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
baseball fresh good ideas style
I think someone young with fresh ideas and a different style of baseball will be good for the team. Hopefully, it will be a good fit.
field hard normal
That field is hard as a rock, and it's not the normal field that we play on,
anybody believes everybody improved last months picked surprise talent team year
I think everybody believes that we have the kind of talent that can really surprise some people. I don't think anybody picked this team to be in first place last year for two months of the season. I think we're improved from there.
good last night performance together waxed
You can get waxed like we did last night and come back and put a performance together like we did tonight. It's a good thing, and it does a lot for your confidence.
definitely experience field lacking
We're definitely lacking experience on the field right now.
business care front hope scoreboard somebody taken teams watch
We had it in our grasp. We could have taken care of business ourselves. We have two teams in front of us, so now we have to scoreboard watch and hope somebody else does it for us.
business care hope job taken
We had it in our grasp. We could have taken care of business ourselves, and we didn't get the job done. Now we have to hope someone else does it for us.
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.
air fastest outfield run
Those guys, anything that's got any air underneath, they're going to run it down. They're probably the fastest outfield in the league.
against guys played
You know you are getting old when guys you've played with and against become your manager.
both faced knew special
When I first faced him in '98, I knew he and (Roy) Halladay both had special stuff,
happened hug
It happened as we were going out on the field. Give him a hug and... got to go play now.
either good lost people
Sobering, but, in a way, uplifting. The people I encountered were in pretty good spirits. They either lost everything or don't know what they're going back to.
good
That's as good as you're going to see, ... other than Mariano Rivera.