Mr. Kiiffner is off on vacay with the wife and kiddies, so he’s asked for a guest blogger for the next couple days.

The basic message today for Ottawa ball fans is to hang in there. True, the clamouring and the push to get a Can-Am League franchise in our town has been in the 11th hour for more than a month, but believe it or not, there is still time.

The league has given Nashua, N.H., through the end of this week to firm up its plans to remain in the league for the 2008 season. By that logic, there is still plenty of time for Ottawa city council to come around and see that, as has been said, many times, many ways, baseball is the best use of the ballpark off the Queensway. 

And at least one former Lynx player.

From MLN’s “The Raw Feed”, Eddy Garabito has been re-assigned to the Indianapolis Indians by Pittsburgh.

The entire run-down of happenings in the IL is here.

Sorry, that’s a semi-obscure reference. Zak came charging downstairs yesterday to tell me that Eddy Garabito had hit a homerun in ST. I was surprised; in the thirty or so games we saw last year, I don’t think I saw him hit one out - which isn’t meant to sound disrespectful, he’s just more of a contact hitter. When I asked at who’s expense the homer had come, his reaction told me all I needed to know. The smile dissolved, the twinkle in his eye faded, the shoulders slumped. Came the monotone reply:

“Toronto”.