Many noted that McAfee, who's also a fixture on College GameDay, is seemingly everywhere. Comments ranged from pleas for ESPN to stop forcing him on viewers to claims he’s not funny, just obnoxious.
While emceeing a press conference with Tarik Skubal, Paul Skenes, Dave Roberts, and Aaron Boone, he stammered his way through an answer to some pointed questioning by Jen Ramos Eisen. He also duffed an interview with Shohei Ohtani, at one point instructing Ohtani's interpreter to provide some 'energy on the delivery' of his question.