"Michael "Mike" Viola" is an American singer-songwriter best known as singer, songwriter and "musical architect" of a team he called the "Candy Butchers", a pop-rock band from New York City that recorded three critically acclaimed albums for Sony. A native of Stoughton, Massachusetts, Mike began his musical career in the 1980s. No recordings of his earliest musical work, however, were known to have been officially released as of September 2009. His biggest musical influences include The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, Randy Newman, Elton John, Big Star, Squeeze (band), Crowded House, Cheap Trick, XTC and Jellyfish (band).

The success of the Candy Butchers in the 1990s led to multiple appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Last Call with Carson Daly. It also found the group touring alongside the likes of Ron Sexsmith, They Might Be Giants, Robyn Hitchcock, Semisonic, Sparklehorse, Barenaked Ladies, and Ivy (band)/Ivy.

Viola simultaneously began a career in film work as the co-producer and lead singer of the Oscar-nominated title track from Tom Hanks's That Thing You Do!. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a film collaboration between Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow that starred John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, featured nearly a dozen songs written by Viola.

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We thought we'd put runs on the board early in the game but we didn't. (Vince) could have lost composure, and the team could have lost composure, but they didn't.

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Everything that happened happened real quick. It wasn't one of those bad games where the balls are thrown all over the place. They played good defense, we played good defense.

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Our main thing was to come back from San Diego with the same momentum.

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We've never come out of the box that good. We came out today and everything we hit was a line drive.

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Robby acts like he's no better or different than, say, a sophomore on the team.

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It wasn't a balk. It wasn't even close ... We watched the tape five times. It was a horrible call.

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This has got to be the best game he's thrown.

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This is huge. This is the biggest tournament west of the Mississippi ... we need to carry this momentum into league.

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It was a game we should have won. If we make our infield plays we win.

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