Jeff Conine
Jeff Conine
Jeffrey Guy Conineis a former Major League Baseball player who played 17 seasons with six teams primarily as an outfielder. An inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, he earned the title Mr. Marlin for his significant history with the club, and his ties to South Florida...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 June 1966
coming nobody time work
When I was first coming up, you were never late, never said anything. It's a rule. You show up on time and work hard, nobody will say anything to you.
feeling good plate steadily swing
I've been steadily feeling better and better at the plate and feeling more comfortable to hit. I feel like my swing is really good right now.
best bit looks nice pitchers ran usual
It would have been nice to get a little bit of separation, but we ran into two of the best pitchers in the big leagues. It was usual Pettitte. He showed us different looks in every at-bat.
It was very sobering but in a way uplifting,
financial reality stadium state team
The whole state of the team is sad. The whole stadium situation, the financial reality of what they had to do, it is sad.
balance bats effective kept obviously square stuff
A lot of first-pitch strikes, he kept you off balance with a lot of off-speed stuff after fastballs. Obviously that was effective because we didn't get too many square bats on the ball.
baseball occupy passed tickets time
A lot of them weren't even baseball fans. We passed out tickets to the game, to occupy their time right now.
coming lost
They're happy, but they lost everything or don't know what they're coming back to.
encouraged fact hope next support sure team together
You sure hope so. You got to hope and feel encouraged by the fact that, if we keep this team together and play as excitingly as we have next year, that they'll come out to support us.
encouraged fact hope next support sure team together
You sure hope so, ... You got to hope and feel encouraged by the fact that, if we keep this team together and play as excitingly as we have next year, that they'll come out to support us.
hope point
Something probably should be said at some point by someone. You hope that's all it has to be said, is once.
catch heck hit
I hit it off the end, a split-finger down and in. I didn't think he was going to catch up to it, but he made a heck of a play.
accepted four good indication played positions quite time
In 2001, I played four different positions and I had a really good time doing it. I accepted it as a challenge. Every indication is I'll be out there quite a lot.
good guys realize
I don't think some of these guys realize they're in the World Series. Which is probably a good thing.