David Cone

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.

That's pretty accurate.

It is.

I think it's the emotional level, too, that gets exhausted quickly because you concentrate so hard and you give so much emotion to every pitch that it wears you down.

You do run on adrenaline.

I remember...

Pitching in a game in 1995 against the Mariners and throwing 140-something pitches and losing that game and then going home for two weeks and laying on the couch.

Oh, my goodness.

It took me about two weeks just to get up off the couch at home when the season's over.