We’re now three weeks out from the blizzard and at last, it truly feels like spring is here.  The snow is melting rapidly, the air is warm and Opening Day has come and gone.  Zak is calling out the Jays play by play (blogger: note - this, even while the Sens are in the fight for their playoff lives against Montreal.  Clearly, my boy has his priorities straight), so this will have to be brief - he’s demanding that I come check out their new uniforms.

FLP Howie Clark, making his third go around in Rochester (twice as a member of the Orioles, now as a Twin) will be the starting second baseman:

Wings manager Stan Cliburn is now also a believer.“I’m a big-time Howie Clark fan,” Cliburn said Monday at Frontier Field, where the Wings met the media and conducted their first home workout. “I kept hearing about how good he was, and he showed it this spring. He had a great spring.”There was some doubt a few weeks ago that Clark would even make the team, but Monday Cliburn said the 16-year veteran will start at second base when the Wings open the International League season on Thursday in Richmond, Va.“He deserves it,” Cliburn said.                                                                           (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 1)

Also making the cut - FLP Heath Totten, who will start for the Red Wings in their matchup with Norfolk, later this week.

Heath in action in Ottawa, May 2007.