not good for baseball papa jet i thought we didn't want the robots if we want the robots let's do the robots but if we're doing umpire says umpire goes and i would certainly be pissed if i was the dominican republic boys because they were electrifying and fun to watch they left some ducks on the pond and some uh key moments and some key moments but obviously that last pitch is not how anybody would want to see that game end but umpire says a strike in my eyes and by your words baseball people that's fucking strike and that's how it's supposed to be yeah now i appreciate the fact that paul skeins plays for the pirates bednar is from pittsburgh mason miller's from pittsburgh pittsburgh basically beat the dominica republic last night a little help from the umps yeah i like that yeah where was he from people are pissed yeah let's not look into where this umpire is from people are not happy about this Even Jet Pass and Americans are pissed I'm watching this entire thing, which we got one.

31:27That's good.

31:27Pat McAfee:Exactly. Sucks for the Dominican Republic team. It does. They should be mad. But even American baseball seems to not be happy about what happened. Yeah, I think it was more so people just didn't want to see that good of a game end like that. You have this unbelievable NFL game and then a P.I. call or something that outside of what should impact the outcome kind of does. But like you said, like that, that is part of baseball. Like every umpire strike zone is a little bit different. And it's not like, yes, the, the tweets are coming out about how this was two inches lower than any other called strike in the history of the world baseball classic.

32:01But you know, Hey, that's good picture. Exactly. That's good.

32:06Pat McAfee:He snapped that shit off. Yeah. That's, that's good framing. That's just, that's all the above. And you know, so I think, yeah, I think that's why people are more so upset. Not that we won, but because that game was so good, you talked about how it felt like a movie, kind of just taking haymakers from the left, then the right, then the left, then the right, and then it ended like that, and it kind of just gave you the feeling like, man, for how good that was, it does kind of suck that it ends like this. But that's only if you're from the Dominican Republic. I was juiced up that we got that call.

32:36Yeah, it was incredible. And what did Albert Pujol say? What did the manager of the Dominican Republic say? Did he go to the podium and start bitching a moment like Americans? were, or did he just say, like, that's baseball, baby? Because I'm pretty sure he just said, that's baseball, baby.

32:52Pat McAfee:Alright, well, joining us now is the skipper for Team USA. A man who has led the boys now to the finals of the World Baseball Classic. Who they play against, we find out tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, former player for 100 years in MLB, host of a morning show on MLB Network, skipper for Team USA Baseball, who are in the finals to become world champions. on Tuesday night, Mark DeRosa. Yes, kid! Come on now, let's go. Hey, you did it. Hey. You did it. We kept proceeds, Pat. Yeah, I'm sure you did. Hey, you... We heard the noise. Hey, Ty was even killing you a little bit. It felt like... Oh, I'm well aware he was.

33:36I had to. It was the first thing I said this morning when I came in.

33:40Pat McAfee:Yeah, he said, hey, D-Road deserves some credit for some of the shit he did last night. So let's get to that, D-Road. It got loud. obviously uh you know that you heard that you had to have you're even being asked about it while you're in there i think you said i don't view an a team and a b team all these guys are my guys like i picked these guys these are all studs so i think you got most mad about the narrative that you put in shitty players when you're like we don't have any shitty players but you even you could admit that whenever you say like we're in and then you weren't in probably put you in a little bit of a bind there right if you i know you're past it you're in the finals right now, but did you learn anything from that whole process?

34:15Pat McAfee:How did the boys respond to you getting murdered by everybody? Yeah, well, they said welcome. This is our life. Aaron Judge, you should see. Yeah, okay, I like that. Yeah, I mean, I completely misspoke. There's no question about it. I put the cart before the horse going into the Italy game, and we got caught. They smacked us, but we moved past it. The guys came together. They rallied. We had a tough game against Canada, and then anyone who was in the building last night. I mean, man, I was fortunate to play in a lot of postseason games and be a part of the 2010 San Francisco Giants when they went to the World Series.

34:52Man, this had like World Series vibes. Honestly, I had the best seat in the house, and Dominicans rolling their lineup up, and I'm like, good God.

35:02Pat McAfee:Yeah, I was as well. There's stars everywhere. Yeah, I was as well, especially because Skeens is pitching. You know, so I'm hoping that— Be a badass or what? Okay, tell me about that. He shows up in a suit. I think both of his starts here all dialed in. A lot of people are saying this is the biggest game. Obviously, he's going to play in because he's a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. I think Pirates got better this offseason. They did. Okay, they got better this season. Maybe he's recruiting some of the boys, too, to opt out of their contracts, come play for the Pirates for, you know, league men, if they could possibly do that because that's what the Pirates would be able to do.

35:31Pat McAfee:But tell me about Paul Skeens. Tell me about Logan Webb. Tell me about these aces that have kind of shown up for you guys in a big way. We kind of felt like when we looked at the whole tournament, we needed to put our best guy in the semifinal game. And it kind of came down the road that Paul was going to get this start, and we kind of mapped it out, moving backwards towards that, because we felt like maybe the Dominican, the way it lined up, would be in that spot for us. Showed up in an electric blue suit, white collar, ready to go. you talk about robot umps, this guy's a robot he is process oriented, he wanted the moment you can tell, you can kind of tell in the first inning you're looking at Luis Severino, he threw a hell of a game but he was at like 99 miles per hour which is not the norm for him usually and you knew he kept just churning out his energy and eventually he was going to have to come out of the game Paul was dialed in from pitch one He wasn't overthrowing.

36:37He was making pitches. The pitch junior Caminero hit out. I mean, tip of the cap to him. That's a sweeper up and away. I don't know how he's able to get around that ball and hit it 400 feet. But, yeah, right man, right time. And then our bullpen was just surgical.

36:53Pat McAfee:Okay, so let's talk about that surgical bullpen because I think that's a lot of decisions being made by the dumbass DeRosa that everybody was saying. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Skip. I did give it to you a little bit after I lost. the expectations were so high but then I told these guys first thing when I came in this morning I said hey you know who deserves a hell of a lot of credit and a lot of flowers today is is DeRosa because what you did what like was that always the the pitching plan I mean put bringing Tyler Rodgers in there after Skeens and inducing the the double play from Soto but why is that a good move though Ty well yeah that's what I was just saying these guys I don't know how much of it you know with like Skeens arm slot you know and then you bring in Rodgers who's scraping his knuckles off the dirt, like obviously a tough adjustment to make.

37:36But was it always the plan then, you know, with Griffin Jackson, Bednar, to Whitlock, to Miller, which we've seen has been, you know, unbelievable. And how difficult is that really managing that when these teams obviously don't want you throwing their closer, you know, three times in however many days with however many pitches they're going to end up throwing? Yeah, you take that all into account, Ty. I honestly, the bigger question for me was we had talked about that the night before. Like we were up to like two, three in the morning kind of looking at this team and where we could find lanes for bullpen guys.

38:11The biggest the biggest problem is, is you have that three batter minimum, right? So if you run a lefty in that spot and he doesn't get Soto, he's got to stare Vlad down with the game on the line. And we just we like the matchup better in that. it wasn't perfect. To be completely honest with you, Tyler Rodgers is a killer, right? So we just wanted to give him a different look, but our fear was if Soto got on and the bases loaded when Vlad came up, who gave us the best option to get out right there? And we knew he would keep him in the park at least and keep him on the ground. So we looked at it a variety of ways, and it's funny, when I went out to take Paul Skeens out, you know, great job, big boy, and he walks off the mound and Will Smith turned to me and goes, who's coming in?

38:58And I said, Tyler Rogers. He goes, all right, I wasn't expecting him. You know, like, it kind of all came together. But yes, after we got out of that inning, we were going Jacks, Bednar, Whitlock, the Grim Reaper.

39:11Pat McAfee:Grim Reaper, Mason Miller. I mean, is that his name? Is that his name? The Grim Reaper? Might as well be. He's a yinzer, as you know, I assume at this point. Yeah, he's a, hey, this guy's outrageous. A lot to do about that strike call to end this thing. Your thoughts? I gave my take on baseball told me over the last four years as I've been kind of letting baseball know I don't know much about it. I'm sorry. I'm trying to learn about it. I can't this year. Sorry, go next year. Baseball people telling me the umpire strike center is one of the most important parts of baseball. Can't have a robot doing that.

39:46Pat McAfee:It's like, well, we'll do the challenge, but we can't have a robot calling balls and strikes, even though it's clear as day right there in front of our faces. and it's basically something that a robot could figure out at this stage of technology if we really wanted to implement it we can get a tennis ball down to a four or an eighth of a centimeter on what it is on the side it's like they could definitely figure out what a strike is or a ball is but working the strike zone is a big deal your thoughts on it all mason miller is a pitcher first of all uh and then your thoughts on how it ended and baseball's kind of relationship with the strike zone i guess is more so the conversation yeah i think i think it's like there's a bunch of narratives and parts that go into that one.

40:23Number one, Will Smith's one of the best framers in the game, right? Just pulling that through the zone right there. I think if you take the box off the screen, that ball's got a lot of plate. And then I have a lot of pride in, he was my old teammate 2009, I watched Albert Pujols win an MVP in St. Louis. The way he handled the post game, listen, I don't think the game was decided on that, on one call. There was a lot of great plays. Ultimately, we're going to get the ABS into the big leagues next year, and I'm sure it'll be a part of the next WBC, but I was happy as shit.

41:03Pat McAfee:Boy, it's nice to see one of those go your way, especially in that huge... Look at you. Yes! Where are we going? So if Mason can only go 25 pitches in that inning, we were getting someone warm after that at bat there's all these little rules and guidelines to the parent clubs that we're trying to honor and at the same time everyone's hearts invested in this like you saw it out in arizona these guys really care and they want to get it done they want to represent their country and win this thing and we knew the magnitude of that game i mean that place was on fire last night okay so let's talk about where the boys are now versus whenever we saw you guys live because obviously that was day one uh i think we're taking pictures we're getting uniforms we're having our first training maybe getting to know each other a little bit more even though the boys are obviously familiar with each other you know some guys hanging out i think you guys had uh somebody had you over to their house i forget who it was had a dinner for the boys i think you had another you guys won out maybe maybe for another dinner it was like basically your training camp was happening there for a couple days before you got right into it where are the boys at now and what did the scare of potentially not making it out of pool play do and how did you see the boys respond in that?

42:14Yeah, I think it completely refocused them. I mean, still, truth be told, I'd love to show up tomorrow night and have the bats just explode. We haven't been able to get the offense truly going the entire tournament, which would be nice. It's just a credit to our arms, man. Logan Webb was nasty. Our bullpen against Canada was nasty. And then to do what they did last night against that lineup was just absolutely heroic. But I'll say this, everyone's here. We're getting ready to go out for optional hitting and optional throwing and all that stuff and everyone showed on that bus these guys want it man they want it bad optional stuff the boys showing up to hell

42:53Pat McAfee:yeah i like it like i saw juan soto and i'm like he signed a 750 million dollar deal these guys are warming up to tease i looked up his deal and i look up aaron's deal i look up you know what skeins is projected to make and it's like i appreciate the fact that they're all you know they were pimping the shit out of hey i love that the minute you had did you guys enjoy it hate it because you guys have obviously We knew it was coming. Okay, good. Yeah, you guys watching the highlights of them celebrating? Because you guys went a little bit different way. Go ahead, Con, man. Yeah, Skip, I owe you an apology, too.

43:21I made a lot of jokes. I got my jokes off, too, so if I didn't say that, I'd feel bad. You tried to cancel me. No, no, no. No, they were trying to

43:28Pat McAfee:cancel your morning show. Yeah, we were trying to cancel you. It wasn't us. It wasn't us. We were just, we were broadcasting to you, baby, what was happening. Fair and unbiased, and also, when a joke's there, You can't not expect us to take a hack. I mean, come on. But thinking about this team, Roman Anthony, I'm a Red Sox fan, kind of knew of him, but now it feels like everybody knows him and he's completely exploded. He's only 21 years old. People are saying he could be the MVP of this entire tournament. What have you seen from him? What do you think about his kind of performance so far? And are we currently watching what will be the next 15 years of baseball with this guy?

44:07Because I forget who said it, but they basically said too, like, hey, Roman Anthony's going to carry this torch for the next five World Baseball Classics. Yeah, special relationship with him. We're paisans, right? They were rolling out a bunch of different food the other night in Houston, and me and him were the only ones that dove in on the cheese ravioli. So we looked at each other, made eye contact, and the Italians bailed us out, too.

44:30Pat McAfee:Yes, they did. Well, D-Ro, they kind of put us in a little bit of a spot, too, which is kind of Italian of them. Kind of Italian of them. Put us in a spot, brought us right out of it. That was very nice. Right out. Yeah, it was very nice. Grazie, grazie for the rapioli. But, yeah, Tony Tony's boy, Roman Anthony, seemingly a special talent. Yeah. Special. 21 years old to come in, handle himself the way he has, the quality of at-bat, the way the moment's not too big for him, starting every game, getting the rookie treatment on the bus. He's lugging this, like, thousand-pound speaker around with him every day.

