Maybe this guy needs to develop some technical or computer skills because this pitching thing ain’t working out. Scott Mathieson is still being bothered by setbacks from his Tommy John surgery and it could affect the future of his floundering career:
Mathieson, the team’s 17th-round pick in 2002, has seen team physician Michael Ciccotti and noted orthopedic surgeons Lew Yocum, who performed the first surgery, and James Andrews, who will perform the second surgery, for opinions on his right elbow. His latest MRI shows the ligament is intact, but stretched out. Andrews will scope the elbow first, but Phillies athletic trainer Scott Sheridan said a second Tommy John is most likely.
Mathieson could be a good reliever or average starter if his body would cooperate. Sadly this may not be in the cards for the Phillies, and perhaps Mathieson might have to give up his dream of being a big league pitcher. There are some success stories, but it looks like most people who have multiple Tommy John surgeries just don’t resurface as major league talent.
Good luck to Scott, but I’m wondering if he should put himself through this sort of long, slow process again. He may just not be built to do this stuff.
The skirmishes of the first six games boiled over with 9 minutes, 9 seconds left in the third quarter, with Boston already leading 51-28, when Rondo got the ball on a breakaway in the third quarter and had only Marvin Williams to beat.
Yes, they won 99-65 and held the Atlanta Hawks to 26 points in the 1st half. Only two Hawks players, Joe Johnson and Salim Stoudamire, managed to amass double-digit point totals and the team shot 29.3% from the field for the game. 29.3%. I have never seen a shooting percentage that low. NEVER. I’d say it was a pathetic showing by the Hawks but I promised I wouldn’t comment.
Next up for the hated Celtics will be the Cleveland Lebrons, er Cavaliers. Perhaps the Celtics have exercised their demons with this long series against the Hawks. This series against the Cavaliers could go down like butter with them sweeping or winning in 5, or they could have another long series which requires a game 7 victory. I would pick the latter simply because Lebron James CAN win you a game or two in every playoff series by himself. The man averaged 29.8 pts, 9.5 rebounds and 7.7 assists against the Wizards.
In any event, I’ll be rooting for a Cavaliers/Orlando Magic conference finals. I’ve had it with the Detroit Pistons and I don’t like the Boston Celtics. The Western Conference is where it’s at anyway.
Remember the time Mr Turner was an integral part of the show, and his buddy Eli was also regularly on it?! And remember when big man Frankie was the ‘enforcer’ but wanted to be loved?!?!?! I DO I DO OMGZ DO I EVER
Methinks Buzz is just angry and he doesn’t really know why. Other blogs have written far more eloquentpieces, so I’m just going to post the video and simply state that ‘Buzz’ (really? Buzz? REALLY?) doesn’t understand the difference between a commenter and the guy who writes the blog posts. He also doesn’t understand crude humor, snark, or sarcasm. That may be part of why he sees such a problem with so much ‘vulgarity’ and ‘dishonesty’ and ’speed’. People post their reactions to events and to other people’s opinions. Some blogs are better than others. Blogs have different missions. Some are poignant, some are funny, some seek to open dialogue, and some are just an outlet for somebody with opinions. Many people writing for blogs are smart people with *GASP* journalistic backgrounds. Hell, some newspapers actually embrace blogs and the internet. Imagine that.
Methinks Buzz is just angry. Angry that he is no longer the ‘voice’ of the fan and that he has to share that with, well, fans. Angry that there’s this ever-growing segment of people that won’t just lap up and take as gospel whatever he and other columnists write. Funny thing is, he has written some pretty good, if sappy, stuff. He just sounds bitter when he tries to rail against the ‘degradation’ of society while he is happy to throw out multiple curse words and character assasinate someone else in the process. He doesn’t want blogs to do that though; leave that job to the experts who’ve spent years perfecting their craft.
TONIGHT: Chris Mathews, John Legend and Mayor Michael Nutter
OH BOY FOLKS! Here we go! Montco man Chris Matthews, terrific performer John Legend, and our main man, the man with the plan, the man with the funny name and even funnier nose, mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter are all going to be going toe-to-toe with one Stephen Colbert.
After you’re done writing off your last pointed tip bolo knife purchase (whoever said being a Laotian hitman would come back to bite you at tax time?) be sure to catch Michelle Obama’s tax night (April 15) appearance on The Colbert Report — part of “The Colbert Report: Doritos Spicy Sweet Pennsylvania Primary Coverage From Chili-Delphia - The City of Brotherly Crunch!”
Will the Colbert bump affect Barack Obama’s candidacy? It certainly helped Mike Huckabee! He’s well on his way to being the vice presidential candidate of the Republicans. The man went from an unknown Southern governor afterthought to #2 in the Republican race. Not bad, and all thanks to the magic that is The Colbert Report.
Tune in 11:30 PM eastern time to Comedy Central for all the truthiness you can handle!
