Strangely enough, my mind turns to Winston Churchill...

...I've been here for years.

Sergio Santos continues his hot hitting - he's 13 for his last 23, with 11 of those hits going for extra bases.

Two of the Jays top pitching prospects authored one hitters last night. One of them was really good, the other was just not long enough. Find out more as the Jays almost get the clean sweep on the farm by winning 3 out of 4.

MLU by #2JBrumfield (technical difficulties with the first version)

So there I was watching David Ortiz ground out to the second baseman in shallow right field. Against the shift. And I suddenly remembered something...

The St. Louis Cardinals moved into a shiny new ballpark last spring, Busch Stadium Version 3.0, and promptly went and won the World Series.

Which had to be posted separately because I actually broke the Box software with this one!

I am so proud.

I got nothin'.

Look, I have an enormous piece of research, enough Data Tables to choke a horse, appearing later this very day. You expect TDIB as well?

Lansing's ten game win streak ended.  Ricky Romero pitched well as Sergio Santos provided the offense.  The affiliates went 1-2 as Syracuse lost again.

Travis Snider and the home plate umpire disagreed over balls and strikes yesterday and you know what that means, Snider got to hit the pine.  Snider did have another triple to his name before having his rest.  Dunedin took the singles lumber to Andrew Miller while Nathan Starner and Kurt Isenberg were outstanding.

A couple of nice pitching performances highlight a relatively routine night in the minors, as Travis Snider continues to hit and Dustin Majewski continues to draw walks. However, the star of the night was a bright prospect in the Red Sox system who may be manning the outfield in Fenway by 2008.

It's really come to this?

After the failures of Marcum and Janssen and Zambrano over the last two days, the Blue Jays are looking to Josh Towers to save their sorry butts?

My, my, my.

It's a battle of 8-7 teams in Baltimore. Burnett, Towers and Chacin will carry the Jays' torch this weekend. The Jays should be favored to win the last two games, bruises and all, but Friday is a different story. Burnett, who really could use a win, runs into a certain overpowering righty who's only handed out 5 walks in his first three starts. Elsewhere, the Jays also get to contend with a left-leaning lineup and a revamped bullpen full of imported veterans and inexpensive pleasant surprises. And Alberto Castillo!

On to the Advance Scout.

Late inning losses suck.

The minor league crew decided to intensify our focus on the organization's top prospects. As part of that effort, we will have less game reporting on Fridays and statistical summaries for the top prospects. We begin this week with the pitchers.

Mark Buehrle restores his confidence and Felix Hernandez tweaks his elbow...