45:04I want to get someone else to carry it for him because he's been carrying us. so uh yeah you're gonna have for the next 15 years a nice time in boston with this dude i'll tell you

45:15Pat McAfee:what not just in boston maybe five years uh next five world baseball classics with skipper d row it didn't look like that for a little bit it didn't look like that for a little bit it didn't we were on life support there for a second they were taking your name off the the outside of the door they were saying taking the parking spot hey i learned a valuable lesson though, right? What's that? It's quick. It can happen quick.

45:41Very fast. I'm from Jersey, man. Don't think I'll forget. I won't forget. Our goal is to win this thing. I'll take the high road for now.

45:50Pat McAfee:We know. We get it. You have to. Some of it warranted, though. You'll have to look at me and say that, but there was a lot. You'll have to do that. Two quick questions here. Obviously very important, Both of them go ahead, Tone. Yes, Skip, you talked about, you know, the arms and, you know, doing what their clubs want you to do. Bednar, Whitlock, and Miller have now gone in back-to-back games. Obviously, Scoobles back with the Tigers. Skeens is done. I believe Nolan McLean is supposed to start the final, if what I'm hearing is correct. And maybe a Boston Red Sox who got scratched yesterday could be coming to town as well.

46:25What's the situation like? What's the situation like with the arms and availability for the final? Yeah, Nolan's going to start the game for us. I saw that too, the Garrett crush. I tried to get Garrett on his team from jump, and I think we would have had him if he didn't work so hard for the Red Sox. He threw a ton of innings for them, and it just didn't make sense for him. We're going to have those conversations. I would say Whitlock's good to go. Bednar's had to grind the last two out of three nights. That one for me, I don't know. I don't know if the Renegade's going to be available for the finals.

47:01and Mason certainly wants the ball, but we shall see. This is what we do. We'll be on the phone after this workout with a bunch of teams kind of seeing where they're at.

47:10Pat McAfee:Okay, how many balls can this guy throw? Seven. Can he give me nine? Can I get the nine? Can I get nine pitches out of this guy? I'm looking for a 12 here. Beddard loves that. He loves that, though. He loves getting jams. He likes to work out. Yeah, I appreciate, though, that all this is happening behind the scenes while everybody's telling him he needs to be the furthest thing away from this team. He's like, there's billions of dollars here that are being talked about at all. And I think, you know, going forward, I know it's probably always going to be a thing because of all the information we have and all the sports science and all that shit, especially with how much money is being invested.

47:46Pat McAfee:MLB has to realize this WBC might be the best thing you guys have. This might be, you know, like the NHL, they had four nations drop in there and everybody's like, they figured out the All-Star game. They figured out, you guys are just doing your all-star game before the season. That's what you're doing. And it's not just the pros. It's minor league. It's everybody that you can basically get into it. Because this is MLB run, right? This is an all-star game before the season even starts. This is spectacular, what you guys have done here. So it's interesting about the limiting of the best players on earth potentially happening behind the scenes because they feel like they probably have to for the season and how much more baseball is still to be played.

48:27Pat McAfee:but it's like man i hope you guys understand how special this is this is this is good for baseball here d-row all of this has been very good for baseball you guys having success i think is very good for baseball in america brother no i appreciate that it's funny i was looking at the lineup card last night before we walked out and just looking at like that's the greatest collection of talent you'll ever see on a field at one time trying trying to win yeah getting after it. I think eventually, Pat, yeah, this thing gets moved to the middle of the season, and you're getting guys at their best, right?

49:01Like, all arms would be interesting. All the guys want to do it. And for whatever reason, placing their career, whether they've been paid or not paid, or agents, or clubs, I just think it gets tough for some guys to make the decision to be willing to put your heart in it. Because once you get in the room, it becomes the most important thing to you and it's hard to turn it off so yeah I think for for the betterment of the health of the players and the growth of the game at some point this needs to be

49:34Pat McAfee:go to the middle of the season last note here last question because it all ties to this guy the guy who committed to this your first call the captain go ahead D-Bud yeah you talked about all that talent in the lineups even for a casual like me I expected bombs I expected to shoot out even with the great pitchers on the mound starting with schemes. But Judge's defense, and specifically that throw when he threw out Tatis at third, I feel like that kind of changed the game. I feel like Tatis held up at second later on. Wells held up at third at a point where he could have scored. What was that play like in the building?

50:06It was unbelievable, man. We actually saw him kind of – he was slowing down around second base and kind of like almost baiting him that he was going to hold up. And as soon as he went, Judge's got an absolute cannon. it. I mean, so an aggressive base running played by Tatis. That's how he plays the game. I'm glad he tried it. Judge has been on it. Ultimate leader of men. This guy is a monster, a monster to be around. Better dude off the field, deals with all the noise and all the like pressure that's put on him with with grace and class and uh yeah the i mean j-rod doesn't rob that homer yeah yeah he

50:49Pat McAfee:has one of the greatest nights in the history of sport yeah yeah and i hit home run plus 175 or something like that aaron judge you know if this isn't a robbed home run he's uh he's been fun to watch throughout this entirety getting a chance to chat with him obviously very cool seems like the consummate pro sounds like you think the same thing and uh he does have an aura around how large he is. Just like you do. You have a great energy. I think that's why they picked you to kind of do what you're doing right now. It got hot in the kitchen for a bit, but you stood in there. And guess what? We might have some chicken bomb on the other side.

51:23Pat McAfee:We might have something good. You brought in... I brought a little bit of it upon myself. You're 100 % right. No question about it. A little bit. A little bit.

51:37They went a little hard in the paint.

51:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, they saw an opportunity. A little bit. You disrespected them a little bit. The Mikuya coming in. Mikuya coming in. What was the thought behind this? Because I know you had Phelps in during training camp. I think you had Jack Hughes and the boys send you messages after the Olympics going in to Team USA Baseball. I think you've been trying to continue to showcase America to the boys. Is that kind of the goal of the initiative here? Or what is it about your angle of how the team approaches this versus everybody else maybe? I mean, I think for me, like my first conversation with with skeins was, you know, why are you doing this?

52:16Why are you so gung ho to do this? And he said, I want to do this for every service man and woman that protects our freedom. Right. I think I think getting in the room with these guys, it's such a blessing because it's just a collection of talent and you get a chance to hang out and see how to go about it and work. But I think you've got to honor what's on the front. Right. The people that protect our freedom. that's why we want to represent the United States of America um 9-11 I grew up in New Jersey I grew up playing wiffle ball and literally the backdrop to my wiffle ball games was the Twin Towers and when those fell that that impacted me in a massive way um and I you know I felt like Robert O 'Neill coming in and kind of addressing that situation kind of get these guys on track about why we're doing certain things.

53:05So just, you know, different messaging. Wasn't trying to go for any angle. Just kind of honor the servicemen and women that protect and allow us to play the kids' game.

53:15Pat McAfee:Now, I know you guys are called managers and ours are called coaches. Okay, I still don't fucking get it. Like, okay, so you're managing is what I should say, I guess? Is that what you're doing? Coaching is how we speak. Coaches do the same thing, you know, try to figure out different ways to relay a message. You're trying to get perspective in for what you're playing for and what this could be and what this actually means. And that's your style of motivation, brother. You're doing a lot of managing, or as we like to call it in the rest of the world, coaching. And we appreciate the hell out of you doing that, getting the boys focused.

53:41Pat McAfee:We're in the finals now. Hey, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Go get it. Go. Come on, Skip. Thanks for having me. All right. And we don't know how long it's going to last. That's me, Andrew. How's that? Thank you, brother. Love you, Skip. It's quick. It's quick. It's quick. Yeah. It's quick. Back of those chips. Who will we play? Venezuela or Italy? Venezuela favored. Minus 190 money line over Italy. Plus 155. That'll be tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern on FS1. Why wasn't this on Fox last night? I don't know. That's a great question. No, no. It was a huge new Hell's Kitchen. No. I think it was Mormon Wives or something.

54:21Pat McAfee:Was it? The Secret Lies of Mormon Wives? New season is out. I don't know. Whoever directed it sucked. The camera cut? The camera cut. It was awful. Like, obviously, the game was incredible. The environment was incredible. But, like, you're winding up a pitch and you're cutting. I'm like, it was weird. So this is what I think about golf, too. I think they figured it out. Yes. Like, you know, like when Liv was coming in and they're like, we're going to broadcast it differently. It's like, hey, golf's figured out. We need the little tracker thing. We need it behind it. I want to see the swing. I want to know how far it is.

54:56Pat McAfee:I want to know what club they're using. I want to know what shot they're having. Leaderboard. The leaderboard, yeah. This is golf. We have it figured out. You could do it in a different style of music if you want to. Baseball feels like it's pretty figured out. Certainly. And if you have a couple extra shots, I guess like picking and choosing when you drop those in. Like if you have a handheld 4K or whatever down on the field. Yes. That is like an added shot that's down first baseline. You've got to pick and choose when you get those in there. But it can't be during the action. No. Especially if it is the best pitcher on earth taking on some of the best hitters on earth.

55:28Pat McAfee:Like there is, I agree, there was a lot of decisions being made. And now granted, we don't know what's available. Maybe something drops too that they don't know. Maybe the camera drops off that they have to cut to another one. That shit will happen to us where something will drop out and we have to go to something else. So maybe there's that type of shit going on. We have no idea. But there was a lot of stuff that I'm like, that's a tough decision to make right there. Because you know somebody has to make that decision. It's like, what did you think you were going to do? Which is always, you know, in the moment, I guess a little difficult.

55:54Pat McAfee:Foxy has to do it all day, every day. Fox has to do it like, you know, three hours a day. Keep the main thing the main thing. Well, and that's the – I mean, they were missing pitches on like one, two counts where it would go back. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, what do we do? You know, whatever you're talking about was not more important than showing, you know, this pitch. Like, it just – We know it's not easy. Exactly. We know there's a lot of stuff that goes into it. But, like, if you capture it, you got it. Right. That's the main thing. So kind of easy. Clean it up by tomorrow. Yeah, because then you can tighten the shit up later.

56:25Pat McAfee:You know what I mean? And yeah, we need to make sure we have it on frame. Just show the game, damn it. It's not rocket science. Stop running the replay while the guy's winding up the bench. So I think they were trying to keep action during down times. Like, hey, here's something awesome that just happened as we wait for something awesome. I think they were trying to get the ADHD people. And in doing so, I missed the windup. The guy did the thing. They pissed the ADHD people off. Yeah, exactly. I didn't see it. Power 2 will be on the other side. We got A.J. Hawk in. Coach K. What? Krzyzewskiville is coming to town.

57:00Pat McAfee:Hell yeah. See you then.

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58:06Pat McAfee:What? That's right, it's 316. They shout stone cold Steve Olson to the main. Inspired all of us. They kicked somebody's ass. What? Sports are incredible. We're lucky to talk about all of them. We did the top five last hour. talked to Team USA's Skip, Mark DeRosa. That was a great conversation. Had a good time there, obviously, fresh off a massive win over the Dominican Republic last night as the Team USA baseball heads into the world championship. Who will they play? We find out tonight when Venezuela takes on Italy at 8 p.m. on Fox Sports 1. Vinny Pasquantino, who, since our conversation, has signed a deal with Starbucks.

58:42Pat McAfee:Yeah, smart. Yeah, absolutely. He is a man who's obviously leading Team Italia in a legendary run here. I don't think a lot of people expect it. And then Salvador Perez and the Venezuelans are favored in this highly exciting matchup. I don't know who's pitching for who. Aaron Nola for Team Italy. He went five scoreless against Mexico. Plays for the Phillies. Good ball player. Okay, and who's pitching for Venezuela? Was it Keimer? Keiter Montero. Yeah, Keiter Montero. He plays for the Tigers. He has been up in the bigs a little bit, but he's currently in AAA for the Tigers. That's the Talks at the Table.

59:19Pat McAfee:I have Boss Conner and Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer. Done. Cowboys AP Tony's here. Nine-year NFL vet. Mm-hmm. Wearing a clean four-to-five figure Sunday red hoodie. Darius J. Butler is here. Thank you, man. Is that the newest? That's got to be the newest relief. It is a pretty recent release, yeah. It is. Gold. Have you seen that? Wait, what? What's it saying? Oh. Oh. I mean, feel that. Is that like Lulu? No, it's not as soft as Lulu. It's close, though. That's good, man. But put a little more color on what you're talking about as far as the pitchers. I think Venezuela probably has a better bullpen.

59:56I would have to probably give that ish. Maybe a better lineup as well. What do you think? Oh, yeah, I think that would be 100 % accurate. I think it sounds like someone who's been doing their research.

