“If you use your eyes and ears,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said on Sunday morning, “there’s reminders throughout your week that life’s short and you don’t call all the shots.”
He’d been asked to comment on the news that a boat accident had claimed Jose Fernandez’s life hours earlier.
The former Rangers hitting coach, who made a mark here in just one season and who had a huge impact on the man who now manages this club, continued: “It’s so horribly sad on so many different levels that there’ll be no more of that, there’ll be no more of him, there’ll be no more of that emotion on the mound, that skill set, that human being, that young man with such a gift, such a great smile.