David Purcey seems to be a new pitcher in 2007, and one can only guess at how wide the smiles might be in the Jay front office. He was smooth last night in a Fisher Cat win. The farm affiliates went 2-3.

I just flipped on the TV to catch the start of the Mavericks' final game of the NBA season and noticed that the scoreline next to the Rangers in their ninth inning read 0 0 2 ... hmmm.

So I watched. And about 14 seconds later, master surgeon Mark Buehrle had the first no-hitter of the 2007 season in his dossier. Congratulations to the big White Sox lefty who recently told Sports Illustrated he was searching to regain his confidence.

Think that might be "mission accomplished"?

The Northeast US is never seeing the sun again.

And nothing is more wonderful than man. But Sophocles has been gone a long time. For example, Wilfredo Ledezma is tied for the major league lead in wins.

The weather and injuries have affected the BBFL in the early weeks, but they haven't slowed down the Magic 9, Pohnpei Papayas, Baseball North and the Garth Iorg Gremlins who are leading their respective leagues.

The patient Sox walked all over LA of A to take a half-game lead in the AL East over the weekend, and Daisuke didn't even have anything to do with it. He gets the chance to extend Boston's 3-game winning streak tonight. Elsewhere, Terry Francona vaults himself to the forefront of progressive closer usage, and pizza flies at Fenway...

On to the Advance Scout!

It was a .500 night on the farm and a .500 night for games played thanks to Old Man Winter/Mother Nature.  The lower level teams split their two games while the upper level squads had an unscheduled night off.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

• Ryan out 4-6 weeks
• Glaus to the DL
• Johnson to have surgery tomorrow and out until at least July
  

Our text for today:

Three rain outs, Lansing wins behind more strong starting pitching from Zach Dials. Lansing's team ERA is just over 1. The Jays affiliates have thirteen rain-outs already this season. Bonus notes from the minors included for no extra charge.

It's official ... B.J. Ryan is on the 15-Day DL. Jason Frasor will close, for now. Jamie Vermilyea is back in the bigs.

So. wise old Bauxites ... what does this mean for Toronto '07?

No Jays farm team outhit their opponent but the affiliates won 3 of 5 games.  Lansing had the same number of hits as runs, two.  Chase Lirette made sure those two hits were enough to win the game.

I got a bad case of loving you.

A (hopefully) fully healthy Aaron Wideman demonstrated his prowess on the mound, while Travis Snider shows surprising speed, as the farm goes 2-1.