David Cone on Mariano striking
out Jay Buhner in the 1995 division series, then quickly being removed from Game 5
by then-Yankees manager Buck Showalter: “He should’ve brought [Mo] in earlier.
Should have kept him in longer. Buck Showalter would still be managing the
Yankees.”
John Flaherty talking about
feeling confident about facing Mariano as a hitter because he knew Mo would
throw him all fastballs: “Three pitches and I was back in the dugout. Be
careful what you wish for because you might get it.”
Larry Rothschild talking
about facing Mariano as the first manager of the expansion Tampa Bay Devil
Rays: “We didn’t see him a whole lot because the games weren’t that close.”
Rothschild on calling Mo
after he became the Yankees pitching coach: “There’s no use calling him, he’ll
never call you back.”
Mariano on reports that he
only needs eight innings of work in spring training to be ready for the
baseball season: “That’s plenty. I try to cut it down.”
Mariano on his reluctance to
travel to away games in spring training: “They have all these young boys and
they want to send me to Winter Haven or Fort Myers. All that traffic. I did
that when I was young.”
Mariano on going for the
save: “If I’m there for 10 minutes, I’m in trouble.”
Flaherty on thinking he would
fit right in with the Boston Red Sox because of his name: “When you hit .190,
they don’t love you that much.”
Cone on the Yankees beating
the Atlanta Braves in the 1996 and 1999 World Series: “Twice we snatched away
team of the decade from the Atlanta Braves. Every time I see [John] Smoltz, I
let him know."
Cone on the New York Mets
using the Baja Boys song “Who let the Dogs out?” for inspiration during the
2000 World Series: “Jeter goes all right. We’re all looking at each other and
going ‘are you kidding'? This is the World Series. Jeter goes up there first pitch:
whack, gone.”
Mariano on sitting next to Yankees
legend Don Mattingly after he was first called up to the big leagues: “I was
afraid to breathe.”
Cone on the Yankees winning
tradition: “There’s always someone in the Yankees organization who can put you
in your place. The Core Four [has] the great five rings. And then Yogi [Berra]
walks in the room.”
“He lets you know,” Mo said of
Yogi’s 10 World Series titles.
Mariano on his tweaked nickname
for his former catcher Flaherty: “I call him White Flash. We have Tom Gordon—that’s
Black Flash.”
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