1:00:05Pat McAfee:Oh, it's a big one tonight. Hello, this is baseball's Darius J. Butler. D-Bats joining us live. D-Bats, we're talking. D-Bat joining us live from Annatica, Ohio. He's a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, and a knower of all things wrestling, we found out this morning, A.J. Hawk. Yeah, Hawk. Hawker, what up, dude? What's going on? Actually, D-Bat, I have some of my own Sunday Red that came in over the weekend, so I wish I would have worn it today. What? I will make sure to wear it sometime this week. I didn't know we're all getting influenced in the golf's affliction stuff.

1:00:38Pat McAfee:I didn't know. Is that what we're doing? Do not compare Tiger Woods to Affliction. You're not. That's the same thing. That's the same business model. Not, you know. And first of all. Who was the owner of Affliction? It better be the greatest MMA guy of all time. It kind of was, yeah. It was, dude. But what I'm saying is people are paying a lot of money for those T-shirts. Yeah, because he did a lot for us. Paying more than a lot. Affliction is what I'm talking about. Oh. Yeah, exactly. See, it's a good business comparison. but I would say I will support Sun Day Red to support Tiger. I just wish Tiger wouldn't be trying to charge me a Toyota Camry for a hoodie and sweatpants.

1:01:17It's not that expensive compared to the other.

1:01:20Pat McAfee:He's trying to price me on. He's trying to price me on. And he did. So Fleetwood was rocking the other day. He wouldn't wear anything, I think. He's kind of a free agent right now. That's what they said. Him and Nike had a 10-year deal. It came time to come time. He had a great year last year. I'm thinking this. They said we're thinking that. No deal with Strzok. Now he's wearing, what do they call him, Gumpy? What are they calling Tommy Fleetwood right now? The king of the clubhouse? Yeah, that was Pro Shop. Pro Shop. Pro Shop, yeah. He's in the Pro Shop, but also in the Clubhouse. He's going in there.

1:01:46Pat McAfee:He's buying the shit from the Pro Shop, then walking to the first tee and trying to win your tournament. Yeah. Dog methodical. Putting a shirt on. Yeah, I feel you. That's awesome. Putting it on, tucking it in. Pretty cool. Walking to the first tee. I'm going to try to win this tournament. What's the course record here? That is literally what he's doing. A lot of us have had to do that because you're not prepared to golf at the place you're golfing at. asshole, you cannot wear a tank top here. So you have to go to the pro shop. You put one of their shirts on. They're always got a cool logo on the side.

1:02:11Pat McAfee:And then you head to the first tee. That's what he's been doing in the actual PGA. Love everything about it. AJ, we did a top five in the first hour. Obviously, Team USA's sled hockey team winning the gold and sweeping the triple crown of Olympic hockey was on there. Obviously, Team USA baseball was on there. We left out something, though, AJ. I don't know if you saw the omission that we had. It was a glaring one, I think, in the sports world. I'm not sure. What is the omission? Please tell me. I don't know if you watch college baseball. I'll tell you what. I haven't. It seems like something I need to get into.

1:02:42Pat McAfee:Yes. This guy's name is Stone Lawless. And then he's – Yep. This guy. Stone. Hit the ball. Can you hit play on this, please? Guy who's hitting the ball, his name is – Stone Lawless. And he's – it's the ninth. Yeah. Yeah. This is the win the game. Top of the ninth. Obviously, Georgia will get a chance to respond. This is in Athens. Freshman. Cole Johnson. Rob's the homer of Stonehouse right in his face. Absolutely unbelievable stuff. Post the point, too. I'm him. I'm him. Look, me. Me. In their world. In the ninth inning. Wow. Thinking he's winning the game. Think about how he's traveling back to Rocky Top, Tennessee.

1:03:28Pat McAfee:I just hit a dong in the ninth to beat the dogs. Hell yeah. He's go dogs. I'm go long, bitch. Bombs away. In the ninth inning. I saw the Dominican Republic doing this the other day. Let me spike this bat as hard as I possibly can. Let me tell the boys. Yeah, yeah, everything I say, I'm bot. And then before you can even make it to first base, fucking freshmen's out there robbing your ass. Baseball can get you. Easy come, easy go. I did not know that was the case with this sport. Oh, yeah, without a doubt. And, you know, unfortunately, that is probably the kind of thing that follows you for a while.

1:03:59You know, especially in the SEC, I'm assuming. Stone Lawless. Yeah, Stone Lawless is going to be getting mocked at quite a couple SEC ballparks. But, hey, that's the risk you run. You hit it right on the screws and you think you got enough, and then you kind of just got to swallow it and eat it as the entire dugout empties out and runs out to the warning track to celebrate.

1:04:18Pat McAfee:Hey, a lot of good dogs down there too, it looked like. There's a lot of barking at Stone Lawless. AJ, don't you think we had to have this in the top five? That was what I was meaning about an obvious omission. Anytime Stone Lawless is doing stuff like this, I mean, we got to talk about it. I mean, could he even see this ball? I mean, this is an unbelievable catch. How many times, if you did this 10 times, how many times will he be robbing this thing? Cole Johnson every time. This is what makes the whole thing. That makes the whole thing right there. Dude, just think about how pumped he was, man.

1:04:43Pat McAfee:You're chasing that. Hey, at least he got a chance to feel the dragon. You know, people are saying they chase the dragon, chase the dragon. They're chasing that feeling right there. He at least got to experience it for a couple moments there. We saw him experience it. I haven't seen many bat spikes. I've seen a ton of bat flips. I haven't seen the bat spike. Good time, yeah. That's a stone thing. I'll tell you what. Boom, lawless. Have you heard the commentator call this thing? No. Oh, buddy. Go, Dawgs, on the call. Well hit. This one to left field. This one going back at the wall. D-made the team.

1:05:18Oh, he caught it. Oh, my gosh.

1:05:23Oh, sports, man. It's Cole Johnson. Cole Johnson at the wall.

1:05:29Pat McAfee:These go, Dawgs, for sure. college sports are incredible and obviously as we're about to dive into mat madness with college wrestling and then obviously march madness for college hoops the entire world is about to pay attention to what's going on at the universities across the country over 360 teams trying to get into this tournament and we as non-knowers of ball are trying to bring somebody in who knows ball to maybe make us better this march madness ladies and gentlemen we are incredibly lucky to say that the guy who has the most wins in the history of college basketball will be joining us throughout starting right now five-time national champion former head coach of team usa basketball winning a hundred gold medals he would have won 200 if he kept going legend of sports and obviously goat of college hoops coach you how are you should do my you should do my introductions all the time you fabricate so many things and people think they're true well that's i don't know if anybody will buy the 100 gold medals but i think it would be true if you were to live long enough which fuck you might especially with how you know good you look at this particular age if you were to coach for a hundred of these things you would win that which is what i was trying to imply i think everybody gets that but you are certainly worthy of an incredible introduction so we appreciate you joining us coach let's talk about the brackets obviously set yesterday you've been a thousand of these things you were the coach at duke from 1980 to 2022 42 years james holy shit 42 years creating an institution obviously creating your own ville down there this day after the brackets are revealed is how everybody views like actual college basketball season beginning how do you think these coaches are viewing this how would you view this day and kind of what's on task for these coaches across the country yeah well it's the most exciting three weeks of uh i think the sports season because it takes over the entire country you You know, you start out every, there were 360 schools that played Division I basketball.

1:07:29And all of them have an opportunity to get into the tournament with all the conference tournaments. So it really goes throughout the country, all the communities. And then that thing we put out many decades ago called the bracket. The bracket has become incredible. incredible even for non-basketball fans those people who like to bet on things yeah the bracket

1:07:54Pat McAfee:is a hell of an addictive thing not me obviously coach but people that are very similar to me and that i know all around me and let's talk about why the bracket has become so special because obviously your school duke has been at the top everybody is expected i assume since 1991 when you won your first one everybody started to expect you guys to kind of be in there every single year after that is that accurate i uh especially our fans yeah uh the other our opposing fans uh expected it but didn't like it so yeah understandable but that was kind of the expectation nationally too i think i grew up in pittsburgh didn't call the college basketball much pit panthers got dirty there for a little bit but everybody knew duke was going to be good so you have you guys that are always going to be in it and then march madness made everybody believe that some school i've never heard of could potentially go on a run and beat duke beat duke that was kind of what the magic is now they're saying bigger spreads than ever before uh from the sports books for these teams what are your thoughts on kind of where we stand about the higher seeds and the lower seeds and what used to be and maybe what is now coach yeah well i think pat you start first of all saying but some people want the tournament expanded more teams i think that would be a huge mistake uh really right now uh the top four conferences the power four of the 37 at-large bids that you could get, those four have 31 of them.

1:09:21You know, it's become those conferences. And there's the haves and the have-nots. There are more have-nots, but the haves, there are more haves. In other words, there are more good teams that can win this tournament. But it's dominated by those four conferences.

1:09:44Pat McAfee:They're saying the ACC maybe not in any. Down here. Maybe not the ACC of old. Yeah. Now, Duke's got a hell of a chance, for Christ's sake. Favorite. You know, especially if we get our two injured guys back. But, you know, a really cool thing about the tournament in the top four seeds, there's 16 of them. Nine of them come from the Big Ten and the Big 12. And what they've done, they're spread out over the four regions. I'm using my hands. I didn't use my hands. And still, I started watching your show. Okay, we'll go for you. I'm pretty handsy. Now you just got to do all this crap. Yeah, I get it.

1:10:37The one thing I found hard to believe, you know, the Big East only got three teams in, which is probably right. But their top two teams are in the same region, Connecticut and St. John's. That never happens, you know, like the Big Ten has five, but they're spread out. the Big 12 has four one in each of the regions so I thought that was really not a good thing to do for the Big East and I was a little bit surprised St. John's being a five seed with what they've done lately and they won the regular season Big East and also the tournament

1:11:23Pat McAfee:Back to back years he's been able to accomplish that I believe first time ever win by 20 in the Big East Championship game over UConn. Certainly has us all wondering about Dan Hurley and his, what's going on up there? Well, maybe Patino's got the boys buzzing. Now, let's talk about the regions. Last question from me before the boys all have some. Mostly going to be asking questions probably for their own gambling, just so you have a little bit of a heads up. Yeah, you're going to help out. We appreciate your service there. Don't blame it on me when you lose. We will. Yeah, we will. You're not going to give me credit when you win.

1:11:55Pat McAfee:No, we will. We will celebrate. I don't know. We'll make Krzyzewskiville in here, you know, if we get some heaters. But, yeah, you will certainly hear the blame if it doesn't work. You guys can do that. You guys take that to a good level. Thank you. Thank you. I think we're pretty good at it as well. They're saying the East region, though. This is a tough. I don't know. I don't want to get in the grand scheme of, like, toughest of all time because I feel like everybody does that. But it feels like the big takeaway from last night. East region, very, very, very, very difficult. Now, obviously, number one overall seat is in that region.

1:12:26Pat McAfee:So it's obviously going to be slanted a little bit better because number one overall seeds in there. What do you see from the East region? And do you think the conversation is right about how heavy it is seemingly against all the other regions? You know what it's heavy in is coaches that have won national championships. You have Bill Self, one of the best ever at Kansas. Rick Pitino, another one. Tom Izzo and Danny Hurley. I mean, you have four national championship winners. So the coaching in that, not that the coaching in the regions is bad, but come on. You have four programs that are accustomed to doing great things in the NCAA tournament.

1:13:11That's the very first thing that hits me. and in the round of 32 that St. John's and Kansas are going to play one another. There's some great games throughout the tournament. I think it's a lot more wide open than it has been the last couple years. But the East, I would like to have watched Danny Hurley's practice the last couple days after they've lost. Danny and I are really good friends. And, you know, them going down by 20 to St. John's and the Big East Championship, you know they're going to be ready. They're going to be ready. Same thing with Izzo. Tom's the creme de la creme of coaching.

1:14:01And they got, you know, there are a bunch of teams in this region that have a chance to win. I'm worried about our guys.

1:14:10Pat McAfee:Yeah, I see that with every highlight that's passing. It seems like you are watching these highlights realizing, wait a minute, these teams are real players out here. They are. And, you know, Duke and Michigan State had a hell of a game early in the year. And we won, but it was a fist fight. And they have – Tom is – you know, they call him Mr. March because how many times he's been in the tournament and has gone to the Final Four. he and I are good friends. I said, you know, what you want to be called though is Mr. April because you see, you see, you see, you see, you see, you see, you see coach is, Oh, you know, yeah.

1:14:53Pat McAfee:Mr. March is cute. Okay. January, February is that's very, very cute. People around me, they say, Hey, coach K feels like you're well, it's so knocked us out one year where we could have been a Mr. Mr. April again in one of my really good teams. One of them. I just think there's an incredible game. And one of my former players, Johnny Dawkins, has taken his University of Central Florida team there. And they play UConn first. And they'll have a shot. The Big 12 overall are top-heavy. I think three of the top seven ranked teams are from the Big 12. You have Houston and Iowa State being two seeds in other regions.

1:15:45Wow. There are more teams this year that can make the Final Four, I think. Last year, all the top number one seeds, they were just a step ahead of everyone. That's not the case. You know, there's no number one seed that is that much ahead of the teams in their region.

