David Cone

This doesn't have to be boring.

Hey, one thing the game needs is more people like you.

You.

You.

Certainly experience matters, so having been through it on both sides, wearing both uniforms at one point certainly matters, but the difference between broadcasting and playing is that after broadcasting a game, I put my head on my pillow and go to sleep.

After pitching in one of these games, I put my head on my pillow and I toss and turn all night long, depending on what the outcome was.

You can't prepare for the intensity of the postseason.

There's no way to prepare for how important every pitch is, the feeling in the crowd, on the bench, among your teammates.

Realizing that one pitch or one mistake could be the difference in the game is much different than in the regular season.

So, yeah, that's something you have to go through to understand.

It's kind of, you know, it's sort of like having a baby, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Unless you've been through that, you don't really get it.

Yeah, it was completely different.

Every little thing about it was different.

All I can say is just the intensity level is ramped up so much higher.

to where you really do feel every pitch, every out, every inning kind of wears you down more and more.

So it's much harder to retain your stuff as a pitcher.

Yeah, for later in the season because you expend so much emotion.