Ted Barrett, MLB Umpire - THROWBACK
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today we look back to our interview from July of 2017 with Ted Barrett, Major League Baseball Umpire on the podcast.
Ted has been umpiring Major League Baseball Games since 1994.
He became a full-time MLB umpire in 1999.
Ted is the only umpire to ever be behind the plate for TWO perfect games. (David Cone in 1999 and Matt Cain in 2012)
He has umpired in 4 World Series including the Red Sox Championship in 2007, the Cardinals title in 2011, the Giants beating the Royals to win it all in 2014 and the Red Sox beating the Dodgers in 2018.
Barrett is an ordained minister and recently completed his doctorate in theology.
He is the co-founder of CALLING FOR CHRIST, a ministry serving professional baseball umpires.
Listen to the entire interview with Ted from Episode 21 here.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome, everyone, to a throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.6 | Thanks for joining us today on the program. |
| 0:27.4 | We're going to throw it back to July of 2017 in our interview with Major League Baseball |
| 0:32.5 | umpire Ted Barrett, and it was episode number 21 of the podcast. Ted has been umpiring Major League |
| 0:40.0 | Baseball game since 1994 and became a full-time MLB umpire 20 years ago in 1999. He's also an |
| 0:49.1 | ordained minister and recently completed his doctorate in theology and is the co-founder of calling for Christ, |
| 0:56.8 | a ministry that serves professional baseball umpires. Take a listen to a portion of our interview, |
| 1:03.2 | throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Ted Barrett, Major League Baseball umpire. |
| 1:13.6 | How much of a struggle was it for you? |
| 1:17.1 | Because you said you became a believer in Jesus when you were eight. |
| 1:20.7 | So was there ever that struggle, that sort of tug, if you will? |
| 1:25.1 | I know I experienced that when I was at ESPN. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm curious for you if you ever experienced that sort of identity struggle of your identity being found in your work and being |
| 1:35.8 | known as Ted Barrett the umpire. It's how I'm introducing you on this podcast versus Ted Barrett, |
| 1:40.6 | uh, the follower of Jesus. Yeah, absolutely, especially when I got to the big leagues because I looked up to Major League umpires so much. |
| 1:48.6 | I wanted to be like them. |
| 1:49.7 | I wanted to be them. |
| 1:51.4 | And so when I got to the big leagues, I wanted to be accepted by them. |
| 1:55.2 | I wanted to be loved by them. |
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