Remember the time in the first season when Cory’s mom was sneaking around behind everyone’s backs to go to a fancy restaurant?!?! AND THERE WUZ CHAOS!!!!!!!!
He’s no all-star, that’s for damn sure. Even he realizes he’s got problems:
“Not the impression you want to make,” Bruntlett said.
Nope. Get Rollins out there. He can stand there and just put his glove up and do a better job than this bum. I’m already tired of Mr. 167 Average and his brutal glovework.
Well, it was a rainy, crappy day out for Opening Day and the Phils pitching looked quite crappy. Brett Myers had a rough first outing, going 5 innings while giving up 4 runs, and Ryan Madson also gave up 2 runs via a homer in only one inning of work. It wasn’t a pretty day for baseball.
However, it was Tom Gordon that took the prize for worst pitcher in the world home today. Gordon, whose 40-year old arm arm is being held together by a thread, didn’t exactly look like he was in mid-season form. Or maybe he was, and that’s the scary thing. The 9th inning saw Mr. Gordon enter the game and take control of the outcome of the first game of the season. He gave up a single to Lastings Milledge but then got Ryan Zimmerman to fly out to right field. Then came Nick Johnson to to double in Milledge and break the 6-6 tie for good. The Nationals piled on after that by cranking out 3 more doubles and 4 more runs to put the game away at 11-6.
There is one positive to come out of this news. Gordon’s ridiculous line to open the 2008 campaign is worrisome but it’s not like he’s in a vital role in the bullpen where he comes into high-pressure situations…oh crap.
Yes, the Main Event of the World Series of Poker is over and a champion has been crowned. Jerry Yang is another complete unknown, following in the footsteps of Chris Moneymaker from 2003, who has never even cashed in a poker tournament. No, he’s not the co-founder of Yahoo, but is instead a psychologist and social worker. Yang collected all the chips in play, besting 2nd place Tuan Lam on the last hand:
Hand #205 - Jerry Yang has the button, he raises to 2.3 million, Tuan Lam moves all in for 22.2 million, and Yang thinks for about ten seconds before he calls.
Yang shows , and Lam shows . It’s a race situation, and Lam needs to improve to stay alive. The crowd erupts into chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” and something similar with “Canada! Canada!”
There is standing room only here, and everybody is on their feet, including the players. (But excluding your faithful tournament reporters.)
The flop comes , and half of the ESPN Arena erupts in applause as Tuan Lam flops a pair of queens to take the lead, and he is a big favorite to double up, making this a much closer heads-up match. Yang needs an eight or something runner-runner.
The turn card is the , and Yang picks up a gut-shot straight draw, winning with an eight (for a set) or a six (for a nine-high straight).
The river card is the — ! Jerry Yang spikes a six on the river to win the hand — and the 2007 WSOP World Championship — with a nine-high straight.
88 v AQ suited for the win. He takes home 8.25 million, while, Lam wins 4.84 million. Not bad! Yang has pledge to donate 10% of his winnings to several charities, and was noteworthy for being the player at the table to constantly thank his God and talk about his Christianity. While that’s not my thing (does your God pick which players he wants to give sets and full houses to?), I guess it works for Yang. He certainly seems like he’s a guy that will appreciate the money. He also vowed to give his children the best education possible.
My final table rooting interest was Alexander Kravchenko, who seemed to be a down-to-earth guy that will use the money he won wisely. He took home 4th place and 1.85 million dollars, as well as winning a bracelet earlier in the Series when he bagged first place and $228,446 in the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo Split 8 or Better tourney. He stated in his exit interview that he would play LESS poker, not more, and I completely respect and support that. Why put all the money you earned back into the poker community, simply because you feel you have to ‘prove’ you can play at high-limit levels in the cash games? No one says you have to prove anything to anyone. Take the money and enjoy it.
Well, the World Series of Poker is officially over. Thanks to Poker News for the great updates, and thanks to the people over at 2plus2 for their fun analysis of the tournament. ESPN will certainly slice and dice the coverage down into all-ins, bluffs and backstories, partially ruining what should be the best televised poker program out there (that goes to High Stakes Poker). Oh well, it’ll still be fun to see the tournament play out when they do show it.
Lee Watkinson, one of only ‘name’ pros left(Kenny Tran and boisterous Scotty Nyguen are the other ‘names’), is leading the WSOP holding over 14 million chips, with the next closest player holding less than 11 million. There is no doubt that the field will be whittle down to the final table before everyone on the East Coast wakes up tomorrow, so this update may prove meaningless. With the lack of post-flop play in this tournament, anyone can be out in a bad swing.
Still, it’s good to see someone that poker fans could recognize as the chipleader. He’s not the loudest guy, or the most ESPN-friendly, but Watkinson has had several appearances on TV final tables. Good for him.
