Retirement
Upon retiring from baseball in 2001, Cone became a color commentator on the YES Network during its inaugural season. However, his comeback attempt with the crosstown rival Mets in 2003 infuriated Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and Cone was told he would not be welcome back. After his second retirement, Cone was offered a broadcasting position with the Mets, but opted to remain home with his family. His wife, Lynn DiGioia Cone, an interior designer whom he married in 1994, gave birth to a son, Brian, in 2006.
In 2008, David Cone rejoined the YES Network as an analyst and host of Yankees on Deck. He left the YES Network during the 2009-10 offseason in order to "spend more time with my family." He was replaced by former Yankees first baseman Tino Martinez. On April 19, 2011 Cone returned to the Yankees broadcast booth in Toronto, working as analyst for a Yankees-Blue Jays series along with Ken Singleton.
As an announcer, Cone is known for making references to sabermetric statistics, referencing some websites such as Fangraphs.com.
On July 17, 2009, Cone testified as a witness (representing the Democratic Party) before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Supreme Court nomination hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. He read a prepared statement in support of Sotomayor's nomination which chronicled Major League Baseball's labor dispute of 1994 and the impact of the judge's decision which forced the disputants back to the bargaining table. Cone said, "It can be a good thing to have a judge in district court or a justice on the United States Supreme Court who recognizes that the law cannot always be separated from the realities involved in the disputes being decided."
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