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.
"Jeffrey Guy Conine" is 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.
Conine was born in Tacoma, Washington, played baseball at University of California, Los Angeles/UCLA, and was drafted in the 58th round of the 1987 Major League Baseball Draft by the Kansas City Royals. After two cup of coffee stints with the Royals, Conine selected by the Marlins in the 1992 Major League Baseball expansion draft. Becoming the team's first star, he played five seasons with the Marlins, earning the most valuable player award at the 1995 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and earning a World Series title in 1997 World Series/1997.
More Jeff Conine on Wikipedia.When I first faced him in '98, I knew he and (Roy) Halladay both had special stuff.
When you have guys ahead of you who get on base, I don't care what spot you're hitting in, you want to take advantage of that and drive them in. Juan Pierre was on base ahead of me. [Jason] Vargas was on base ahead of me. I had some opportunities.
He threw a lot of fastballs and just put them right where he wanted them. It's a perfect example of when a pitcher hits his spots, he's going to be successful.
That's as good as you're going to see, ... other than Mariano Rivera.
[The difference] is a plan. He's got a really good plan on every hitter that goes up there, and he's able to execute.
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.
It was very sobering but in a way uplifting.
It happened as we were going out on the field. Give him a hug and... got to go play now.
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