Photo of the Day spotlights the Greater Molina once again, because I was too tired to think of someone else to spotlight and I didn't have time to assemble a Scott Kazmir pitching motion analysis.

So while I fall down on the job, enjoy Bengie Molina taking aim at a wannabe base-stealer:

The best result last night was a rain out in Dunedin.

Ted Lilly reminds us that he’s got a rep for being inconsistent. After opening the season with a brief and ineffective outing, Ted reeled off 6 consecutive starts where he gave his team a good chance to win. Recognizing that it was bound to come to an end, John Gibbons employed the quick hook and Lilly was gone after 4 1/3 with 3 runs in.

Does Photo of the Day mojo move beyond time zones?  Because while I was assembling today's PotD (a lovely photograph of Vernon Wells smackin' a ball) I realized that when it goes live at midnight Eastern, the Jays will probably still be playing in Los Angeles of Anaheim.

Will he get a sudden boost for the final innings?  Does it roll over until tomorrow?  How does this really work?  I need to know -- as a wise man once said, "With great power comes great responsibility.  Excelsior!"

Two games in the division last night as Boston beat up on the Orioles and the Yankees couldn't get to Kevin Millwood dropping one to Texas. Leaving the Jays 1.5 games back from Boston, half a game back from New York and four ahead of Baltimore.

A wet Monday sees just one game for the Toronto farm, and the Dunedins make it a good one.

Yes, Tyler, I know that Canada does not have such a position, and also I am aware that Sir John MacDonald was a Prime Minister.  This, however, is a photograph of John McDonald, the defensive-minded infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays, doing some of that defensive stuff:

The draft is on June 6th and 7th. The Jays select 14th and it looks like it'll be another first round pitcher.

When Seth McClung shut down the Jays on Friday, the usual complaints were heard. "The Devil Rays always give the Jays trouble." Or, you know, it could just be the fact that even if the Jays win 90 this year, that means they lose 72. (Though this is yet another series in which the Jays did not sweep nor get swept; that's another topic, however.)

Okay, I'll admit having thought that the Fighting Jays show less fight against the boys from St. Petersburg, but I quickly dismissed it. It's one of those things people say so often that they think it's true. But it's not. Or is it?

Been a weird few days for Photo of the Day -- after a red-hot start, the last three pictured players have all sat out on their POTD days. What to do?

Offer up a photograph of a group of players, that's what:

Two of the affiliates did not play yesterday, and Syracuse were swept in a doubleheader, so Lansing had the only opportunity for the Jays minor league system to get a win.  Lansing did win thanks to Jesus Gonzalez who scored two of the three runs and didn't get out all day.  Aaron Tressler pitched well enough to win, but didn't, and Kevin Barker hit two home runs. 

If you subscribe to Lee Sinins' ATM (Around the Majors) Report daily (multiple) e-mail newsletter, then you know this already. If you don't, you may not understand the enormity of it. But in yesterday's ATM Report, as recorded here in ATM's blog archive, Sinins announced, "I have decided to submit my resignation from the ATM reports, effective immediately."

I don't know Sinins, have never met him -- we have exchanged a very few baseball/Web-related e-mails -- but this occasion demands two things: (1) that as a subscriber I take a moment to express how disappointing -- while understandable, certainly -- this is; and (2) that as a baseball fan, we take a moment to say "Thanks, Lee."

Not all is lost, however ...

As if I get the Rogers preview channel...

The farm affiliates were all at home and feasted to the tune of a 3-1 record.

You can not sweep the series when you lose the first game, and you can not win the first game if you do not hit. And when you do not hit, there will be Frustration. And Irritation.