I'll say this. Any team that wins using a closer by committee better have a fantastic offense.

With scar tissue, you don't know how it's going to heal or what's going to happen with it. Dr. Yocum told me, 'Once December comes, you might throw two balls and know you've got no chance. Or you might go out and throw for three weeks and it won't bother you.' But it's not something where it's 100 percent yes, you're going to be there, or 100 percent no.

I always wait for something miraculous to happen. I probably don't think it's going to happen, but I'll keep doing what they ask me to do.

It's doing a lot better than it was. I'm back to normal everyday stuff. I haven't gotten to where I think I'm comfortable enough to start picking up a ball and start chucking it yet, but I still have the whole offseason to get that ready and come firing in the spring. I'll know a lot more on Friday when Dr. Yocum looks at it.

In Davis Cup, obviously, they were fantastic wins, all of them, but the way I look at it now, if you lose in the finals, then it's going to be really easy to forget them.

We really have picked up the offense in our last three conference wins. You have to like the momentum that we carried going in to spring break.