The Pat McAfee Show / X
If you’ve been watching The Pat McAfee Show in recent weeks, then you may have noticed that McAfee and his crew have largely abandoned talking about WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark.
Speaking to Rich Eisen during an awesome simulcast between the two beloved radio programs, Pat McAfee discussed his decision to no longer talk about Caitlin Clark, saying that “the universe” told him to no longer talk about the Indiana Fever rookie.
“Well, the universe told me not to talk about her,” McAfee told Eisen. “God came in and was like, ‘You know what, pal? Probably go ahead and stop it.”
“Because I’m an idiot, mostly,” McAfee said after Eisen asked why the universe told him that.
As they so often do, McAfee’s comments were used by a certain section of sports bloggers to get super angry about ESPN, one of their oldest pastimes — the company McAfee responded to published four articles about Mina Kimes since August 12, for example (which I suppose is better than reporting on her baby bump, which they also did last year).
McAfee, however, was quick to shut down the rage-baiting by dunking on the report on Twitter, leading to the post being deleted.
“This isn’t true. I said ‘God’ and the ‘universe’ told me to stop talking about it.. that was thru [sic] me saying something that inevitably always caused full chaos. It wasn’t great for my life or for the program [sic]. You took a completely false headline from an asinine account (Awful Announcing) and amplified it. ESPN has zero say over my show,” McAfee tweeted.
In June, McAfee made headlines when he referred to Clark as a “white b—-” while making an impassioned argument in her defense on his show. The former Indianapolis Colters punter then issued a public apology and reached out to Clark, as well.