Thursday Bird Droppings: You gotta have Hart

It is one of the two most dead days in the sports calendar, but there's still plenty of Orioles stuff to discuss, including a promotion for Donnie Hart, the improving of Hyun Soo Kim, and why there are so many home runs this year.

Hello, friends.

We have now survived the single most dead day in the entire sporting calendar. True, today is just about as dead, unless the British Open getting underway is your thing, or the Tour de France's Bastille Day ascent up Mont Ventoux. We're one day closer getting back to real sports being underway, so at least that's something.

And in the meantime, the Orioles are in first place, and will remain in first place, so hooray for that! It's good to be in first…