1:16:06Pat McAfee:We'd love to hear that. The overall number one seed led by somebody you know. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Coach John Shire, who Pat is speaking of, what makes him so special? We hear stories about him as a player and what he's like, his mentality, the culture he has cultivated there after your long tenure. What makes him special and what makes you think that this guy can actually lead this team and make a run and win it all? you know he he has uh such a feel for the game you know i i've known him we recruited him when he was 17 and he was a national champion for me and uh and it's been on my staff for eight years and uh he was ready you know uh he's got such a good feel for the game and he was a great player so you know he can not only teach his great players that but he can feel what they feel You know, that's why he's done such a great job with Cam Boozer last year with Cooper Flagg and Knipple.

1:17:03He relates and he's still a young guy. He relates so well to these guys. He's and he's been his own man. You know, I've loved what he's done. And I think he's navigated these last four years in NIL and transfer portal much better than I would have ever been able to to to do it. But he's current, and he's done a lot with the NBA. He's followed the NBA. So his system incorporates college and NBA. And I think that's one of the reasons the guys are so well prepared for the NBA.

1:17:42Pat McAfee:Well, that's kind of like what's happening in college ball as well. You're seeing a lot of NFL guys end up ending college because it's kind of becoming one in the same. It's kind of professional sports at this point. Now, on that note, with professional sports happening, in our sport of football, interesting situations happen. In basketball, it's seemingly happening as well across the country. Best guy in sports may be Darren Peterson out there at Kansas. It is a load management situation happening in college, and there's other storylines going on. People getting paid millions. D-Butt has a question for you, Coach.

1:18:11Yeah, Coach, you're probably no better person to ask. You've coached some of the best players on both levels, collegiate and NBA. I see the Mamba logo right there, rest in peace. But do you have any specific stories that stand out when it comes to like managing egos of these players and these rosters, these great rosters, especially like the USA team? We're watching the WC right now with the baseball. Any specific stories that stand out over your tenure when it comes to managing these egos and the rosters that come together? Well, I love managing egos if it's matched by the same level of talent.

1:18:44Pat McAfee:Be who you can afford to be. managing egos when it's somebody who doesn't have that talent is, well, then you get rid of them. You know, you shouldn't have them. But no, with the U.S. teams, I coached the U.S. teams for 11 years. And I told them every, when we started off every team, bring your egos in. I don't believe in leave your egos at the door. That's such BS. I want you to be who you are. And by the way, Kobe Bryant, LeBron, They would have brought their damn egos in. But I would always tell them, I said, if you can all put your egos under one ego umbrella, call it USA, we'll kick everyone's ass.

1:19:30We'll rule the world. And they did that. They did that. A lot of the great players are not coached. They're used. and uh when you the great player wants to get better the great player wants to be coached that's what i found and and when you put a bunch of them together they help each other you know kobe helped all those guys learn how to prepare better lebron would sit with jason kidd at every meeting and shoot with him every night so he could learn more about his intellect and you know he's a great passer but jay kidd's one of the greatest of all time so talent makes talent better and especially if you know look at the end of the day i would i would say you're going to be asked only one question playing for us uh did you win if if you answer that by saying well i was the leading score then you're a loser you know because you've lost and and so just win and all those damn guys wanted to win uh i i love them you know i i loved coaching you know that level of talent

1:20:44Pat McAfee:yeah and ego yeah we love i love that you're this is probably why you are who you are bill belichick's kind of the same way he's a do your job guy but also randy b randy hey you do we want you to celebrate we want you to do the entire thing i appreciate how much you appreciate the elite talent that you have is that how you have always coached you teach or did you coach team usa differently than you coach uh duke for instance and i think i read today did you you played for bob knight at west point and yeah and then you coach and then you coach with him i assume are you a disciple with him a little bit and uh uh he allowed me to do some things internationally with him and uh you know the thing i weren't i've learned a lot from coach knight uh one how to take charges to die for loose balls and play the game and play the game hard.

1:21:36He was brilliant. He's a genius. And the number one thing I learned from him was preparation. He would always say, you know, any, any knucklehead wants to win, you know, unless you're a complete idiot. And, but not everyone wants to have the will to prepare to win. And he would say the will to prepare to win is more important than the will to win. And I learned that when I was 18 years old from him. And I've been an anal preparer my whole life. And Pat, the thing I wanted to do was combine having the will to prepare and the will to win. And what I would say that would make us worthy of winning.

1:22:20If we could do those things, doesn't mean the other guy's not worthy of winning. but every time we went on the court, I wanted to coach a team that was worthy of winning.

1:22:30Pat McAfee:Is that how you treated Duke? Is that the same messaging you had? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and that means every game is a big game. People say, do you prepare differently for these tournament games? If you did, why the hell didn't you prepare differently during the regular season? Are you an idiot? Basically, you get into a way of doing things it's called habits habits i hated hawk with being on the packers because i'm a bears fan you guys had great habits and no don't shake your head you guys beat our ass so many times it was unbelievable i i hated you with respect aj still has those habits though he's carried them for the rest of his life like legitimately Yeah.

1:23:20No, but the thing is, you want your team not to be doing a bunch of new things going into the tournament. You want them doing the things they've done well, even and make sure they're fresh. The healthier you are, the fresher you are, then your habits are done even better. But, you know, the main habit to have is the habit to win and prepare to win. And I thought throughout my career we were pretty consistent with that.

1:23:49Pat McAfee:Yeah, I love the work happening when nobody's watching. Everybody hates Duke from the outside in, but they have no idea the grind that's taking place behind the scenes. I had no idea it was a Bob Knight-type red-led affair. I didn't know that the boys down there bopping the wood. They're still bopping the wood. Hey, Shire had all five bopped the wood. You saw them bopping wood, Coach. I did. They hit the slap on the floor. Slap in the wood. Love it. Slap in the wood. Bop in the wood. Got it. We like when all – Dang. You football guys, you got to start – it's not the wood. It's the damn floor, all right?

1:24:22Pat McAfee:No, they're bopping wood, Coach. So many football and baseball guys on the show. Let's get educated about what the hell is going on right now. Open up your minds for Christ's sake. Come on, right? I want to let you know, Coach, I go to a basketball game. I'm sitting front row. Where am I at? The hardwood. On the wood. I'm on the wood. Okay, so that's all I know, Coach. Any of these other things you would like to teach me to not sound like a dumbass, I would appreciate it. Yeah, no, but you were a punter, so there's a limited amount of stuff that you know.

1:24:57Pat McAfee:I want to let you know. No, but you were a damn good punter. Thank you. Thank you, Coach. You were good. You should see, I got kind of a little bit of a wet. Oh, yeah. No, let's not. This isn't fantasy now. Shoot one, Pat. Make one for him. Let's talk about real life things. How about this one? Yaga. That was full size. Predictable. That's predictable. Oh! Fuck! Needed to make that one. That was the one. The ball. Know your limits, all right? Only layups and offensive rebound shots. And bopping wood, Coach. And bopping wood on that defensive side. I'm going to be a menace down there, Coach. All right, let's talk about something other than that.

1:25:46Pat McAfee:Ty has a question for you, Coach. Yeah, Coach, I'm assuming you're of the mind of, hey, there are no excuses whatsoever. But when it comes to the tournament, how many of the non-basketball factors actually impact you? We heard Coach Cal saying how he's not, I don't want to say not happy, but they have to travel from Arkansas to Portland. If they advance, they have to go back to Arkansas and then fly back to the West Coast. Some of these games are tipping off at 9.50 or 10.08 or on the flip side, super early. Over your career coaching, did that type of stuff impact any of the games in maybe years where you got upset or you didn't play as well as you anticipated playing?

1:26:26Well, everything that you said is true. It's a factor. the thing that you have to say is no excuse you know uh you know that's been one of our standards my whole career my whole life like when I graduated from West Point that was a thing yeah there are no excuses get the damn job done uh a mantra uh failure is never our destination and I don't want to hear any bullshit excuses. And so don't talk about those things. Talk about, this is what we have. This is our road. This is the road we're going to be on. But does it have an impact? Yeah, it has an impact. You're playing that 950 game and you're getting back to the hotel at 130 in the morning.

1:27:14And then you got to play maybe an afternoon game a day and a half later. The travel thing that John mentioned, I think is a very important factor. Now, the higher the seed you are, the less you are put in those situations. And so even though Arkansas, I think is terrific, I think they're a number five seed. And so they're probably moved around a little bit more, but it has an impact because you want your guys fresh. You want your guys guys fresh and uh playing those games that late and three different uh time zones to uh to travel in you know if you're going to go out west or come out east and you're the opposite of that team the team that's doing that you should stay if you advance in that in that area you know you shouldn't be going back back and forth coach i got a test in the morning though coach i got a

1:28:16Pat McAfee:I got a big-time exam in the morning, Coach, you know? Yeah, they don't have exams right now. I would have never known that. With NIL and the house settlement, their exams are not as high on the list of things. Okay, I'd like to know that, by the way. Shout out to these universities making things happen for the boys and for the ladies. Okay, let's go ahead and continue to do that. All right, Coach, you were able to accomplish something. one time that is certainly potentially being hunted right now go ahead tone yeah coach you went back to back 91 92 the florida gators have a chance to do that this season they are a one seed again they're not the favorites dukes the favorites but they are in the top four as far as favorites go what is the the hardest thing about going back to back and do you think the gators have a chance to do it this year well good point and they do have a chance uh their todd is golden is a hell of a coach and uh one of the key things is they have their four big players the four big guys back from last year those guys have been on this run before and their two guards uh uh fland and xavier and lee early in the year were learning to be on that at that level they now know being at that level.

1:29:39The thing is, when we did that in 91 and 92, after we won in 91, people said, you're defending your championship. And I had a meeting with my guys in April that year, right after we won it. I brought the trophy in. I said, look, this isn't going away. We don't have to defend a damn thing. What we have to do is pursue. Let's pursue the next one. And I think this Florida team is pursuing right now. They got knocked out by Vandy, but until they lost this last game, they were probably the hottest team in the country. And with those four big guys, man, they rebound the hell out of the ball. Oh, yeah.

1:30:22Yeah, their last two games that I've watched, they couldn't hit. They could not knock down an outside shot. But they definitely have a shot to do it. And the thing, if they advanced all the way, the one and two, they're going to play really another number one seed who's the number two, and that's Houston, who, you know, Kelvin Sampson has done an incredible job there. And it would be a man's game. I see more of those games throughout the tournament than I did last year. I think this has a chance to be just a great, great tournament. It's going to be great for us.

1:31:04Pat McAfee:You know why? You know why it's going to be great for us? Because you're going to be on here teaching us about what the hell we need to be looking at. That was really nice of you to say that. You're making our life better, buddy. No, I didn't know if I would be accepted by you. Mom, let me know. You weren't there immediately. To feel the warmth that you guys are exhibiting right now is terrific. It feels like we got, with arms wide open. AJ's got his arms open too there. You just can't see because it's out there. You see it? The photograph? Yeah, that's what we're doing right now, Coach. We're very thankful that you're joining us.

1:31:44Pat McAfee:You've been awesome here thus far. We assume the next time you're on, you won't be ass. We assume. We're hoping you won't be ass the next time. We assume you won't. Sounds like you're great at everything you do. Certainly conversations with us. Let's talk about the greats of the great, though, shall we? Especially with things that you've seen on the, hey, Team USA umbrella. Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, Coach, you talked about preparation and practice goes hand in hand with that. And you mentioned how you would tell players, hey, bring in your egos. They say the greatest basketball game ever was the dream team scrimmage of their practice.

1:32:15What were your practices like for Team USA? Was it sometimes just, hey, I'm going to sit back and watch these guys play five on five? and it would just be electrifying up and down the court. What were some of those things like? Yeah, well, I actually had the honor of being an assistant on the Dream Team. So I was there for that game. And I did a really good thing. We only had one official, so one of the assistants were going to have to officiate. And I told Chuck Daly, I said, I'll take all the drills, let P.J. Carlissimo officiate. And he got berated.

1:32:52It was one of the best decisions I ever met. I saw it. I said, someone's going to get their butt kicked, and it won't be one of the teams. It's going to be the only official that understands English. And so P.J. really got it that day. They went after it, the Magic team and the Jordan team. There was so much trash talk, and it was terrific. We didn't have practices like that, the teams I coached. They, they, we didn't need it. And we, yeah, it was a different time then. They, those guys were taking the NBA culture, Bird, Magic, and all those guys in the 80s. and now they were taking it worldwide.

1:33:41They were on a stage that David Stern saw as an opportunity for the explosion of global basketball. And they were on a mission to be not just good, but to be the best. and no team has ever been more talented than that team. And the way they represented the game, that's where the Gasols, the Ginobiles, and these guys, they saw that. I get chills thinking about it because those guys would tell you that. Once they saw that, I said, man, that's basketball at the highest level and now we're doing it internationally.

1:34:33But that scrimmage was unbelievable.

