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Jeff Conine Is an Ironman

What are you doing tonight? Working? Writing? Intermittently sleeping? Watching seminal Martin Scorcese documentary No Direction Home? Sitting around on your butt watching baseball? Having a few beers? Enjoying the playoffs? Good for you. Jeff Conine will be celebrating his effing Ironman: With his wife Cindy, three...

Jeff Conine Not Taking Retirement Lightly

Ah, retirement. Beaches, golf, reading books on the back porch with the old lady as you sip on some chilled Bourbon. Sounds like a charmed existence. Or you could also train for the Ironman. A race that after an ungodly amount of swimming and biking you run a freaking marathon. That's what recently retired Jeff Conine is...

The Dugout: Frank Wren Year One

Sometimes it feels worse to see a horrible thing happen to your friend's team than it does to see something horrible happen to your own. What's worse than that is seeing the very same horrible thing that happened to your team happening to your friend's team. That's what happened today. Jon Bois, one of the guys who does...

Report: Mets Aquire Jeff Conine from the Reds

After losing Damion Easley for most likely the rest of the season, the Mets are in need for a new utility man. Wait, scratch that -- the Mets were in need for a new utility man. From Ken Rosenthal, whom I strongly suspect never sleeps and has a Blackberry electronically tethered to his brain: The New York Mets are on the...

Jeff Conine Is Considering Retirement

Jeff Conine told the press in Cincy today that he's consider retiring at the end of the 2007 season. This news won't get nearly the same coverage as Craig Biggio's retirement announcement will, but it took me aback just as much, maybe more. I'm not exactly sure why that is, probably because Conine is just the type of guy...