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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Samson Sit-Down: Jeff Conine on going from unknown prospect to World Series champion

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Two-time World Series champion and Marlins legend Jeff Conine joins Nothing Personal with David Samson to discuss the infamous Marlins bus, how his friendship with David started, and how he went from unknown pitching prospect to World Series champion as an outfielder. ---------------------------   'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts.   Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson  To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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