1:34:35Pat McAfee:Yeah, I could imagine. And good call by you. I'll take the drill so I don't have to rep this thing and get chewed out. But also, when you talk about what that team's mission was and what Stern laid out, it worked. You talk about Ginobili and them, but now you talk about the international invasion into the NBA. I mean, it's certainly happening. It all has roots back to the dream team. And now they were the Beatles everywhere they went. It was rock star type shit. and then what they were doing on the court was obviously fantastic. I watched The Last Dance, and I grew up in Pittsburgh. I'd watch the Lake Show late.

1:35:03Pat McAfee:I'd watch the Lakers late at night because they were a good show, but didn't really know as our water softener is going crazy right now up there. Hey, it's cold weather. We need to soften this thing up. I didn't really know basketball that well. I didn't follow basketball that much. Come from football town, the football town. So then I watched The Last Dance. That was basically me seeing Jordan and everybody for the first time without just watching highlights at the time. The state of basketball then, vastly different than the state of basketball now. The people that were playing basketball then, vastly different than the people playing basketball now.

1:35:33Pat McAfee:Whenever you hear people try to compare who's GOAT, who's GOAT, who's GOAT, what are your thoughts on that? And how many different iterations of basketball have happened, do you think, since you've had a front row seat to all of it? Yeah, quite a bit. Because obviously, the NBA, I work for the NBA now for three years. About 30 % of the players are international. I think our last six MVPs are international. It's tough to say, you know, people like to argue that because then they can drink and give crap to one another while they're, while they're doing it. But, which is great for the sport, but you know, the best player that I've ever been associated with is Jordan, you know, and, and then, uh, you can, there are a number of other people that he, he allowed, he can allow into his room.

1:36:32Okay. And a limited number of them. And, but it starts with, with, I think with, with Michael. Yeah. I will tell you one thing about international players. Now that's been the biggest change. Why is that?

1:36:44Pat McAfee:Why is that Michael Jordan? Number one, you think is because of his competitive killer. He's a killer for Christ's sake. and he could do anything. He got bored and went to play baseball for a while, you know, and then still came back, you know. No, he, you know, and his attitude and work ethic, I love him, and I love, you know, he's the ultimate competitor. Kobe was close in that. He's in that room. There's obviously Magic and Jabbar, and there are a number of them. LeBron, Coach K! No, I'm not going to say one more. But let me tell you this thing about the interview. LeBron is not in the room?

1:37:32No, LeBron is in there. Okay, okay, okay. He's not selling tickets outside.

1:37:39Pat McAfee:Okay, okay, all right. I just wanted to know. I mean, his career. LeBron and I are close, man. He helped us win. I love coaching LeBron. I want to say this thing about college. The biggest change right now to college is the influx of international pros. There are more international players, and they're all professional, playing college basketball right now. And the reason is they make more money with NIL here than they do with the EuroLeague. and look at the rosters and how many international players there are. It's amazing. And that's why the game, the college game has gotten old. The transfer portal, you have guys who are older, but the international pros, heck, there's some freshmen who are 22 and 23 and they've played for four or five years in Spain or Italy or wherever.

1:38:42so uh but not every school can afford that and that's why it's become more and more the haves and the have-nots and the have-nots uh still want to be the haves but they got to get money uh to be able to uh uh to compete at that level feels like that's college sports as a whole

1:39:04Pat McAfee:i wish you were in that uh round table room discussing the future of college sports alongside coach saban and all the commissioners and everything but we assume you will continue to be a voice for the good of college sports going forward and certainly for march madness for us we appreciate the hell out of you coach have an incredible day yeah slap the wood now okay before i leave all right sounds like yeah i'll tell you what maybe you should go slap the wood because of how good you just did there you're the man ladies and gentlemen coach Roshashevsky. There you go.

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1:40:46Pat McAfee:You should go bop some wood for that. You should. Why not? Go back to the basics. Uh-huh. D-but? Thoughts? Slapping the floor. I'm a hobber. That's what we say. Oh, you don't call it the hardwood? Okay. Floor. Do you call it the backboard or do you call it the glass? Glass. Okay, glass. Okay, slapping glass. Eating glass. Okay. What about when I'm breaking metal? You know, when I'm going through there? Rocking rims. Yeah, rocking chains, you know, especially with the chain. Do we say that? Or the basketball net, you know? Like, I understand this. Ripping nylon. The floor, basketball floor. They're bopping wood out there.

1:41:22Pat McAfee:I saw all five guys at the same time. Yeah. Bop. That was cool. It was cool. That was. Did they practice that, you think? Or is there like a call? Was he counted down from the sidelines? I think hands, I don't know, because I think John Shire did it as well. I think there's a side angle of John Shire doing it as well. So I think there is a tell that they all kind of have so that they can synchronize the bopping of the wood. And I'll tell you what, I appreciate the fact that they're kind of all doing it together. It looked like as soon as the inbounder inbounded to the guy and as soon as the point guard caught it, that's when they all did it.

1:41:53As soon as the ball touches. Yeah, I think that's the giveaway. As soon as the clock starts. Is that who started, Duke? Bopping Wood? Wojo back in the day. Who's that? Wojohowski. He used to bop Wood. He picked a guy at the half court. Not Gene. Not Gene. Oh, Steve. Northwestern's head coach.

1:42:12Pat McAfee:Yes. Oh, I thought we were talking about Woj Bomb. No, no, no. Me too. No, no, no. Because he's in college hoops too. Yeah, the Bonnie though. I don't think he's going great. What? For the Bonnie's? Rumors are it's not going great. Where are they? Those are Rublinks. What seed are they? Not in a tournament. They didn't make it. They're doing the NIT, though, right? At least. I don't know if they're in that. That's good business. Scott runs business. Tell you what, I saw a commercial last night for another basketball tournament I'd never heard of. Oh, yeah, the Super Duper College Challenge. I think West Virginia's doing it.

1:42:39Pat McAfee:I think West Virginia's doing it. A million dollars. I think so. Super Duper College Challenge. I think Indiana might be playing in it, too. I think you win a million bucks. No, they said no. They said no to the NIT, so they're probably turning down all of them. No, they might not turn down a super-duper basketball challenge out there for a million bucks. They got TBT happening, I think, for college teams now, I think. Okay. Let's do more research. Everybody do your own homework. Okay. What's it called? You said super-duper college basketball tournament? Yes. Thank you. It was a commercial last night during the game.

1:43:10Pat McAfee:Yes, and I saw it on social because I think West Virginia is going. I think, hey, we'll go. A million might have fallen. What? And though you're competing in the what? The super-duper. The SBCBT. It is super duper, though. Imagine if you have your one shining moment. You guys don't have the rights to that song. No, no, they're buying it with a million. The million is doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a three-time, three-time, three-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time, three-time, three-time goal scorer in the Olympic gold medal match against who? That team up north. TT, you won.

1:43:49Pat McAfee:Nice. That is who it was. Ladies and gentlemen, American hero, stallion stud, goal maker, sledge shaker, Olympic gold medal taker. Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Wallet. What's up, dude? What's up, boys? How you doing? Hey, I appreciate you joining us on such quick turnaround. I understand you and the boys probably had a little bit of a time. I watched you guys going back into the hotel lobby. Seemed like there was a couple beers, maybe a couple cocktails, maybe a couple celebrations. Can you tell me how you guys feel after winning your fifth straight, your third straight, how does it feel to be an Olympic gold medalist again?

1:44:34I mean, it feels great to represent everyone back home and represent this country. It means the world. And just to know how much work we put in over the last four years to get back to this spot. Yeah, I mean, we have some great leaders on the team. uh shout out declan farmer you know leading the tournament setting record shout out spuds he went five for five in his paralympic career uh he might be up after this one so yeah josh paul spudsy spudsy i like the name i like we got okay so let's talk about um your path into sled hockey

1:45:07Pat McAfee:and then uh you know a lot of the other stories are going to have similar inspir inspirational beginnings i do believe for the world to hear a lot of people getting introduced to sled or sledge hockey strictly through you guys completing the triple crown for the first time ever where we win Olympic gold in all hockey's women men and Paralympic sled hockey can you tell me a little bit about your story getting into sled hockey and then also how nice is it that the sport is so competitive so high speed so thrilling and obviously so damn competitive like everybody seemingly good at this sport now yeah I mean hockey's I am you know no bias here but hockey's my favorite sport in the world.

1:45:47I started playing it when I was three years old, you know, in the driveway with my older brother. So I ended up losing my right leg when I was 10 years old. And, you know, I was a diehard Devils fan and, you know, dreamt of going to the NHL one day. And after losing my leg, I thought I'd lost that dream. And then I found out about sled hockey and, you know, I got that dream back. And, you know, that was, I actually got to meet Josh Pauls after he won his first medal in 2010 in the Vancouver games. And, you know, that's when I really got introduced that this would, this could be a possibility in my future.

1:46:18And yeah, I worked, you know, night and day to get onto the national team and the Paralympic squad. And yeah, I mean, the sports come such a long way since 2010. I mean, you can see it. We're breaking attendance records. We're breaking viewership records. It's amazing to see. You know, when I first started, you know, I was in the, when I lost my leg in 2008, I was in the hospital watching the Beijing summer games. And I knew nothing about the Paralympics. And if I just left my TV on in the hospital for two more weeks, I could have been watching the summer Paralympics, but I didn't know about it.

1:46:50And now, you know, now we get kids that love the NHL, love hockey. And, you know, they're finding out about sled hockey for the first time. And they get to share, you know, they get to share in this amazing sport that we all love.

1:47:01Pat McAfee:That's beautiful, man. That is absolutely beautiful. And you get a chance to, you know, scratch the itch of being a fucking dog. Oh, yeah. Tell me a little bit about beating Canada. And I saw a graphic that said the seeded rivalry. Did we know Canada was going to be meeting us in the gold medal? And can you talk about it a little bit? You know, you always play who you play. You know, no preconceived notions before the tournament. But for me, the entire time I've been on the national team for 10 years, I've only ever played Canada in gold medal games, championship games, World Cups, whatever. so it's been a two-dog race for the last 10 years at least so it's always kind of a collision course for USA Hockey and Hockey Canada to meet in the gold medal match it obviously happened with the men's and women's and it's the best rivalry in sports for a reason and we're so happy to complete the three-peat for USA Hockey Thanks for not getting pissed off about it being called the seeded rivalry when I saw the graphic go out I was like that's it That is.

1:48:02Pat McAfee:Yeah. We knew it would do numbers. It did. Triple platinum, actually, I do believe. So we respect and appreciate that as well because, you know, buying in and not being pissed about people is a cool thing. And I think that's what was very evident, especially from the sports side of all this, which is why I think the Paralympics are so special. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Jack, I'm just curious how physically demanding is this sport, especially the first time you tried this. I would imagine you've had some people that think they could play and come out to practice and they're dead within the first three or four minutes.

1:48:33Like, can you describe a little bit what it takes to get in shape to play, you know, many games like this? Oh, yeah, we've had we've had NHL players hop in sleds for the first time. It looks like they've never been on a hockey rink before in their lives. It's a it's a really tough sport. You're using your core and your hips in really different ways because those two blades underneath your sled. I have mine at about an inch and a quarter and some guys have them at a quarter inch. so your balance and your stability has to be top level and obviously you're propelling yourself at over 18 miles an hour with your arms, right?

1:49:05You see people sprinting at 20, 21 miles an hour with their legs and you can obviously get way more force out of your legs and we're using our arms and you're skating around all games so your arms are smoked and then you have to stick handle and shoot with the puck at the same time when your arms are absolutely burning. So yeah, it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of training to get to an elite level in Slot Hockey.

1:49:26Pat McAfee:Some nasty dangles there, though. No matter how exhausted you are, under the sled from one hand to the next, top in. I mean, it is. There was some filthy shit going on on those sleds yesterday. And when you guys were trying to kill the puck at the end, I think I saw under the sled, like a triple deke under the sled, then a spin move with the stick at one point, and then a dump into the corner, and then a full sprint to a spot, obviously, because that's where the puck's going to be. And I looked it up. They're saying maybe 20. How fast are you guys going out here? And then there's big colli. You guys are hitting the shit.

1:49:56Pat McAfee:out of each other in this thing that's just a part of the sport and how fast are you going do you know yeah we're going over 18 miles an hour the best skaters in the world are going over 18 for sure and then you guys are i mean yeah and you're attached to metal frames so you know it's like a car crash out there when you when you get you know when you get smoked by the front of that sled it's uh you know that that metal doesn't bend you do and you guys are turning that son sideways too i mean i'm watching some incredible it's like a slide tackle in soccer somebody dangling dangling I'm going to turn that shit sideways right through the stick.

1:50:28Pat McAfee:It was like, ooh, that's not – and then behind the back comes out. I'm like, this is filthy. And then the speed of it I think could be captivating for folks. On that note, go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Jack, I wanted to know, like outside of the Olympics, how often are you guys playing in tournaments and stuff like that? Is it all international or do you have a USA league that we can watch? How do we support? Yes, how do we support? Yeah, there's a lot of hockey all over the country. There's local club teams. A lot of NHL programs have sled programs associated with them, you know, for the for the hockey is for everyone movement.

