Former MLB pitchers Josh Lindblom and Scott Linebrink return to discuss failure in sports and life
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Today on the podcast, former MLB pitchers Josh Lindblom and Scott Linebrink return to interview each other on handling failure as athletes but also with life circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I don't play for the fame, I play for the king |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, every step on the field let the heavens ring |
| 0:07.0 | Uh, got Jesus in my heart so I run with a purpose |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, this is sports spectrum |
| 0:13.0 | Faith on the surface, uh, I don't play for the crowd, I play for the king |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, every rap, every drill I give every day |
| 0:20.0 | Uh, from the locker room prayers to the lights that gleam. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | We raise his name, uh, welcome to the team, huh, uh, uh, uh, here's your host. |
| 0:31.6 | Former NFL Provo running back in Chicago Bears legend. |
| 0:35.6 | Matt Forte. |
| 0:36.6 | Uh, uh, uh, what? running back in Chicago Bears legend Matt Forte. |
| 0:49.1 | What's up guys? Welcome back to Sports Spectrum and we have our guys, Josh Lindblum and Scott Limebrink coming on again to dive into another topic. They're helping us out, you know, kind of talking with each |
| 0:55.5 | other, which is something that we often do, let those guys, you know, have a topic and talk about. |
| 1:00.5 | But the topic is going to be failure, which I think is a really good topic to talk about because |
| 1:05.4 | a lot of people are afraid to fail. And sometimes within sports, you're taught that, you know, failure can be an identity, |
| 1:13.5 | which is bad. So, you know, Jason, I'm excited to hear and listen to what they had to say about |
| 1:19.2 | this topic. Yeah. How do you respond to failure? And what is failure? You know, failure in |
| 1:24.2 | sports is easy, right? You lost. You didn't pitch well. You didn't have the stats, you know, you didn't have a good game. If you're Matt Forte, you didn't rush for 100 yards and maybe your team loses, okay, that's failure, but is it really failure? But failure in life, failure in our marriages sometimes, unfortunately, failure in our jobs that don't, you know, |
| 1:46.1 | not all of us were professional athletes. |
| 1:47.9 | What does that look like to respond to failure |
| 1:50.7 | as a follower of Jesus? |
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