He was a great teammate, one of the hardest-working guys that I played with. A terrible loss, a terrible shocker. Jack was a young man.

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

The guy ran the best patterns of any receiver during our period. He was one of the few guys we had that would go across the middle and catch that football. He was tough -- tough as nails.

I think it's exciting for all of us. A lot of us will be on our normal Spring Training assignments, and to watch some [WBC] games would be a good change.

You never want to start with a loss but it's a long week and we never thought we'd go through undefeated so that means we just have to bounce back tonight.

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.