Samson Sit-Down: Jeff Conine on going from unknown prospect to World Series champion
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There you go. |
| 0:07.0 | Niner. The nothing personal word of the day is Niner as an in nickname of Jeff |
| 0:12.8 | Kohnine. I've told you the story on nothing personal that in all 18 years |
| 0:18.1 | there is one player who has become my closest friend and his name is Jeff Kohnine |
| 0:24.6 | and about a couple weeks ago you remember we told the story about the |
| 0:29.8 | bus that Niner and I own together and we thought we would talk more about that |
| 0:34.3 | but we have so much else I wanted to bring Jeff Kohnine on the show. Welcome |
| 0:38.3 | Niner. How are you? I'm well. How are you? I'm doing well. So we're in the middle |
| 0:42.6 | quarantine. We actually this may be I was thinking about the longest we haven't |
| 0:46.2 | seen each other since you retired in 2008. So this is the longest we've gone. |
| 0:55.6 | These quarantine because you're not allowed to leave your house. I'm not allowed |
| 0:58.5 | to leave my house and that's the end of it unless we go to public together we're |
| 1:02.0 | done. It's been unbelievable. It's unbelievable. What's happening right now in this |
| 1:06.6 | world and our new normal is never going to be the same I don't think. But are we in |
| 1:12.2 | the new normal because now in Florida where you're in Florida and I'm in Florida |
| 1:16.0 | actually New York has become way safer than Florida right now. Yeah go figure |
| 1:22.2 | right? Maybe we should go to New York. Well that means we got to get on a plane |
| 1:27.3 | or we can maybe take the bus. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. All right I want to go |
| 1:31.8 | back now. I want to talk about how this friendship started because people don't |
| 1:36.0 | know that I did not know you. So when I joined the Marlins in 2002 I knew of you |
| 1:41.2 | because you were Mr. Marlin and you were a Baltimore Oriole and you had won the |
| 1:48.2 | All Star Game MVP and you were part of the lore and the history of the Marlins |
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