Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: Few Understand Postseason Pitching Better Than David Cone
01 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is the significance of postseason pitching in baseball?
Yeah, there should be some passion.
This doesn't have to be boring. Hey, one thing the game needs is more people like you. You. You.
You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. Welcome to Baseball Isn't Boring. Here's your host, Rob Radford. There's no human being on the planet I'd rather be talking to more than David Cohn right now. That's a fact. So I wanted to ask you a very simple question. Broadcasting in the postseason, playing in the postseason, give me any correlation between the two.
Or if playing in the postseason has allowed you to become a better broadcaster in the postseason.
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.
What do you remember about when you were first introduced to the postseason? Because a lot of these guys are being introduced for the postseason. You can tell them what it's like, but until you do it, what do you remember about that initial experience?
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.
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Chapter 2: How does David Cone compare broadcasting to playing in the postseason?
Unless you've been through that, you don't really get it.
Do you remember being told all this and then you actually do it and like, oh, this is different.
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.
Is it really?
Yeah, for later in the season because you expend so much emotion.
That's the thing. I forget who just told me this. It felt like two and a half pitches. where it's like two and a half regular season pitches for every one postseason pitch, right?
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.
It's funny you say that. With Zach Gallin, I talked to him. I'm obsessed with his 243 innings from a couple years ago because nobody does this anymore, right? But he said when he finished, it wasn't physical. It was mental. He wanted to sleep for like three days. Do you remember that? Because I would imagine you're running on adrenaline, right?
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.
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Chapter 3: What memories does David Cone have from his first postseason experience?
I know this is a cliche question, but what are some of your favorite, maybe not necessarily signature wins, but favorite postseason memories for you?
It's always the first. The first World Series championship with the Blue Jays in 1992 and the ticker tape parade there in Canada and Toronto was amazing. Canada's first World Series was remarkable. The Yankee first World Series in 96 was unbelievable. And the Canyon of Heroes and going through that. It's worth it.
You know, when you get to a ticker tape parade, whatever it is in whatever city you're in, if you get to that and you get to experience that, it's worth it. I promise you as a player, as a fan, if you go visit it or if you go see it, it's absolutely worth everything.
And just the last thing, how special it is. You guys have such a good booth, man.
Chapter 4: How does the intensity of postseason games affect a pitcher's performance?
Like I'm not to say because I like you all personally, but you have such a good booth. what's it like being with these guys, with Eduardo, Carl, Buster, and these guys? I mean, you've been in good clubhouses before, but this feels like sort of like the same, you vibe off each other very, very well.
Yeah, no, they're generous. You know, there's no egos in there. That helps. You know, they don't care. We don't care who gets credit. We just, and who says what, or who brings up the salient points here or there. It's more about just that we really feel each other, try to help each other.
We cover for each other and there's a trust that builds a trust I think that I find important as opposed to somebody who's disagreeing all the time for for a point-counterpoint type of production, which I I never really liked but you know at times we've disagreed and it's been organic But when you try to manufacture that sort of point-counterpoint thing it did it never really works in the long run for me so the trust that we have really to me has been been one of the keys and
Well, we appreciate you. Thank you so much, and good luck, man.
My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
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