We read the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Social Circuit" so you don't have to: More than 400 guests and 100 dogs attended the Pennsylvania SPCA's third annual Good Dog Gala held Feb. 21 at the Loews Philadelphia. Among the honorees were Jennifer Utley, Barbara Paul, All Things Pawssible, and Yaron Prope...

Angelo and Rhea were down in Clearwater this morning when Chase Utley made what seemed like a surprise appearance. After Cataldi finishes spewing random nothings, Utley gets into some talk regarding his hip. "It does feel really good. I've spent a lot of time this off season trying to get it better....

Sat Feb 14th 2009 After having right hip surgery on November 24, many expected Chase Utley to be out until at least May or June, missing the first couple months of the season. The surgery, which repaired torn cartilage and a bony lesion, spurred much of the Phillies early offseason activity, resulti...

A few links for Wednesday night... According to The Sports Network, the Brewers signed minor leaguers Eduardo Morlan and Cody Scarpetta to one year deals. Brian Roberts hasn't given up on working out an extension with the O's, according to Roch Kubatko of MASN Sports. Kubatko writes "it's prett...

Hip injury? What hip injury? And look at the new 'do on our fearless leader. Where's the slicked back Wolfman look? Also, boy does Charlie Manuel have some balls or what? First photos of Spring from Philly.com's gallery. Also of note, the Zo Zone has reappeared over at MLB.com. So bookmark TZ. Jim S...

Now that A-Rod's been outed as a 2003 steroid user, many are wondering when the other 103 names on that not-so-mysterious list will be revealed. Would any player's name surprise you? Now, this is only a hypothetical list — none of these players have been accused or are even rumored to be on th...

I had a brilliant idea the other day, which happens quite a bit. But unlike most of my mad scientist theories brilliant ideas, this one actually sounded good after I thought about it for a while; so I set it into motion. With the popularity of mock drafts growing and growing, I wanted to put one tog...

If you haven’t been to Mock Draft Central and gotten in a few mock drafts, you need to do that. The data used today is taken from their ADP trend report, which I pulled this morning. Over the last week here are the hitters that are seeing the biggest upward moves in their average draft positio...

This is going to be the shortest list so far as I rank the players by position. Why is that? Well, I’ll answer that, as well as many other questions that I know you all will ask before you can blow up my inbox with hate mail. B.J. Upton is not on this list, he’ll be in the outfield ranki...

Chase Utley's prideful "World Fucking Champions" speech at the Phillies parade could be costly to some local radio and television stations. The meddling FCC is now considering handing out fines for the October 31st slip-up which aired live to most of the Philadelphia area. Of course, the celebratory...