Motorin'!

Every now and again you'll see an uncommon face in the press box. Thursday, Mr. Terry Toohey will be filling in for me as I hightail it for Fort Lauderdale. And today we have a special appearance by Inquirer Flyers beat writer Tim Panaccio. Tim's a great guy. Furthermore, he is a dead-ringer for Alfred Molina's
Rahad Jackson character in "Boogie Nights," one of the great movies of our time.
If you need a refresher on which character that is, it's the drug lord who is rockin' out to "Sister Christian" in his robe and skivvies while his Asian friend is freaking out Dirk Diggler and Co. by tossing fire crackers every 10 seconds. Anyway, one of the photos to the right is Tim, and the other is Rahad - but I'm not telling you which is which (and I would not assume that Tim doesn't have a gun - and chest hair).

As for the Phillies, there will be no Chase Utley in the lineup. As Pat Gillick mentioned last week, the fractured hand is an injury that will require the second baseman to take an occasional day off to rest it and let the healing process continue. He'll get it tonight against left-hander Oliver Perez, then play in Thursday afternoon's series finale.

The lineup:

Rollins SS
Iguchi 2B
Burrell LF
Howard 1B
Rowand CF
Werth RF
Ruiz C
Nunez 3B
Moyer P