US Navy Seal Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Gave Team USA Baseball a Pre-Game Speech Before Their Win vs. Canada

Team USA baseball knocked Canada out of the 2026 World Baseball Classic with a 5-3 win on Friday night. After sneaking into the quarterfinals following Italy’s win over Mexico, Team USA clashed with their neighbors, who put on a fight until the final out.

Before the game, they had Former Navy SEAL Robert J. O’Neill, who claims to have killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, give them a pre-game pep talk. During his speech, he shared a story from that mission that made players and coaches laugh.

O’Neill recalled a moment when two stealth Black Hawk helicopters crashed-landed in the courtyard. One of the snipers on his squad didn’t see the crash. So, when he saw the chopper in the enemy’s courtyard, he figured it was a training mock-up they were using to prepare for the US military.

“He sees it, gets on the radio and says, ‘Guys inside, be on alert, okay? They’re definitely ready for us. They have a training mock-up of our super-secret helicopter in their front yard.’ So the boss came out and goes, ‘no jacka–, that’s ours because we crashed.’ The sniper goes, ‘yeah, that makes a lot more sense than the — I used to say.'”