When Florida manager Jack McKeon told his players he was calling it quits, they responded with applause and hugs. McKeon confirmed his resignation to the team before the game. He got very emotional, like your granddad is going away and you're not going to see him anymore, ... It's tough for him. Baseball is his life.
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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.Jeff Conine
Every time someone goes out the door and someone comes in, you hope there's improvement, ... because we didn't make the playoffs.
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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.
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Something probably should be said at some point by someone. You hope that's all it has to be said, is once.
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A lot of them weren't even baseball fans. We passed out tickets to the game, to occupy their time right now.
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Around the field he was all business. He didn't really socialize or go out with us that often, but he didn't cause problems around the clubhouse, either.
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