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
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.
knows reason winner
He's not a 300-game winner for no reason. He knows how to make adjustments.
door goes hope time
Every time someone goes out the door and someone comes in, you hope there's improvement, ... because we didn't make the playoffs.
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.
text
B-Rob was text messaging me every hour, 'Come on back, buddy.
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.
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.
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.
accomplish almost focus gets goal last night standing teams win
You focus on your end goal -- to make the playoffs. You know what you have to accomplish every night to do that. You go out there and try to win that game. It's a dogfight. When you have this many teams bunched up this tight, it's almost like the last one standing gets to go to the playoffs.
close fun playing race
We're playing terrible. It's disheartening. You're close to being in a race and playing terrible. It's not very fun.
dugout giving hitting instead maybe
We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,
everybody game last men needed played step took ugly
We had a real ugly game yesterday. It probably needed to be said, and it was said. I think everybody took it as men and said, 'You know what? It was ugly and we played poorly. So we have to step it up the last week.
chances win
We had chances to win and we didn't do it. Now we're going to have to win them all, I think.
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.