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Saturday, May 10, 2008
San Francisco, Day 2: Mathieson surgery, etc.

Good morning, Day 2 in San Francisco.

No paper tomorrow, so you'll have to rely on the inter-web for your Phillies fix (I guess you could check out one of the other paper's too, but who'd want to do that??)

Word out of the ballpark today is that Scott Mathieson will likely have a third surgery on his right (throwing) elbow. Assistant general manager Ruben Amaro indicated last week that would probably be the case. Mathieson's never fully recovered from Tommy John surgery a year and a half ago. It's a shame. He's a really likeable kid. Not that it's not a shame if you aren't likeable. But Mathieson was really pumped up this spring training to get back on the mound. That said, he's only 24, so he's still got time ahead of him.

Other brief morning notes. . .

Short stop Omar Vizquel is expected to re-join the Giants today. . .

Jamie Moyer will be the sixth straight lefty the team has faced. They are 0-5 in the first five games, including last night's loss to Cole Hamels. . .

Jimmy Rollins said last night his mother is handling all ticket requests. So if your brother's friend's mother's cousin-in-law twice removed's mailman once used to deliver packages to the Rollins residence in Alameda, you'll have to get in touch with Mama J-Roll if you want to score some tickets. . .

Asked last night if there was anything he didn't do in his return, Rollins responded, "Hit a triple." He finished one hit shy of the cycle. Though I think Charlie Manuel will forgive him. . .

Anyone in Philly want to explain what happened to the Fly Guys last night? I guess Pittsburgh is all Pengin'ed Up for this series. . .

 What do you all think of the newly re-designed Philly.com? I think it's pretty fresh, though nothing is fresher than the signature on my pay-check, so as long as the powers that be keep kickin' those dollars into my bank account every Friday, I'm down with whatever they want to do in cyber space.  I forgot that the re-design was going down and I thought I had reached the wrong web site by mistake this morning. It's kind of weird being on West Coast time: At the start of last night's game, my blog looked one way. By the end, the new design changes had taken hold. It wasn't until esteemed Daily News columnist and renowned Reinaissance Man Rich Hoffman reminded me of the changes this morning that I realized what had happened.

Any thoughts?

 

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Posted by Mark1npt 10:09 PM, 05/10/2008
Don't like it.....
Posted by yahmpy 08:18 AM, 05/11/2008
not a big fan of the new set-up. I would like to know what stories are the new stories without having to click on every one of them to check the dates. anyhow, how about this gem from Sunday morning's New York Post, Mike Vaccaro's column: "Let's just say that when you see Bobby Abreu inching toward the right-field wall, the first image that jumps to mind isn't exactly William Wallace charging at the English army."
Posted by dksurf 08:47 AM, 05/11/2008
Format change...the key word there is "change." Most folks don't like change and that's probably amplified even moreso with us Philly sports reading neanderthals...Flyers Friday night - they were just continuing their '08 playoff trend of losing game one only to come roaring back (I hope, I hope).
Posted by djgibboni 09:40 AM, 05/11/2008
" other paper's " ??? Since when do you pluralize with apostrophes?
Posted by calm weather 11:02 AM, 05/11/2008
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I suggest the apostrophe is simply one letter too early and he left out the word "sites". On the philly.com site change, I don't like it because now we all have to click through two to four pages to read an article so we can ignore all the extra ads they want to put on the peripheries of the pages. There are some columnists on this site for which I did not need additional incentive to not read their stuff. Extra clicks and clutter make it more likely I won't. In the end, it means fewer ads I will view than in the former format when they lined a single page and the sooner I'll be clicking over to the opposing team's home newspaper site to get a fresher perspective on the Philly teams (e.g. I read about Mathieson's likely surgery two or three weeks ago in Stark's ESPN column.)
Posted by rockinrob 01:31 PM, 05/11/2008
I like the new format with the exception that your mug is still visible. Could they not get an actor to sit in and pretend to be you. Everytime I see your pic I want to cut the cheese. Eegads.
Posted by Dull 08:42 AM, 05/12/2008
Nice report on the minor league strikeout pitchers in the Phils system. That Lakewood team Naylor is on is loaded. Just about every starting position player exept second base will play at the final level some day and Naylor and Sampson will start at the Bank. Very unusual to have at least 10 major league prospects on one minor league team at the same time.
Posted by Stevis 12:59 PM, 05/12/2008
No opinions on the overall site layout -- I'm just happy they finally murdered that ridiculous logo. It looked like some kind of one-eyed undersea worm, and the splattered-paint look went out in 1990.
Posted by Ray 02:07 PM, 05/12/2008
I dont like the new look either.
Posted by conkyfilms 08:18 PM, 05/14/2008
Redesign is an unprecedented failure. It's like the Hindenberg crashed into an Edsel in the middle of Three Mile Island. But uglier.
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About David Murphy
David Murphy joined the Daily News as its Phillies beat writer in February of 2008. Born in Upper Merion and raised in the Poconos, he attended college at La Salle University before taking jobs with the Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Sun-News and the St. Petersburg ( Fla. ) Times.
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