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On Wednesday, ESPN's 60 million-dollar man Pat McAfee got into an argument with an imaginary person over the cover for his new album, The Diary of a Polarizing Figure, possibly being made by AI.
Apparently in an effort to either make less people hate him or stick it to said haters, McAfee announced his debut album's release on Aug. 14. His music landing somewhere between "Kid Rock-but-as-a-pigeon" and "a damp pool noodle being used to play a fiddle," the album should be a fitting personification of his very loud daytime "progrum."
"For as long as I can remember my mere existence has made people hate my guts," McAfee wrote about his upcoming album, the name generated by a glass of marbles. "I’ve been writing songs about it for 20yrs & it’s time to let them aht.. A LOT of headlines & narratives.. if I was to die, I’d like my kids to know exactly who their dad is."
Taking a break from his role as ESPN's resident tornado siren, McAfee took umbrage with negative commentary from a fake trolling account on X (Twitter, in simpler times) that tried to trick people on Tuesday into believing ESPN was canning its relationship with Make-A-Wish amid cost-cutting measures and layoffs.
Wesley Steinberg, a very real, not-fake-at-all person who advertises himself as a "AS-MR Sports Representative," commented that the album cover looked like AI slop. McAfee fired back that his resident graphic designer, Derek Murphy, made the image, and tagged "DBone" to mock Steinberg for his commentary.
"That matters of course because Wesley Steinberg certainly knows," McAfee quipped back in his retort.
Steinberg, who is again a very real person in a suit and not a fake person who fools people into thinking that anyone wearing a suit must be telling the truth, fired back: "I’ve got a bridge to sell you for $60m if you don’t think that’s AI Pat."
Look, we don't have anything against McAfee, we're sure he's a swell guy. However, somebody needs to make sure he knows who he's responding to before he's punching back at thin air. Another chapter in the diary, we guess.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Pat McAfee argues with imaginary person over album cover possibly being AI
