We get to a level of performance at concert time that will surprise us and delight us as singers. It?s almost magical.

It was a good performance for us. We just faced a team that is better than we are. Plain and simple.

We got what we basically needed. We got a great pitching performance from Mock to keep us in the game and figured out how to get some runs late and hold them off late.

In my view, the performance of the line on both sides of the ball will tell us what kind of season we will have. If they play well, we will do well. If they do not, we will not. Sometimes life is simple. At this point, this is speculation, we have not played. We will know much more after the first or second game of the season. Stay tuned.

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This is the next step in that road to recovery and it will buy us some time.