Major League Faith: On the Field with the Cincinnati Reds' Brent Suter, Jake Fraley, TJ Friedl, Will Benson, Emilio Pagan and Tyler Stephenson—Live from Great American Ballpark

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On the field at Great American Ballpark, BT has the opportunity to emcee a discussion about faith, family, and baseball with six members of his hometown Cincinnati Reds—Brent Suter, Jake Fraley, TJ Friedl, Will Benson, Emilio Pagan and Tyler Stephenson. The players discuss what it takes to grow your faith in the fishbowl of professional sports, the importance of having a great spiritual mentor, and how they maintain their focus on the most important thing through ups and downs.

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0:00.0	I'm a victim of this. I looked at God as a genie in a way, you know, asking, you know, hey, can I do well? Can I do?
0:06.9	And I learn, you know, as my faith has grown, it's all about the journey. And like Souter said, my identity is in Christ.
0:15.8	It's not necessarily how I do out there in that field is, is am I walking the walk, you know, my living out the way.
0:23.6	And I know that when it's all said and done, hey, I've lived the life that God would be happy with.
0:29.6	So being able to keep that perspective really helps me weather the storm of how up and down this sport is.
0:58.9	Welcome to the aggressive life. A few weeks back, I was invited by the Cincinnati Reds organization to host an MC an on-field discussion about faith. They had a special day of
1:08.4	faith at the ballpark, and a number of the players actually were the ones who instigated having a day of faith, and then they got to share their faith, and they wanted me to do the interview.
1:19.4	So it was really, really, really a cool time. You'll hear today majorly baseball stars like Jake Fraley, Brent Suter, T.J. Friedel and others discuss their
1:30.5	faith in how that impacts their life. I also want to give you a little apology. It is so weird
1:37.9	to be in a stadium and talking because as you're talking, the sound system overwhelms what
1:47.3	you're saying in your own ear. And it's like a two minute or two second reverberation.
1:53.1	Like I don't hear what I'm saying for two seconds while this smaller voice, my live voice is
1:57.4	talking. I really struggle with. I kept losing my way and I kept stuttering,
2:02.2	so it's okay. I wasn't having a seizure. I was just having a really, really hard time adjusting
2:08.6	that. The Reds are coming close to the end of their season and in a playoff run, which is a really,
2:14.9	really cool thing and a relatively rare thing for the Cincinnati Reds.
2:19.3	So I'm a Cincinnati guy through and through, which is Cincinnati from Pittsburgh in 1995,
2:24.6	and of 95. And Cincinnati is now my hometown. Love it, love everything about it. And love the Reds as well,
2:30.6	even though I don't watch them as much as I probably should. Man, I love these dudes. I love their hearts.
2:35.5	So let's get down on the field at Great American Ballpark with our conversation with these players.
2:56.8	Fans, it looks like our players are ready to dive into our faith conversation.
2:58.8	Let's welcome them to the field.
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