And now they’re eating dinner. Robert Nehorayan is the first to a million chips. And ladies…I think he’s free. He’s actually had a lot of minor cashes, and won an event at the California State Poker Championship. Good to see him in the lead. John Kalmar is in 2nd with around 900K and is from the UK, while 3rd place Senovio Ramirez III seems to have started playing more of late, picking up 2 cashes (and final tabling once) in the past 2 months. Kenny Tran is probably the most famous of the top 10 chip stacks, final tabling at this year’s HORSE event and cashing in another event.
Looks like this year’s field is whittling down fast, too.
In the poker world, the 10K Main Event at the World Series of Poker is the big event, the show. But the pro’s game for last year was the 50K HORSE (limit hold ‘em, omaha, razz, stud hi, and stud hi/lo). This year’s event started with 148 players, played very fast for 4 days, before the 5th day has been whittled down to only the final table. Only 16 players total cash, and most of the money is lumped into first place. This is great for one person, and sucks for most everyone else.
The guy I’m rooting for is Barry Greentsein, who seems to be one of the coolest guys out there giving money to charity, playing great poker, and knowing how to play all of the games.
Mr. Kotter Gabe Kaplan was eliminated right before the final table, going out in 9th. Here’s the other cashes:
The weather has gotten on my last nerve. The clouds depress my favorite radio personality Kidd Chris, it fogs up my glasses when I walk outside, and now rain has caused the cancellation of the 3rd Phillies game in the past 10 days. This is simply too far. No doub this is a trick of the liberal media trying to drive up ratings for their weather-related propaganda. Mother Nature needs to get her weather in check. I better see some sun tomorrow, or it’s go time!
It’s the easiest way to make a blog entry when we can’t decide what to write about!!! Some throwaway one-liners!
Your Philadelphia Phillies struggled last night, twice grounding out with the bases loaded in the 1st inning, which set the tone for the rest of the night. They ended up losing 5-3 to the Padres, and are now 38-46. Perhaps the only suspect move that Charlie Manuel had all night was pinch-hitting Abraham Nunez (he of the 144 average with no patience and power) for Carlos Ruiz in the 9th inning for no real reason at all. Ruiz had given closer Trevor Hoffman a run for his money the night before, and they might as well have let him go at it again…but no. Abe had to get his hacks, and he struck out on three pitches.
The Lehigh Valley needs light rail. Opponents say that widening roads will fix all…because that always works. Sign a petition for light rail here.
Pedro goes on the DL, and everyone assumes he’s just skipping the all-star break. Somehow, we doubt it, although a sore hip is a very hard injury to discredit. It has all the makings of an NBA injured list job where the team finds ‘bursitis’ in order to keep a 13th player. Stay tuned.
Another reason to hate artificial turf: you can’t use fireworks on it. For whatever reason local high schools are increasingly buying artifical turf for their football fields, and this has caused a ripple effect by barring local fairs from using the fields for such evil purposes as fireworks on the 4th of July.
STOP TALKING ABOUT TERRELL OWENS! No link here, just stop. Get over it, everybody.
John Grogan of the Inky writes about…puppies. Didn’t he write a book about his dog dying? Guess he’s just playing into his audience, but how is this news?
Maybe this guy needs to develop some technical or computer skills because this pitching thing ain’t working out. Scott Mathieson is still being bothered by setbacks from his Tommy John surgery and it could affect the future of his floundering career:
No comment on this score:
Methinks Buzz is just angry and he doesn’t really know why. 
Well, it was a rainy, crappy day out for Opening Day and the Phils pitching looked quite crappy. Brett Myers had a rough first outing, going 5 innings while giving up 4 runs, and Ryan Madson also gave up 2 runs via a homer in only one inning of work. It wasn’t a pretty day for baseball.
Yes, the Main Event of the World Series of Poker is over and a champion has been crowned. Jerry Yang is another complete unknown, following in the footsteps of Chris Moneymaker from 2003, who has never even cashed in a poker tournament. No, he’s not the 
, and Lam shows 
. It’s a race situation, and Lam needs to improve to stay alive. The crowd erupts into chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” and something similar with “Canada! Canada!”
, and half of the ESPN Arena erupts in applause as Tuan Lam flops a pair of queens to take the lead, and he is a big favorite to double up, making this a much closer heads-up match. Yang needs an eight or something runner-runner.
, and Yang picks up a gut-shot straight draw, winning with an eight (for a set) or a six (for a nine-high straight).
! Jerry Yang spikes a six on the river to win the hand — and the 2007 WSOP World Championship — with a nine-high straight. 
My final table rooting interest was 
And now they’re eating dinner. Robert Nehorayan is the first to a million chips. And ladies…I think he’s free. He’s actually had a lot of 
The guy I’m rooting for is Barry Greentsein, who seems to be one of the coolest guys out there giving money to charity, playing great poker, and knowing how to play all of the games.
