Matt and Leslee Holliday - Marriage and Baseball
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
BONUS EPISODE
Matt Holliday played 15 MLB seasons with the Rockies, A's, Cardinals and Yankees. The 7-time All-Star won a World Series with St. Louis in 2011 and won two National League pennants in 2007 with the Rockies and 2013 with the Cardinals.
The 2007 NLCS MVP last played with the Rockies in 2018 and is now coaching baseball at Oklahoma State.
Matt and his wife Leslee join us today to talk about their marriage, starting a new podcast together, adjusting to life after baseball and why Matt says he doesn't like the word "retire."
The new podcast "Table Forty" by Matt and Leslee is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network and available to download and listen to for free everywhere podcasts are found.
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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. |
| 0:19.9 | Hey, guys, welcome to the show. I am Jason Romano. This is Sports Spectrum. And my email address is |
| 0:26.2 | Jason at Sportspectrum.com. Jason at Sportspectrum.com. I'd love to hear from you. Any feedback you |
| 0:32.7 | might have. Any thoughts on today's interview with Matt and Leslie Holiday or even any guest ideas you might have. |
| 0:40.4 | Just sending me, you know, a suggestion on who we should be talking to, what we should be |
| 0:44.6 | covering here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:46.6 | You can reach me again, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:49.8 | And we are presented today by IJM, the International Justice Mission, believing every person deserves to be safe and free from violence. |
| 0:57.9 | You can check out their website, IJM.org slash TF, IJM.org slash TF, to join the fight to end slavery and become a freedom partner today. |
| 1:09.9 | Very excited to welcome Matt and Leslie Holiday to Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:15.0 | In an interview, we did a few weeks back on our Facebook and YouTube channels, |
| 1:20.3 | so you can actually go there and watch this interview. |
| 1:22.8 | But of course, our podcast world, sometimes that's not possible to watch interviews. So we love bringing those |
| 1:29.4 | conversations to the audio world as well. And Matt, if you know the name Matt Holiday, if you're a |
| 1:34.7 | baseball fan, you know Matt. He was a seven-time MLB All-Star 15 seasons in the major leagues |
| 1:41.1 | with the Rockies, A's, Cardinals, and New York Yankees finished out with a little stint |
| 1:46.6 | returning back home to Colorado to play for the Rockies and stepped away from baseball following |
| 1:52.5 | the 2018 season and is currently coaching baseball with his brother, Josh, at Oklahoma State. |
| 1:59.3 | His brother Josh Holliday is the manager for the Oklahoma State Cowboys |
| 2:03.6 | Baseball team. And Matt is a Stillwater Oklahoma native, went to Stillwater High School, made his |
| 2:10.7 | major league debut April 16th, 2004. In 2007, he was the runner up for the National |
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