And I had to pry that out of him with a crowbar. I was going to give [Gary Sheffield] tonight off, but I figured, since we've got the opportunity here, let's give Johnny a couple of days.

Moose was great; we ran the pitch count up more than we wanted to, but he was a trooper tonight. He had the one bad inning, but he battled his tail off. We just didn't give him anything to work with.

Because the job didn't get done tonight doesn't mean that it the situation presented itself [Thursday], we're going to do the same thing. We got this far by the ability of these people who have been pitching and playing for us. It can't always be a happy ending. We'd like to think it is, but we'll have to bounce back.

[Pull up your pants:] The pants over the cleats thing that Barry Bonds and Gary Sheffield have taken to a completely absurd level, ... Other sports have dress codes. How did this get by? Bonds looks like a kid in Dr. Denton pajamas the way he wears the uniform.

Moose had no command. He's a feel pitcher, and it just wasn't there tonight. When you see him walk guys like that, you know something's wrong.

[Shields had walked Gary Sheffield on four pitches and Hideki Matsui on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases for Cano.] I was looking for a fastball and he threw me a fastball right down the middle, ... If he throws me that, I'm going to swing.