S9E6: Here's to the Home Team

Love Letters

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What does it feel like to be the partner of a pro athlete? Where do you find support to handle the public pressure, the instability, the constant threat of being traded? Today, we bring you a two-part series on elite athletes, their spouses, and the people who help them. In Part One, we talk to Jordan Whitlock, the wife of Red Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock. Jordan, who has a PhD in genetics, had to learn how to balance her own career with her husband’s, and how to deal with the loneliness that sets in after many weeks apart. Email us at [email protected]. You can also send relationship questions to Meredith and sign up for Love Letters updates by texting 617-744-7007.

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0:00.0	Did you kill Kill Marlene Johnson?
0:03.0	I think you're one of the first people to have actually asked.
0:07.0	From WB and ZSP media, this is beyond all repair.
0:12.0	A new podcast about an unsolved murder that will leave you
0:14.7	questioning everything. Somebody should be in jail for murdering my sister. A
0:19.7	woman who's never been believed. As long as they think I have done this,
0:24.0	then they're not looking for who actually did this.
0:27.0	And that's what makes it a cold case.
0:29.0	No, it's a botched case.
0:30.0	And a search for the truth, once and for all.
0:33.0	Wow, it just gets more interesting.
0:37.0	Beyond all repair, listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.0	Be careful. You're digging in a place. get your podcasts
0:44.0	digging in a place that's been very peaceful for a while.
0:47.0	Do it anyway.
0:49.0	Dig. you're going to. It probably won't surprise you to learn that I wasn't much of a sports kid growing up.
1:09.9	I come from a family of musicians, not athletes. I managed to get through four years at Syracuse
1:16.4	without ever seeing a basketball or football game, and I have no regrets. And yet, time I've learned that I love the emotions involved with sports.
1:27.4	I love seeing people dance through a city because their team won. I am fascinated by fans who feel a deep personal sense of loss when their
1:35.8	favorite player suffers a season-ending injury. To put it another way, Ted Lasso
1:41.8	worked for me, but not because of the soccer.
1:50.0	One of the things I'm always curious about when it comes to sports is partnership.
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