Two-time World Series champion Scott Spiezio on baseball, addiction, second chances and God's grace
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Scott Spiezio played 12 seasons with the Angels, Cardinals and Mariners and A's. He was selected in the sixth round of the 1993 MLB Amateur Draft by Oakland and made his MLB debut in September 1996.
He was a member of two World Series championship teams in 2002 with the Angels and 2006 with the Cardinals. He retired after the 2007 season and for many years battled addiction and health issues and was able to get sober a few years ago.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Scott Spiezio about his baseball journey, winning World Series, the battle he had with addiction, God giving him a new life and his desire now to help others.
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| 0:42.9 | Welcome into the sports spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports |
| 0:52.2 | conversation. Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 0:57.3 | Hi, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:59.3 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 1:00.6 | It's so great to have you tuned into the program today. |
| 1:03.5 | We got one very powerful conversation coming up with Scott Spizio, |
| 1:09.0 | the two-time World Series champion who was an addict and is a recovering addict who had pretty much everything in his hand that you could imagine as far as an athlete's concern. |
| 1:20.9 | The money, the fame, the championships, and he lost pretty much all of it due to addiction after his baseball career ended. |
| 1:30.6 | But then there's the gospel and the redemption of Scott Spizio and God using his pain for a greater |
| 1:39.6 | purpose. And that's the part that gets me all smiling and juiced up when you hear Scott Spizio's story coming up on Sports Spectrum. |
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