Klapisch: Cone dwells on new career

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His voice is a little thicker, not quite crisp enough for prime time baseball. Still, Cone has his arms wrapped tightly around this experiment. After a five-year hiatus from the sport, he’s committed to a 50-game schedule with YES this summer, even if meant living with the requisite growing pains.

Cone is getting a fast education in broadcasting: it’s not that easy, even if the action in front of him is as pitching-centric as Chien-Ming Wang’s 4-1 victory over the Red Sox on Friday. Cone himself admits he’s fumbled for the right description, the proper timing, the right inflection – all the elements of the job he never considered as an active player.

As he put it, “It’s one thing to sit on a couch in the middle of the clubhouse, watching “SportCenter” and saying, ‘Why did [the announcer] say that?’ Or, ‘I would’ve never said something like that.’ It’s a whole different thing when you’re on the other side.”