Thursday Bird Droppings: Where Opening Day is three weeks away

Hello, friends.

There are now 21 days to go until Opening Day. Three weeks from today, there will be real baseball again! This uniform number was in use most recently from 2006-14 by Nick Markakis, who also happens to be the most significant Oriole to wear the number. So, you know, have a great, you know, day today.

The spring training schedule rolls on today as the Blue Jays will come to Sarasota for a game. Like many spring training games, this will be on neither TV nor radio in the Baltimore area. If you subscribe to the right MLB products, you'll be able to listen to a Blue Jays broadcast of the game, though, because the Jays put every spring game on the radio, even road ones.

With only…