1:51:00And then, yeah, as far as the national team goes, we're training once a month together. We all get together, you know, for like a four or five day training camp. And then we usually have two World Cup, two or three World Cups a season, a couple rivalry series with Canada, kind of like the women's team does. And then usually a world championship or a Paralympics at the end of the year.

1:51:19Pat McAfee:All right. Let's go and win all this. OK, Jack, let's go and win all this. Connor has the last question for you here. Yeah, Jack, how is the team chemistry? You just mentioned it kind of you guys playing year-round, but was there a conversation going into it like, hey, if we can get this done for the fifth straight time, we will have the first clean sweep with the men, women, and the sled hockey. And are you guys hanging out a lot, you know, post-game, before the game? What's that like? Oh, yeah, we're 17 brothers. I mean, some of these guys I've known since I was 12, 13 years old and have played on the same team as them since then.

1:51:52So, you know, we're all there's a core group of us kind of getting into our late 20s, early 30s. So guys are getting married and we're at each other's weddings. It's amazing. Declan got married last summer. The whole team was there. And I think that's the magic behind this team and why it's been so great is just the chemistry and the love that we have for each other. And just, you know, the willingness to absolutely grind in the offseason and grind during the season and through games like that, you know, really gritty games. And we just, you know, we do it for each other.

1:52:22Pat McAfee:Hey, you guys out-gridded him in the third period. It was nice to see. Well, we do. It was good to see that. It was close. It was a cagey affair. It was a cagey affair. It was very close. And then third period, you guys just decided, we're going to pour it on real quick. We're going to win this thing in dominant fashion. It was fun to watch. Is there women's sled hockey that happens? Yeah. Yeah, so just recently, there was the first ever women's official world championship. They're making a push to try and get it added into the Paralympics for the 2030 games. Did we win the world championship?

1:52:52Yeah, we did.

1:52:53Pat McAfee:Yeah. Quadruple crime. Okay. We love that. We appreciate the hell out of you, man. Keep going. We're going to try to support as much as we possibly can because we think it's a beautiful story. I had a kid in my homeroom in high school that played sled hockey. Obviously, something happened out of his control. He still was able to compete, still part of a team, everything like that. And you, still winning gold medals for your country. We appreciate the hell out of you, man. Good luck. Where's that? Are you holding a gold medal up? I don't know. We didn't see it. Yeah, we got one right here. Boom.

1:53:24Pat McAfee:Let's go. Let's go alongside the other two you got. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Jack Wallace. We appreciate you, buddy. Yeah, Jack. Thank you, Jack. Thank you, Jack. Yeah, the dangle's under the sled. Sick. Nasty. That was sick. They're flying. 18 miles an hour. Yeah, moving. Moving, dude. It was like a... Imagine how fast you would cramp up. Your upper body would cramp, like your hips, your core, everything. Yeah. It'd be brutal. I mean, your arms completely... He said your arms are completely smoked. then you got to still dangle and still got to shoot and everything. It's like, that's very real.

1:53:55Pat McAfee:Especially with how many games they have back-to-back. It was fun to watch. I had a lot of people on the internet saying, you guys didn't really care about sled hockey before you beat Canada. Says who? Exactly. That's bullshit. Who was saying that, Canadians? Bingo! And the same people that are mad that didn't like that they're from America but hated that that was called a strike last night. Yeah. Okay. You could say, wow, that was the wrong call. But then in the same vein, you could say, Happy to have it for us, though. Yeah, exactly. Hey, let's move along. Charge for the good guys. Hey, that's baseball.

1:54:25Pat McAfee:That's baseball. Sorry about it. Because I heard it was an away game, too, right? Oh, yeah. It sounded like it on the broadcast. You could tell. So it wasn't even like home cooking, you know? I have seen some pictures. I don't know if you guys have seen it on your algorithm, some pictures of the umps. Yeah. Yeah. Put this mask up. I don't know if it was real or not. Maybe it wasn't. I didn't know. I didn't know who the ump was. Is the president? Is the president of the United States the umpire? Could have been. I saw that online. Are we sure that Anthony hit that home run, too? I don't know. I'll tell you what.

1:54:53Pat McAfee:That robbing that home run, Aaron Judge. Yeah. That was great. Too bad. Man, Dominican Republic team was awesome. We appreciate your contributions to World Baseball Classic. We fell in love with the sport because of some of the stuff you did. America wins, though. We'll continue. Have a good day. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. All right. Yeah, I feel like I really got to it. There was a limited amount of time there coming up. Yeah. I wanted to talk shit about Dominican Republic. but then I also wanted to thank them for what they were doing. They were very fun. Had to make that decision halfway through the sentence because I was going, sorry, Dominican Republic.

1:55:24Pat McAfee:You're done with baseball forever. It's like, well, I hope that's not the case. That's the conversation that was happening in my brain because they were fantastic. Pimp and a rough. Most homers in the history of the tournament. I think they hit 15 going into last night, so 16. And everyone was as if it was their first or their last. Yes. And that's what I love. Or a walk-off. Yeah, or a walk-off. Them actually, Austin Wells hitting that walk-off to 10 run at the end. That was sweet. And them all going crazy. The gringo! Him speaking Spanish in the clubhouse after. Yeah, them going nuts. Hola. Yeah!

1:55:59Pat McAfee:WBC, they did their thing with this. MLB did their thing with this. And the NHL, I believe, is adopting the World Hockey Classic. They had the Four Nations, of course, but I think there's an announcement coming soon about them doing full-blown WHC. World Cup of Hockey. They've been doing it. Okay. That's not. Oh, that's true. I'll get twisted. Okay. I wasn't sure. No, it's all good, though. It's all good. It's more the barrier. Hockey getting a rub from baseball here, not a bad play. A little bit. People are saying baseball. That's what they're saying. That was the best brand of – I mean, MLB playoff baseball is unbelievable.

1:56:34We just come off a great back-to-back World Series, honestly. But, like, seeing – whenever you get a group of the best players in the country playing for that, like, that's why the Olympics is so great. So to see that brand of baseball, it was awesome. And being a guy from South Florida, even that environment down there in Miami, it's like, damn, can we get a good team? Because every time we win it or we have a good team, they break the team apart and we're not close. Like, I had no clue that stadium could look like that. It sounded like that. It sounded like the Pops. Like, it was unbelievable.

1:57:02Pat McAfee:And D-Rose said he felt like that, too, especially, you know, in magical moments. Judge shooting that shit. He's awesome. Dun-dun, cuz. Fish in a barrel, brother. That's literally what just happened there. He catches that so smooth on the run and then goes right to Mahan. What's the video I watched as a child? Tommy Anski. It was right to Tom Amanski. Fucking right to third. I mean, an absolute rope. Changed the game. What a moment. And then diving play like he's LeBron James. What was Coach K doing? I'm glad you got LeBron in that room because he – Sounds like he wasn't supposed to. He's not retired yet.

1:57:35He's not retired yet. He's still bringing it.

1:57:37Pat McAfee:All those other guys are retired. He's still an active player. I don't know. He was rattling off names. I saw his brain. That's like the 60s. He didn't say Bird either. The Bird's in that room. Yeah. Apparently he's not. Bird's at the door of that room. Yeah, Bird's saying a lot of things in there from what I've been told. Letting people in there. There you go. There you go. What just fucking... How you doing? I'm going to go out here and I'm going to fucking make every shot in your fucking face while I'm telling you about it. If he wasn't farming in the offseason, he would have played for 10 more years.

1:58:11Pat McAfee:This thing is back, though. Remember, that's the best game I've ever played. He was just kind of chilling on his side, smoking sick. In the gym. They don't make them like that. No, they don't. In many ways. And, you know, I guess that's possibly a good thing. Yeah. Let's get to a break. On the other side, we'll pick the entire fucking bracket. Boom. Go. Yes. I don't love it. I kind of love that this is what our show is about to become. You can join us while we enter an entire program bracket, which is what we're going to do on the other side. Hey, what's worse than somebody telling you about their bracket?

1:58:42Pat McAfee:Picking it right in front of your face. That's what we're about to do. Yeah, pretty cool. That's what we're about to do. It is pretty cool, I guess. If you would like to know what bracket we, as an entire program, are putting in to the ESPN Tournament Challenge, we'll be doing that on the other side. If you have anything else to do with your life, we will see you tomorrow. We've got like 62 games to pick? No problem. It'd be quick. It'd be super quick. Easy. We're all going to have differing opinions, too, because I know that we all have very strong – I'm sure we all agree. You don't think we all agree on each one?

1:59:12By half the games, we'll – okay, boom, boom, boom. Yeah.

1:59:15Pat McAfee:I don't know, man. This one could go a few hours because I got some strong opinions about some of these fucking teams. I mean, we could wait until Wednesday for some of the playing games to be done. All right, let's do that. Okay. Yeah. Let's get out of here. We should do it. All right. All right, we're going to get out of here. We got to celebrate. Wednesday does feel right, going right into the tournament. All right, we'll do that Wednesday. With Coach K. Yeah, and we'll tell them it's coming. I'm sure he would love that. Coach, can you get an extra three hours in your life? Oh, that'd be awesome.

1:59:43Pat McAfee:Don't fucking pick on bracket live. Being able to pick Duke to get beat the second round and then just see how he reacts. Coach, one of these teams is going to have to make an upset. It's going to have to happen somewhere. It wouldn't be the madness of March, would it be, if it didn't happen? Speaking of madness, what's going on outside? Snowing again. Snow, sun, all of it. It was 50-mile-an-hour winds yesterday. The wind, we had power out for people for a couple days. No joke. I don't remember this. It feels like tornadoes on for eight straight hours. Two days. It's been like two straight days of tornadoes winds out here.

2:00:14Pat McAfee:Granted, tornado gets up to, I think, like 100 or whatever. It was 50-mile-an-hour winds out here in Indiana. I can see Tom getting knocked over in this wind. That's why you couldn't fly in. They told us it was thunderstorms from Miami. No, it was definitely what we had going on. We had sustained 50-mile-an-hour winds for multiple hours. It was crazy. Couldn't even walk outside. House felt like it was about to get blown over. Like, actually. howling like a train outside for just hours and hours and hours. And then it's like, what is this? And then what did it bring in? Oh, fucking snow. Yeah. Snowing.

2:00:45Pat McAfee:So it was a cold ass wind. Yeah. The north, basically. Yeah. Next couple of days. And then Thursday, it jumps back up. Jeez. Crazy. I was golfing last week out here. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It was 70 degrees yesterday. It was windy as shit, but it was like 71, 72 degrees. Took baby girl for a walk outside. No problem. How are we doing? Let's have a good time. We're running in the sun. We've got shadows we're playing with. It was a beautiful day. Windy. Very windy. A little breezy, but certainly a good day. And then, yeah, we wake up this morning, snow. I don't like that. Bullshit. I don't like that at all.

2:01:16That's Indiana.

2:01:18Pat McAfee:You know, we say a lot about them, but... He might be right. That little fucking... Poxitani. No. No. Pico? Pico? That guy's so drugged up. Pico? Pico? Is that his name? Phil. Phil. Oh, I thought you were talking about the suspenders guy. Oh, Adam Pico. Pico? Sure, Adam Pico. He's talking to Groundhog. Pico is not a little fucking gay. That's how I describe it. I was describing Poxitani Phil. D-Bot. D-Bot. We like Pico. Fuck ain't getting a little fucking treatment. No, he's Jack. Exactly. He's a professional. I'm talking about that little fucking rat that comes out of the fucking ground. It gets treated like a king.

2:02:01Pat McAfee:And then every time it comes upstairs, it says, I'm scared. Goes back down. Tells us, winter's here to stay. And all of a sudden, we got to say, we don't need that bullshit right now, buddy. Okay, we haven't seen the sun in four fucking months. Maybe you'll give us some good news. That thing, I've never seen it. It has never said good news. No. We also know what's going to happen. It's going to get warm, and then it's going to get fucking cold again. Yeah, but one day, Punk's Tony Phil is going to come up, and for some reason, he's not going to see a shadow. And it's just going to get warm, and we're not going to have this.

2:02:28Pat McAfee:And that's going to be cool. I think that's happened before in my life. Oh, yeah. I think that has happened before in my life. See, you don't even remember it. No, how could I? Because I feel like this happens every single year. And that's Phil. Is it the same one? Phil's been the same one? Yes, it's him. How old is he? No, no, they shot one of them in the head. I think it's Phil 9, like, Ugga. It's like an Ugga situation. No, this one's not long in the tooth. This one still has it, clearly. Still bringing it. Yeah. They got so much damn Xanax in that thing, so it doesn't bite everybody's face off anyway.

2:02:55He doesn't know where he's at. He's drugged off. That's true. Groundhogs are serious, man. Groundhogs will kill your dog. They got that front tooth. They're serious.

