Pitcher Jake Reed on his MLB debut, cheering his Olympic softball playing wife and trusting God during an uncertain 2021
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Jake Reed is currently an MLB pitcher with the New York Mets. He was selected in the 5th round of the 2014 MLB Draft by Minnesota. In 2021, after 7 years of minor league baseball, he finally made his MLB debut in 2021.
Jake is married to Janie Reed, a member of Team USA's softball team, who won a silver medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Jake about his crazy 2021, clinging to his faith in God, making his MLB debut and cheering his wife on at the Summer Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by our friends at Compassion International. |
| 0:06.2 | We've talked about compassion and we're so grateful for their partnership here on Sports |
| 0:10.7 | Spectrum. They have been with us now for four years and the work that they do is second to none. |
| 0:16.1 | We're talking about releasing kids young children from poverty. No child should be stuck in poverty. It's just not |
| 0:24.5 | what should be happening. And Compassion says, you know what, we're going to do something about it. |
| 0:29.5 | We're going to stand in the gap with these children and help them and their families be released |
| 0:34.3 | from poverty-stricken situations. And when you go to the website, |
| 0:38.5 | Compassion.com slash sports spectrum, you'll see a list of children there waiting to be |
| 0:44.2 | released from poverty. Just simply the words, choose me, kids from Indonesia, kids from all |
| 0:50.2 | around the world, Mexico, Uganda, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ghana. |
| 0:55.6 | I mean, just the Philippines, Bangladesh, all over the world. |
| 1:00.3 | These kids did nothing to deserve the poverty-stricken situations that they're in. |
| 1:06.1 | But here's the beautiful thing about compassion. |
| 1:09.2 | They give you and I an opportunity to stand in the gap and help these kids and release |
| 1:14.1 | them from poverty. |
| 1:15.4 | It's why myself and my wife and my daughter feels so strongly about compassion and |
| 1:20.3 | sponsor a child through their program. |
| 1:22.5 | And we want to encourage you to do the same. |
| 1:25.0 | It's $38 a month tax deductible and it connects a child living in poverty |
| 1:29.2 | with a loving, church-driven child sponsorship program like Compassion International. |
| 1:35.7 | Consider it today. Pray about it and think about where your money might go each and every day. |
| 1:41.1 | In this situation, your money is going for medical checkups, nutritional food, |
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