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
dugout giving hitting instead maybe
We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,
happened hug
It happened as we were going out on the field. Give him a hug and... got to go play now.
addressing brought hard lead management mind needs reasons
I take that very seriously. I think management, that's one of the reasons that they brought me back. They know I am going to play hard and lead by example. If there is something that needs to be addressed, I don't mind addressing it.
field hard normal
That field is hard as a rock, and it's not the normal field that we play on,
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.
baseball emotional tough
He got very emotional when he told us, like your granddad is going away and you're not going to see him anymore. It's tough for him. Baseball is his life.
mistakes mph pinpoint throwing
He doesn't give you many mistakes to hit. It was just command. He was not throwing 95 mph at you. It was just pinpoint control.
miss mistakes
He made some mistakes. And, fortunately for us, we didn't miss them.
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.
box coaching diamond line perfect represents shuttle space stay track
He was coaching us through it, ... It's pretty simple. You've got a diamond that represents your line of site. That's the perfect track you want to be on. There's a box, and you want to put your box over the diamond and keep it there. As you're maneuvering the space shuttle you want to stay on that diamond.
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.
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.
text
B-Rob was text messaging me every hour, 'Come on back, buddy.
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.