Sunday Bird Droppings: Orioles spring training is only three days away

Hopefully some Orioles are dressing up for awards for this season.Hello, friends.

There are now 46 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. In uniform number terms, that’s another Mike Flanagan days to go until real baseball is back with us. The number has not been assigned to a new player since Flanagan’s death.

Pitchers and catchers report to Sarasota to begin spring training on Wednesday, just three days from now. Maybe some time before that, we will actually learn the paltry number of Grapefruit League games that MASN intends to broadcast to us. It’s weird that they haven’t said anything yet, but that’s just how they roll.

Last year, they didn’t announce a spring broadcast schedule until…