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
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.
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.
almost hit mistakes surprises
He doesn't give you many mistakes to hit and when he does it almost surprises you that he makes a mistake.
miss mistakes
He made some mistakes. And, fortunately for us, we didn't miss them.
definitely experience field lacking
We're definitely lacking experience on the field right now.
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.
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.
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.
both faced knew special
When I first faced him in '98, I knew he and (Roy) Halladay both had special stuff,
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.
It was very sobering but in a way uplifting,