2:03:02Pat McAfee:Oh, yeah. I don't think so. They're killing dogs. They'll dig a hole, drop it around. Look up groundhogs. You don't want to mess with a groundhog. That's why they're definitely drugged that thing. That old guy holds them up like that, and the groundhog doesn't care. Like, good luck. There's no way. Okay, so the groundhog is like a monkey in the way it attacks humans? It can. I'm not humans as much. I'm saying animals, and people have had to pull the groundhogs off their dogs or animals. A lot of times they'll kill your dog. But like monkeys, how does a monkey attack versus how a groundhog attacks?

2:03:29Pat McAfee:Are they different? Well, a monkey will take your meat off. I don't think a groundhog is going for your meat, really. Why not? You think it's a vegan? I mean, I can't get inside the groundhog's head. I don't know, but I just know to keep my distance. Okay, so you see a groundhog, you go, I'm not going near that thing. Unless I have a gun or a bat. Just in case. Because groundhog known to run towards human, not away from human into hole, right? I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't know how many attacks they have on humans. I just know they attack animals. Other animals. Dogs. Cats. There's a groundhog in my backyard growing up.

2:04:00Pat McAfee:This fucker was gigantic. Yeah, I'll replace him. Guy came in with a fucking bow and killed it. A bow? Really? That's how big it was. That's sick. Bo Jackson. Yeah. Could have been Bo Jackson. and I've heard he's pretty good with the stick as well. Yeah, world champ. Fucking bow. A bow, yeah. I got that thing with a bow because you can just fire a gun up. There's houses. One shot. Yeah, it was a fool. Right through his forehead? Yeah. Eye to eye. This thing was a fat little bastard. I don't know where it got all the weight from, but it was Chuck. This thing was Chuck. Ate a couple dogs. Yeah, that's what it sounds like.

2:04:31Pat McAfee:Yeah, I didn't know that. That fucker, I'm happy it's dead. Yeah. We need Phil to be next. because what if Phil is an actual trigger for this? You don't even remember a time. No, I don't. I wonder if Boston has that. Do you guys have like a time? They got their own version. They typically just have cold to warm. Like it is a freezing cold from October, November till April. They don't really have like first summer. But then again, we still get, they get some of the weather from here. So they've had some nice. Is there spring? Do you guys have a spring? Spring has seemingly disappeared. Yeah, spring, spring gone.

2:05:08They had a record amount of snow this year. So it's probably been the worst winter in New England in the last 30 years.

2:05:15Pat McAfee:Everywhere, I think. I don't think it's just – New England obviously gets it more than us because of where it's located. I guess they say longitude, latitude. So I think that could be a entire – Norwich, yeah. Norwich. I think they get more snow. Like Syracuse, I think, gets a bunch. Obviously, Detroit. Buffalo, we know. Those places get a lot more because of science, I guess, is what they say. Lake effect. Yeah, just where the storms come from and end up, yeah. The UP was allegedly going to get three to four feet this past weekend. That's insane. It's like in Buffalo when they were trying to fucking shovel those seats out.

2:05:45Pat McAfee:You remember that? Call the fans, yeah. Give them a hot dog. Hey, you know the deal. Bring your own fucking shovel, Knight. They don't have to do that anymore. Well, 60%, right? Yeah, TBD, they might. I think the seats are heated. Really? No, I made that part up. Okay. That would be a good idea. It would be not a bad idea. Until one guy gets his ass burnt. Yeah. And then guess what? That coffee's too hot. I'm suing McDonald's. Exactly. He owns part of the stadium now. That'd be tough for that family up there. They've been investing so much up there. All of a sudden, the little heated seat or fucking lose you a billion.

2:06:19Pat McAfee:That could happen, though. We need bare cheeks on these seats immediately. On it. Let's find out. See if we get the bills. Sit there for a week. Sit there for a week and see if you get burnt. Capaccio will do it. Yeah, maybe. Capaccio will do it. That guy you guys had in. What? What? Who had the Madonna money? Oh, yeah. Happy George? Is he still at your house, H? He likes when his cheeks get burned. H, I think he's walking to your house right now because we sent him on his way towards you. Just play it. Is he playing the guitar the whole way? Is his wife filming him? I assume. He's doing more than just playing.

2:06:52He's international. What's he doing? Bopping wood? Yeah, he might be doing a bunch of different things. I don't think we can just say, like, oh, he's only playing the guitar. Like, that guy's got harmonica in him for sure. I thought I saw him up on stage with the guy that bought the Ursa guitar. The Tiger? Yeah.

2:07:07Pat McAfee:I think it went for, what,$12 million or something? $13 million? And then they played it the next night. Yeah, that's sick. Absolutely. I thought I saw Happy George in the background. No, I don't think he was there for that night. I think he was in on the auction online-wise. Yeah. And it went past Happy George when it hit$10 million. Yeah. That was his final. That was Happy George's final bid. We hope Happy George gets to that point because I'll tell you what, he did bring a little bit of what? Yeah. And then some laughs. Were you here for that? I was there. I saw. Oh. You missed out. You would have loved it.

2:07:36I thought for sure we're AI generated. No. Like no way that guy got access to the thing.

2:07:42Pat McAfee:I know, I know. You should have been here. It was a fucking wild morning. You could imagine what it was actually like. Yeah. This thing walked over to here. This thing walked over to here. Side door first. Walked right over here. Full kit. Walks all the way over. And caboodle. With a guitar. Yep. Microphone on. Two balloons. Okay. A heart and a smiley face. Looks in. Can't see anything. because obviously the tin on the windows. Turns around, we see his cheeks, and then he bops back out there. Bruce, go figure this thing out. Bruce goes out there and talks to him for a good five, ten minutes. Bruce asks him to stand where they are.

2:08:13Pat McAfee:Please do not move. We got snipers all over the pool. Now I'm glad Bill didn't take a bop. Exactly. There was a chance. There was a lot. Yeah, Bill was like, next year brought in a new fucking 50 cow today. Yeah. He was ready. He was up on top of that thing. He was. Got a nest. that's big motor football that's right amen people need to know that when they're walking around here there's a guy coding YouTube in the back he's taking photos and editing them and then he's got a yeah up on the top looking for his next scalp yes he I mean maybe we don't know that's what he does there'll be a documentary someday he'll explain it all and we'll all be a part of it that's right kid's a talent he is and I think he would die for this place yesterday his fucking house caught on fire that's right what 50 mile an hour winds we're talking about he thinks this is bill's projection that one of his neighbors two blocks down was deciding to burn the leaves this day so burn some shit and he thinks that the wind blew some of it onto a fence which then burned his fence down and inevitably a part of his house so that's bill mccombs's weekend so he was finding some lumber to rebuild the fence earlier you gotta sell that house it's curse.

2:09:27Pat McAfee:Guy crashed his car. Guy drove his car into it. Hit the electric. Jim Moore is it? Broke the electrical box. Oh yeah, it is a Jim Moore. It is a haunted place. What the hell is going on over there? That was earlier. For those that haven't followed along with Bailey McComas' experience with his house, we're in the middle of the show. Just middle of the afternoon. Sunny afternoon. Not like today at all. Bill gives us a call that I gotta get out of here. What happened? Some guy a Corvette just hit my house. I'm like, what do you mean? What do you mean? Guy just drove into my house. I don't know. That's what they're telling me.

2:10:02Pat McAfee:I got to go. So Bill leaves. He gets there. We send Mitt to do a first on the scene. First on the scene. Oh, yeah. Yeah, reporter for this entire thing. Eyewitness report. Turns out it did. A Corvette just right through his yard, hits his garage. Doesn't do any damage to the garage, which is cool, but it takes out the entire electrical input to his house. Like the guy's car just so happened to hit on a spot. That's about this big. And just blew out his entire electricity to his house. So he had to redo the entire thing. It was not good. And then now we got a fire starting a couple blocks down going straight to his fence.

2:10:35Pat McAfee:It's like, Bill, now I got to fucking call 84 Lumber and refill the lumber. Now that neighbor's dead. Yeah. God. Not confirmed. Did Bill burn the whole neighborhood down like the rest of the houses? Bill said he was in his garage cleaning things when the neighbor came in and said, Hey, your fence is on fire. And he goes, what? Excuse me. And he walks back there. Bailey, you're doing it. There we go, Bill. Get out of there, Bill. Ed Policy says, I'm selling the fucking name of Lambeau Field. People aren't happy. Okay. You got to do business as business is being done. Are we going to be the only team in the world that isn't profiting off of our stadium?

2:11:14He can't do that.

2:11:15Pat McAfee:We're soon to be the only stadium without naming rights. That's not a threshold we're looking across anytime soon. Well, we might be a little more aggressive with some of the other entitlement inventory we just hadn't taken advantage of in the past, including things like training facility entitlements and the Titletown campus. So Lambeau Field will be at Titletown, brought to you by cheese. Craft. Craft. Or like the indoor. I think it sounds like he's mentioned the indoor. It's called the Don Hudson Center, the great Don Hudson, but now it could be the Sargento Cheese Don Hudson Center. Bingo.

2:11:47Bingo.

2:11:48Pat McAfee:But it will certainly be Lambeau Field at whatever the place is. So they can get around not naming Lambeau Field that. Yeah, they have gates. Like, there's gates that are all sponsored, though. There's Miller Lite gates and stuff like that on the outside of the stadium. Yeah, of Lambeau Field. Of Lambeau Field. People think immediately that they're going Sargento Lambeau Field. Yeah. And they're like, I don't know if you'll make that decision. But they will certainly be trying to profit off of what Lambeau Field is, especially when there's precedent that everybody else in sports is doing the same thing.

2:12:19Pat McAfee:But I can understand why people are pissed. How come Lambeau Field can't be pure? How come that can't be the last thing that we keep? Well, it doesn't sound like he's going to sell Lambeau Field. Certainly going to be selling the ground around him, it sounds like. Yeah, at least not right now. I mean, it's one of those things where, yeah, it'd be nice, but like you saw Hines go to Akershire, you know, and everyone's pissed off at the start, but then eventually it's just like. No, it's still shit. Well, of course, but you're not, you know, you're not going to fucking not go to a Steelers game or not watch a game on Sunday.

2:12:44If some company is willing to give hundreds of millions of dollars for the naming rights to the stadium, it'd probably be hard-pressed for the team president and the guy running stuff to not at least look into it a little bit. I'd love for it to stay Lambeau, but that's just kind of not the world we're living in anymore.

2:13:02Pat McAfee:Yeah, but cheese curds across the street at that one place, what's it called? Curly's. Is that the little living room-looking place? It's one of them, yeah. It's a bunch of different stuff now. but Kroll's, I think you're thinking Kroll's. That's the place. I think Kroll's should sponsor Lambo. That'd be cool. Curly Lambo's got a space. Curly Lambo's got a place up there. Is that what AJ just said? Curly's? Yeah. Nice. I'll pay what I expect next time I go up there. Yeah, I don't know. What do they sell? Cheese curds in there? I mean, that's cheese curds everywhere. It's Wisconsin staple. Cheese curds, beers.

2:13:34Pat McAfee:Bye. Burgers, booze. Bye. Bye. You know what's big in Wisconsin? Bye.

2:13:46I was trying to go with it somehow. They soaked the fruit in the booze, in vodka and stuff. What?

2:13:55Pat McAfee:316 day. Dudley, Stace Keebler. What? What did you say they did, though? They soaked something in the booze? Soaked fruit in booze, in like mason jars. In like Moonshine or like Everclear? Yeah, Moonshine, Everclear, vodka, all of that. Those ones will get you. That Crow's place, I think I saw a guy blacked out at like 9.30 a.m. and there was carpeting, I think, if I recall. There was carpeting in there. And then there's like a bar that kind of wraps around the middle and then family restaurant seemingly around the outside. This guy is just kind of hanging out, having a good time. Had no idea it was a potential family restaurant.

2:14:32Pat McAfee:I think he lives right down the road. Bartender seemingly talking to him like he's just going to walk his drunk ass home like he does every other day. It was a nice little town. Had cheese curds, had some beers with that guy. I was obligated, had to do it. Didn't drink any whiskey there. Could have. Tequila also available. I turned it all down. Definitely chugged a beer. Blacked out guy. From Green Bay. He was a hard worker. Had calluses. Seemingly an alcohol problem. Let's move on. Big night last night, or this weekend, I'm sorry. For the Los Angeles Lakers, we've talked about it numerous times.

2:15:08Pat McAfee:LeBron James diving on the floor as a 40-plus-year-old in year 23, game 67. Not only a massive ordeal, obviously, for the entirety of the NBA, but certainly of the Lakers. Charles Barkley said, I don't want the Lakers to win this game because I don't want people to think the Lakers have a chance. Well, sounds like the Lakers have a chance, especially if LeBron James is going to be diving all over the ball. And they're exciting whites, okay, and they certainly got two of them. And Luka and Austin Reeves are pulling off the super-duper triple-point double-shot thing. This is incredible. You talk about this in high school.

