Heads up: Vancouver Sun readers should keep an eye out on Saturday for George Bowering’s essay on baseball at Nat Bailey Stadium. 

Bowering is a local poet laureate, storyteller and historian with a long connection to ball at our homely little ballpark, and The Sun has asked him to pen a piece that will reflect how he feels about the joint, among other things. Promises to be worth the read.

And that, of course, is just one of several things lined up for the next week featuring the Vancouver Canadians as we near the season opener, including something I’ve been working on for a while that has had me rummaging through old files like a raccoon in a compost heap…

Unfortunately, one thing that we thought might happen - a video feed of all C’s home games - won’t be happening this year after all.

Put it down to a Nat Bailey Stadium phone line that may well have been installed in the Mesozoic Era, but the best laid plans of corporations large and small have ended in failure, which means you’ll have to wait another year for 200×300 pixelated images of tiny dudes in white swinging at balls you can’t see.

Hey, at least it’ll be free.

Unlike the mini-donuts, which Rob Fai says are absolutely delicious when grilled. Still waiting on delivery of the Wii-Fit, eh Rob? There are some things a News1130 jacket just can’t cover.

Oh. One last thing. This season our game reports will include pitching speeds, courtesy of the new ballpark radar-gun. 

Yes folks. They really do listen.