Jake and Janie Reed - Baseball, Softball and the Pandemic
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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BONUS EPISODE
Jake Reed is a pro baseball pitcher in the Minnesota Twins organization. Janie Reed is Jake's wife and a member of the USA Olympic Softball team.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jake and Janie about the pivot that they have had to make during the coronavirus outbreak. Jake shares what that moment was like being in spring training with the Twins, having to pause his baseball journey and how God has shown himself to him during this time. Janie shares what that new preparation looks like for her readying for Tokyo and the now 2021 Summer Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey guys, welcome to the show. I'm Jason Romano. Hey guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm Jason Romano. |
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| 0:41.8 | slash TF to become a freedom partner today. |
| 0:45.4 | Very excited to bring to you a conversation we had live on our Facebook page a couple weeks ago with Jake and Janie Reed. |
| 0:53.6 | Now, Jake Reed is a pro baseball pitcher with the Minnesota Twins organization. |
| 0:58.6 | And back in early March, he was in Fort Myers in spring training with the twins, |
| 1:02.6 | trying to make the big league club. |
| 1:05.1 | And then the coronavirus hits, and we know the rest of the story. |
| 1:08.6 | Everything is put on hold. |
| 1:10.5 | Janie Reed, Jake's wife, is a member of the USA Olympic softball team and getting ready and |
| 1:17.0 | preparing to do battle, if you will, for the U.S. |
| 1:21.7 | For the first time in many years as softball returns to the Olympics and Janie was named |
| 1:27.4 | to Team USA softball team to compete in |
| 1:30.1 | Tokyo 2020, which is now, of course, Tokyo 2021. And so I really enjoy these two. I got to meet them a few |
| 1:38.7 | years back. They've become good friends. They have such great hearts for ministry and for Jesus and using their platform to tell |
| 1:45.9 | others about the Lord. And we brought them back on a live interview that we did on our Facebook |
| 1:51.8 | page a couple weeks ago. And I thought, this is a really good interview. They had amazing |
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