2:15:36Pat McAfee:You talk about this, obviously, when you're shooting around. To pull it off in the fourth quarter against the Denver Nuggets, one of the smartest teams in basketball, is obviously ridiculous. All of Crypto Arena want bananas as Austin Reeves ties it up. And then they go ahead and win this thing. Who's the ball going to? Is it going to Braun? Is it going to Reeves? Or is it going to Luka fucking Doncic? This dude scored 51 points the other night, and now he is clearly one of the superstars of the league. And also, he is the Lakers. That is what the Lakers are. And his relationship with Austin Reeves is cool.

2:16:14Pat McAfee:Watching Braun kind of have to buy into what this is has been cool because this is a different stage of his career. And J.J. Redick, the big dumb dipshit who couldn't coach for a while, potentially has a team. He has a team that's ready to go. They might win this thing. If they can play some defense and their bigs can show up, obviously, you know, you have LeBron James as a third option. I know he's 41, but especially when you get in a playoff series, he's going to be great. AR is great. And then Luka is one of the top two or three players in the world. So, yeah, they definitely got a chance. One of the bright spots in that game specifically was Aiton, their big man who was former number one overall pick.

2:16:48He played well on both sides of the court. If he can play well on both sides of the court, can they challenge the Thunder? Can they challenge the Spurs? I think so. You have that type of talent. You know, once you get in the dance, we shall see.

2:16:58Pat McAfee:Yeah, especially if Luka can just not miss. I like – He's unreal. It's all falling. I don't know how the hoop is bigger for him than everybody else. He's like a guy that can get to the rim. He can like their game plan. This game was kind of to get him in that intermediate area where he's putting up little floaters. And I feel like he made every one. And it's tough to double off of him because you have guys like AR. You have guys like LeBron out there. But yeah, once you get into like any of these major sports, once you get into playoff basketball, guys are competing for spots and shit. That's when you see the best of the best.

2:17:30So I'm excited about all these young players in kind of the old heads and how they'll show up. Shit, Boston, I'm excited to see how Boston will entertain them down the stretch.

2:17:38Pat McAfee:Yeah, they say Luke is in the middle of some stuff off the court. We've seen dogs lock in before. Certainly. Feels like there's a chance that that happens. And then the Eastern Conference, I mean, Indiana Pacers out kind of opens the door for everybody else. I don't know. Are they laughing? We'll see if they hold the door or not. I think we've lost 13 straight. That's going to happen every once in a while. Took on the Bucs. The Bucs were losing four straight. Yeah, they stink too. Yeah. Turns out Pacers stink more. We lose that one. Yeah. Yeah, Naismith goes crazy, but we lose. And the Pistons?

2:18:08Pat McAfee:Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah, we'll see. That guy was on TV last year. The head coach was going to be a – Bickerstaff. JB Bickerstaff. I love this guy. Probably win coach of the year this year. Should be Missoula, but maybe. We'll say Missoula somehow guided the ship without Tatum, and then Tatum comes back and is just like an add-on to a team that's already leading the entire conference. Mizzoula could probably win it every year going forward. Yeah, that is the other thing. The coach of the year stuff seemingly always goes to – now, this is from our sport. We assume NBA is the same. Do they give it to, like, the new – is it, like, a way to anoint somebody?

2:18:46The overachiever?

2:18:47Pat McAfee:Yeah, is that what it is? Like, hey, has Mizzoula won this before? I want to say yes, but I'm actually not sure. Yeah, me too. If it goes like the NFL does, it's like, who's a young coach that we would like to anoint as a good coach going forward? That's kind of how the NFL views it. Yeah, Missoula's problem is that in May Udoka in the team, they went to the finals, and then the Udoka thing happened, and then Missoula took over, and people were like, well, it's not Missoula. Like, they had all these good players, this great team already. So I don't know if he's one of you. Oh, let's give it to him then.

2:19:15Pat McAfee:He's the perfect – in the NFL, they would give it to Missoula. And Jalen Brown – I didn't think he would. Jalen Brown has had an MVP-level type year on both ends of the court. Obviously, with Tatum being out, for him to step up and be that, you know,$300 million guy that he's been. Like, obviously, Missoula is great. But sometimes when I'm watching the Celtics and I can see their team on the floor, I can't name three or four of the guys that are on the floor because I'm not a night in, night out watcher. Are you saying all white guys look the same? You know Peyton Pritchard? I definitely know Peyton Pritchard, obviously.

2:19:46Luca Garza? You're talking about those box office names. Those are box office whites. I'm talking about the other guys. Hugo Gonzalez. Boom. Jordan Walsh. Baylor Shireman.

2:19:59Pat McAfee:They are just. Which, once again, goes back to what we're saying about Coach of the Year. Yeah, Nemus Keita is a guy who was basically in the G League his entire career, and this year is the starting center for the Celtics, and he's having an unbelievable year. Nemus? Yeah. Keita. See? We're learning this together. Cicada. Cicadas are, we don't like them. No, they're not out right now. Odds for Coach of the Year. J.B. Bickerstaff is minus 170 at DraftKings, and Joe Mazzola is plus 200. It is a two-horse race. Okay. I don't know. I mean, J.B. Bickerstaff was working the media. Yeah, I don't know who's voting for those.

2:20:30Pat McAfee:Yeah, and the story of the Pistons. The Pistons were the worst team in the NBA by far for like over a decade, but for like five years running. One year they lost 28 straight games. No team in NBA history has ever lost 28 straight games. JB comes in, they go to the playoffs, and now they're the best team in the East. He was also the head coach for the NBA East All-Stars this year, so that's why I was the coach of the year. All right, well, congrats to him and Detroit. You guys deserve to have nice things. You got a pitcher of that. I'm not saying it. I don't love it either. You shouldn't. Nobody does.

2:21:01It would be nice if he was going tomorrow night.

2:21:03Pat McAfee:It would be very nice. Well, there's 61 pitches against whoever the fucks in spring training that nobody's watching. What are we doing? I thought we were preparing for the season. He knows something that I don't know. And I think D-Row was alleging to him whenever he said, all these guys want to do it. They got agents. They got teams. They got a lot of things around them that are kind of managing everything. So I assume the conversation is much bigger, especially with Scoobo potentially about to make hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars because of how good of a pitcher he is. But maybe my brain is just too stupid.

2:21:35Pat McAfee:How can we do 61 pitches in the spring training game for the Tigers, but we can't do 50 pitches for USA? I don't think I fully comprehend him. No, I honestly don't really. I mean, that's what it is, is they're just taking every precaution, you know, and that he should be around his team. He needs to perform well for the Tigers this year. But, like, look at Skeens last night. He's still on track to pitch opening day. And, you know, they said from the onset, like, he was available to throw 95 pitches. That's the pitch limit for starters in this round. And DeRosa said, like, he's going to throw 70 to 75 probably.

2:22:09So, I mean, there was never really a world where – so I really don't know. I don't know why he's not doing it. It probably is pressure from the Tigers and his agent and everything. But you'd think that it is just another start, you know. He would still be getting the same kind of workup to the regular season.

2:22:26Pat McAfee:Are the balls heavier in World Baseball Classic? I don't believe so. We actually have one of those balls over there somewhere, and it is the exact same ball as the everyday Major League Baseball. It just has a different logo on it. Okay, so I don't think I fully understand that. Scoobo, we know it's not him. It's everything around him. But, boy, it'd be fucking nice if he was the one about to close this thing up. Yeah, and we'll see. Nolan McClain, he's got a nice opportunity at redemption. Let's go, Norman. Be that guy. USA. USA. USA. You think I'm going to be able to throw this Subway sub into a hoop?

2:23:04Pat McAfee:Yeah. Probably. That's what that is? He sent it to us. Whoa. I put a couple of stories out about the protein punches. Does that thing got laces on it? What are they called? Protein power pack? Protein pockets. Okay, protein pockets. Yeah. I posted a couple protein pocket IG stories, and their social was like, Excuse me. Do you like that? There's more where that came from. They sent us a bag. Golf bag. What is a protein pocket? Just a thing of meat? It is. I've learned this since then. They sent letter with information of what it is. It has more protein packed in that per capita than any other sandwich or something.

2:23:44Pat McAfee:So they're calling it the protein pocket. They got a couple different ones. It's a wrap that has a lot of meat in it. And the Baja chicken one, I believe, has some jalapenos in it and some other stuff. It has a great flavor. Nonetheless, I tweeted or I posted that. Hey, pretty good shit here. Yeah. Pretty good shit here. Get two of them. Pretty cheap. Fill you up pretty good. Pretty good amount of protein. And they sent us that golf bag and this football came a week later. And they fucking made a sandwich. Look at that. Sweet. That's pretty sweet. That's cool. That's so cool. Go deep. Is that regulation?

2:24:15Pat McAfee:Nice. Go deep, you know. That's cool. That's pretty cool. All right. Name that meat. Tone, what's that one? That looks like pepperon. Is that dark? Yeah, I think the top one. Roast beef. That looks like a roast beef. Okay, what's that one? Turkey. That's pepperon. What's that one? Ham. Turkey. Ham. Ham, yep. And then we got onions in there. Onions. Lettuce. Little cheese. Is that mayo over here? Could be. Might be some provolone hanging off. Could be some provolone. Oh, this looks like double meat. This looks like it's double or triple meat. I think you're right. Yeah, give me a big meat. Yeah.

2:24:50Pat McAfee:That'd be a good sandwich if that roast beef wasn't hard. Who wants to throw this? They still looking for a new spokesman? You want to throw it? Sure. Why are they looking for a new one? Some things. Bad things. Getting out soon. What did Eli Manning do? Nah, East Jersey Mike. Oh, I can't throw this. Russ Wilson. Somebody else can, though, can't they? Yeah. Come on. Is it made out of subs? It's a sandwich. Is this a football made out of subs? I'll tell you what, that might be a protein power pack I honestly don't know if I can throw this thing I'll see if I can tell you Is it slick? It ain't pig skin, I'll tell you that It does feel like it's a loaf of bread Tony Tony, he can spin that thing Alright, Tony, you put it in that Right over there, Tony Spin that fucker, Tony If you can put it over there, we'll give If you can throw that particular I'm going to have to shot put it Double meat delicious club?

2:25:51Pat McAfee:I don't know what that was. Subway club. Hold on. Was it slick? What is it? What the fuck? Where's he going? Is he getting a glove? I knew it. Smart. Kurt Warner. Peyton Manning. Ben Roethlisberger. Teddy Two Gloves. Decides to get a little bit more grip. That's a smart play. Pants are falling off your tongue. Looks like you're in good shape, bud. Cowboy looking fit. You can rip that if you want to, man. That fits perfectly. Yeah. Good idea. Did it help or hurt? It helped a little. Are you going to rip that off? Come on, Tom. You can rip that off, dude. Let's go, Tony. Oh, no, you can't. Okay.

2:26:32Pat McAfee:That's the worst nightmare situation right there in front of a bunch of people, too. You really performed well. There you go. All right. If you could throw that Subway Club in a hoop right over there, we'll give 20 people$500 to repost this. And... Oh! Pretty good. Good news. If we ever pick that ball up again, you'll have another opportunity later. All right, let's get out of here. It's a great day to be alive. Yeah, it is. NFL PA's got a brand new – Charlotte Subway sending us shit. That was a good idea. The football thing was a smart idea. It would crack the code getting in the office. Congratulations.

2:27:03It'll get worn out, like in a good way, so the football is throwable.

2:27:07Pat McAfee:Yeah, because it's a little sick. Yeah. You could punt the hell out of that thing. It looks pretty fat. Let me break that thing in. I don't think you're going that one for it. No. I don't think you'd like it. You know when there's a shell around an ice cream? Chocolate crunch. Oh, yeah, they sell that. They sell that crunch. Yeah, it's delicious. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Thank you all so much for allowing us to do this for a living. We'll be back tomorrow with more whatever this was today. Also, big news tomorrow, Cam Young.

2:27:39Pat McAfee:Boom. Whoa. That'd be sick. The Players Gym, shout out to the PGA. Hey. Thank you, PGA. This is good. Hell yeah. We might be going with PGA. That'd be fun. Brian Rollap all over the TV this weekend. Oh, yeah, he was. Has an NFL Films thing coming out about Sunday at the Players. I think it's probably going to be incredible. I'd assume so. Brian Rollap has a vision of what PGA is going to be. I think he's going to bring great ideas. Hopefully, they're open to him. And hopefully, the PGA continues to be awesome because, boy, that was a fantastic watch this weekend. We are very appreciative of that.

2:28:08Pat McAfee:And Cam Young will be on tomorrow. And we assume some others will be. we don't know who you know that show gets everybody it's like being here at about 11, 15 when there's fucking nobody that is certainly a scene then you just gotta get some vitamins in you and just kind of start sending good messages fucking need ya you know maybe make them feel terrible about themselves say if they don't come on the show will be cancelled forever sorry now I've never done that but I am thinking about doing that some of these. Might help. Nice wrinkle. Yeah. Instead, it's always like, hey, there's a thousand other things you'd much rather do with your life, but I got an idea.

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