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When New York Yankees fans connect for a network of Network yes, Michael Kay’s voice, the longtime advertiser of the team, is generally the one who welcomes them in another game.
While the camera takes place, however, yes the Yankees analyst, David Cone, the five -time World Series champion and the award -winning launcher Cy Young, is generally on his left.
CONE was one of the most reliable color commentators in baseball, for its embrace of analysis, an idea passionate about its 17 years of launcher to a 3.46 career MPM with five different teams, including Yankees for six seasons, and much more.
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David Cone smiled after launched the first ceremonial throw before the match between the New York Mets and New York Yankees at the Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, July 23, 2024 in New York, New York. (Mary Decicco / MLB photos via Getty Images)
But with all the statistics and knowledge that CONE has, there is also the spirit – the entertainment factor which can only be classified as “coney -isms”.
It is not necessarily the same thing as the “yogi-isms”, for which the great yogi berra of the Yankees was known, but nevertheless, the metaphors of cone throughout the emissions yes offer a nostalgic sensation of the past which feels just in the modern MLB of today.
And if you ask the cone on these “coney-isms”, it is quite humble on their origins.
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“I think it is probably influenced by other people in the game. You always steal something from someone, everything has been done before,” said Cone to PK Press Club Digital laughing.
When the pre-match show is finished and it is time for the first throw, CONE is generally the one who breaks down the Yankees starter for this night. And this rupture almost always begins by cone saying: “Toer the slab”, in reference to the mound.
Baseball fans will experience other sentences that will shake his tongue as “burner”, to reference a strongly struck floor ball, but others are perfectly placed metaphors when he can find the right time, which he learned from a former player who became Broadcaster like him.
“For me, it is Dennis Eckersley,” the renown temple lift which is also in the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame for its work as an analyst of the colors of the Boston Red Sox. “Dennis Eckersley had a bit of all this jargon for himself. I think it was he who initially invented a” walking piece “. For him, it was when a launcher had to leave the mound after abandoning the winning race.
David Cone launched the first ceremonial throw before the match between New York Mets and New York Yankees at the Yankee Stadium on Tuesday July 23, 2024 in New York, New York. (Mary Decicco / MLB photos via Getty Images)
While Cone has original jokes in his years of broadcasting, he is a sponge when it comes to hearing something he loves, like “phone swing”.
“The first time I heard someone say ‘Swing Terophone Swing’ ‘, as if you are swinging in a telephone booth. Someone who is completely attached and has a ugly swing, little in Timi-Coeur, it’s like swinging in a telephone booth. It was [Kansas City Royals former reliever] Dan Quisenberry, he taught me that one in the early 1980s. So a game is just with a spirit with your own little mind in which you can interjection and find your own metaphor. “”
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One of Cone’s favorites, of which he said is an original of which he is proud, was the first time that he has torn off a “Forrest Gump Ball” during a broadcast. During the film by Tom Hanks acclaimed by criticism, his character of Forrest Gump discusses where he was filmed during his stay in the Vietnam War.
“It’s easy to call – a Forrest Gump ball. His famous line in the film,” in the buttock “, said CONE. “You are always looking for pop culture references, musical references if possible. And this kind of thing is something for which you need to be open, but not forced. Look for opportunities to be able to use them.”
When CONE calls a game in the Yankee Stadium stand, the “Boogie Down Bronx” is always a favorite of fans. He said he had become “in love” by hip-hop culture while he was playing in the Bronx, so he made a point over the years to connect with this side of the story surrounding the stadium.
“It is a tribute to the pride of the Bronx,” he said. “There is a reason why this is called the” Boogie Down Bronx “. You check your story in Hip Hop, and it is recognized to be the place of birth [of it]. So, yes, it’s just the pride of the Bronx. “”
Former New York York Cone Yankees poses a photo before the match between New York Yankees and Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium on June 24, 2022 in New York. (Mike Stobe / Getty images)
By calling a dirty cursor a “frisbee”, saying that a launcher “had a little traffic, but avoided being hit in the middle of the road”, there was a sentence for each situation he seems when Cone is in the microphone.
All of this is for the love of the game.
“I think it just tried to be light and funny and entertaining when it is appropriate,” he said. “The game lends itself to this at certain times. When the game drags a little when opposed to a really full-action game. Then the game is called a little at that time. There are certainly opportunities to be light and funny and entertaining when you can because people watch these games to escape from everything that is going on. This connection to the Yankees over the years.”
