Adam Wainwright - Former Cardinals pitcher on retirement, broadcasting, music and giving back with Water Mission
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Adam Wainwright is a former MLB pitcher who played 18 years with the St. Louis Cardinals from 2005-2023. He finished his career with 200 career wins, three All-Star selections, two World Series championships, two Gold Gloves and the 2020 Roberto Clemente Award winner.
In retirement, Wainwright is now serving as an analyst with FOX Sports’ MLB coverage and pursuing a musical career. His latest single, “Hey Y’all” is out now everywhere music is found.
Today on the podcast, former MLB pitcher Scott Linebrink joins Jason Romano to talk to Adam Wainwright about his retirement, broadcasting, his musical career and the importance of serving and giving back with ministries like Water Mission.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Today on Sports Spectrum, we got a really unique conversation. It's our friends |
| 0:05.5 | from the baseball world. We get to talk to Adam Wainwright, longtime Major League Baseball pitcher, |
| 0:11.0 | 200 career wins over 18 seasons, and he retired late last year with the St. Louis Cardinals, |
| 0:17.6 | and now he's a broadcaster with Fox Sports here in 2024. He's also a |
| 0:22.4 | musician and his new album released back in February, February 23rd. He even got to play the |
| 0:28.6 | grand old opera in Nashville. Adam's very serious about his music. He explains how that all came about |
| 0:34.0 | too. So it's great to have Adam Wainwright. We also have our friend Scott Scott Linebring. Scott is the host of the Get in the Game podcast on Sports Spectrums podcast network. |
| 0:44.3 | And he has a great show about serving and giving back. So highly recommend you listen to Scott. |
| 0:49.6 | He pitched for a long time in the big leagues as well, 12 years. And Scott and Adam are friends and actually have connected through the ministry that Scott |
| 0:58.8 | works with Water Mission. |
| 1:00.2 | Now, we love Water Mission, a Christian engineering, nonprofit, safe water, sanitation, |
| 1:06.2 | hygiene solutions. |
| 1:07.2 | That's what they do in, you know, third world countries all's watermission.org is the website. And Scott and Adam actually |
| 1:16.4 | went on a trip together to learn more about what Water Mission does. And they |
| 1:20.8 | were both changed in many ways, transformed in a lot of ways. Scott actually |
| 1:25.0 | working and serving with Water mission now. And Adam is |
| 1:28.2 | certainly serving with water mission in the way that he donates and gives back and helps see |
| 1:32.2 | actual tangible results to provide that clean water and the safe sanitation that you and I |
| 1:37.5 | take for granted. So I love this conversation. Scott Linebrink, Adam Wainwright, it's coming to you |
| 1:42.7 | right now here on Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:45.0 | Before we get there, actually, |
| 1:46.3 | just want to remind you about our magazine. |
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