Geoff Blum, 2005 World Series Champion - THROWBACK
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Geoff Blum played 14 MLB seasons with Montreal, Tampa, Houston, San Diego, Chicago and Arizona. He was a World Series hero in 2005, hitting the game-winning home run in the 14th inning of Game 3, leading the White Sox to a victory and their first championship in 88 years.
He joined us in October 2017 for Episode 49 of the show where he looked back at his 2005 World Series moment, previewed that epic 2017 World Series between Houston and the L.A. Dodgers and shared why he is loved and hated in the city of Houston.
Blum is currently a TV analyst for his former team, the Houston Astros and on this THROWBACK edition of the podcast, we bring back Geoff's story of faith, how he came to know Christ and what it was like to live as a believer in Major League Baseball.
Listen to the entire interview with Geoff from Episode 49 in October of 2017 here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of the |
| 0:21.6 | Sports Spectrum podcast. Today on the show, we bring you a portion of an interview we did back |
| 0:28.5 | in October of 2017 with Jeff Blum, 2005 World Series champion, long-time Major League Baseball player and now houston astros broadcaster |
| 0:41.3 | jeff was was really great to talk to and it was a timing thing in terms of having jeff on |
| 0:46.6 | because at that point houston astros 2017 houston astros were on their way to their first |
| 0:53.2 | world series championship so it was a lot of fun to talk to jeff prior to 2017 Houston Astros were on their way to their first World Series championship. |
| 0:55.6 | So it was a lot of fun to talk to Jeff prior to that World Series. |
| 0:59.5 | Just kind of previewing the team and what it was like to be around that club that year. |
| 1:03.7 | Quite a special team. |
| 1:05.3 | If you remember the 2017 Astros and beating the Dodgers in that legendary world series, that memorable world series |
| 1:12.4 | that went seven games. It was such a great, really a great back-to-back battle. Every game |
| 1:18.2 | seemed to be one of those kind of games that you just couldn't turn off. You had to watch |
| 1:23.1 | and you had to check out. And Jeff joined us to talk about that, but then we wanted to get into |
| 1:26.9 | his journey |
| 1:27.5 | and his story of baseball and faith and that's where we bring to you our portion of the interview |
| 1:34.4 | today which is his faith journey where that began how it started and kind of his walk with |
| 1:41.9 | the Lord especially being a baseball player and being a Christian and what that looked like for him. |
| 1:46.5 | So take a listen to Jeff Blum, throwback edition here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:51.9 | Take a listen. |
| 1:58.3 | We're talking to Jeff Blum here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
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