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
base good pitches via
I don't think they want me on base via a walk. I'm getting some pretty good pitches to hit.
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.
We just wish, ... one time, we'd have a yawner.
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.
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.
text
B-Rob was text messaging me every hour, 'Come on back, buddy.
happened hug
It happened as we were going out on the field. Give him a hug and... got to go play now.
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.
bad hear umpires
We can hear him ragging on the umpires when there's a bad call.
dugout giving hitting instead maybe
We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,
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.