We're very appreciative of them understanding what Cardinal baseball means to the station right now as we try to establish them with us.

That's where we're struggling at right now — swinging the bats and throwing strikes. We hadn't been playing normal Cathedral baseball. We've been struggling offensively and on the mound. We've been changing some people up and down in the lineup, and hopefully things will start coming together for Monday.

For many of these guys, it was their first full year of professional baseball. Now they have an understanding of what it takes to get through this.

We're not under any illusion that we or the teams we are going to be working with are right out of the box going to be in the victory circle. It's a long-term commitment.

We think we've pretty adequately covered the area. There will be holes; we're aware of that, and we're working to figure out what more we can do.

Oh, yeah, people were saying Cubs fans came down and stole the birds from the billboards. That just added to the fun.