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
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.
corner fastball night outside
It's all about location. He located his fastball on the outside corner all night long.
gets rid
It's not only his arm. It's his release. He gets rid of it so quickly.
classified collection guys takes time together
It's disappointing and frustrating. Any time you get a collection of guys like this together and know you have what it takes to make the postseason and you don't, it's classified as a disappointment.
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.
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.
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.
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.