...it's a little chilly here in the press box. Little known fact for folks back home who think covering Spring Training is a vacation: when you're working in Florida, you don't wear shorts.


Wherever you go indoors - press boxes, restaurants, etc. - they try to freeze you out.

But hey, the sun is shining brightly over Knology Park in Dunedin, so I can't complain (yeah I know, I already did).

Great pitching matchup today, even though it is just spring training. A pair of aces - Toronto's Roy Halladay and the Phillies' Brett Myers - will square off.

I don't know who's catching yet for the Jays, but odds are it may be a former Phillie. Both Rod Barajas and Sal Fasano are on the Toronto spring roster.

Check that - just found the lineup. Greg Zaun, not a former Phillies backstop, is catching Halladay.

There is, however, a familiar name among the Blue Jays starting nine. Batting second and wearing #33, third baseman Scott Rolen.

Today is the Phillies first split squad - half the team is here and half the team is playing the Detroit Tigers in Lakeland.

I'm guessing the Phillies team I'm going to see here would beat their split-squad counterparts -- Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Geoff Jenkins are in the lineup against Toronto.

Batting in between Rollins and Utley today, hitting second in the batting order, is newcomer Eric Bruntlett, who is profiled in today's Daily Times.

Also in today's paper, in keeping up with our Archive Files, a recap of yesterday's action against the Braves in Disney World.