"Wife made the sacrifice" - Jackson Holliday's mom Leslee shares the 'non-negotiable' truth behind family & marriage success
Matt Holliday and wife Leslee Holliday have been married for 24 years now. After so many years they can be considered as successful sports parents having raised not just Jackson Holliday and up and coming prospect Ethan Holliday but even their younger siblings, Gracyn and Reed. For a couple to be good at what they are doing, they definitely have needed certain sacrosanct principles.
On the Pure Athlete podcast, Matt and Leslee were present as interviewees. They were asked a whole host of questions about their personal lives, their family and how they spent the summers juggling between the two older brothers' baseball schedules.
While speaking about their marriage, Leslee explained how they set certain 'non-negotiables' at the early stage of their marriage that helped them overcome challenges.
"It is important to have couple's non-negotiables and especially as your kids are starting to get into sports I think it is important to come together as a husband and wife and say 'Look this one here is non-negotiable for our family'" - Leslee said.
She drew comparisons to families from before when having a healthy family meant the wife having to give up on their choices.
"During Matt's career, I remember being really young, we were 24 or when I was 24 he was 23, when he started his big league career and looking around and watching the marriages that were really healthy and the ones that weren't so healthy, what the ones healthy had in common was the wife made the sacrifice and that was a non-negotiable for me," -Leslee added.
Jackson Holliday hitting similar early season slump
Since the start of September and before the Baltimore Orioles' clash against the Tigers on Sunday, Jackson Holliday has hit 5-for-35 with a 31.6% strikeout. The alarming strikeout rate is similar to his first stint in MLB when he was promoted from the Triple A in the month of April. The shortstop had struck out 18 times in 34 at-bats.
The Orioles too have hit a dry spell having lost 7 times in their last 10 games. This has put them 3.0 games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East standings. If they would like a direct entry to the ALDS they would need to pull up and fast.