2009 Philadelphia Phillies - Season's Over, Time to Move On

[Sgt PSN]

[myers]boom.  outta here[/myers]

[PhillyPhreak54]

From Phils Mb:

John Clark is on WIP and he is saying the story is way off. He said Victorino is the one who said that to Hamels, but he said it facetiously and was just busting his chops, and Myers was already with the team official in the clubhouse, he wasn't escorted out.

Also, Myers was walking by Hamels being interviewed and said he thought Hamels quit for the night(meaning went home already).

[Seabiscuit36]

John Clark will forever be known for this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWHddNQbI8

[PhillyGirl]

LOL

"Anything that doesn't involve getting better is like background noise to him," Phillies reliever Chad Durbin(notes) said. "It's like, 'Oh, I have to eat. Crap. I'm not going to get that extra five minutes of video because I'm going to have to throw this peanut butter and jelly down.' "

About Grit.

[PhillyGirl]

heh

Touch 'Em All: Hamels: Not enough Philly in him
POSTED: November 2, 2009

By Frank Fitzpatrick

This will come as no surprise to anyone who watched Cole Hamels pitch or answer questions Saturday night - or any other night - but the Phillies lefthander might be the most un-Philly Philadelphia athlete ever.

Mike Schmidt was an enigma, too, but at some level he understood us and, eventually, we grasped him. Ditto Randall Cunningham and many others who have passed through but never left their hearts in South Philadelphia.

Hamels will never be one of us and it's not his fault.

The whiny voice. The fashion-mag looks. He was born with those. In Southern California, no less.

That's all fine for him. But it's grating to us.

The boos Saturday. The gradual disillusionment. It was inevitable. The only way Hamels was going to stay in the city's good graces was if he continued to pitch his butt off.

Philly likes its pasta sauce red, its milk shakes black and white, and its sports heroes blue-collar.

The fans love it when someone who can play reminds them of a stevedore (Brian Dawkins), a steamfitter (Pete Rose), or a sanitation worker (Lenny Dykstra).

Hamels, it's always apparent, makes his living with his arm, not his hands.

It's easier to imagine him as a waiter in a trendy restaurant ("Hi, I'm Cole. I'll be your waiter. Would you like to hear our specials?"); a dance instructor ("You call that a battement fondue?"); an architect ("If I don't use dentil molding, it could ruin the neoclassical motif."); or a model ("Work it, Cole. Work it!").

When a guy like that fails in a town like this, it could get ugly.

[PhillyGirl]

You know that story. Burnett started a new Yankees tradition earlier this summer, sneaking up from behind and crushing a pile of whipped cream into the face of a heroic teammate during a postgame television interview. The fans absolutely swooned for it. And who could blame them? Look! The Yankees like to have fun just like real human beings!

Um...reallly? How many years now have the Phillies been doing this?

[Sgt PSN]

You know that story. Burnett started a new Yankees tradition earlier this summer, sneaking up from behind and crushing a pile of whipped cream into the face of a heroic teammate during a postgame television interview. The fans absolutely swooned for it. And who could blame them? Look! The Yankees like to have fun just like real human beings!

Um...reallly? How many years now has the rest of baseball been doing this?

[Rome]

Um...reallly? How many years now have the Phillies been doing this?

Too many.

[PhillyGirl]

You know that story. Burnett started a new Yankees tradition earlier this summer, sneaking up from behind and crushing a pile of whipped cream into the face of a heroic teammate during a postgame television interview. The fans absolutely swooned for it. And who could blame them? Look! The Yankees like to have fun just like real human beings!

Um...reallly? How many years now has the rest of baseball been doing this?

I guess it just ain't cool, new or innovative...if you're not the Yankees.

[Rome]

kill dogs = POS

beat women = firery

She had it coming and so do you for misspelling 'fiery'. 

[ice grillin you]

yeah i deserve it...i knew it was wrong but dont know how to spell it and didnt feel like looking it up

[bowzer]

Did anyone post about Larry Bowa claiming that we may videotape signals, which is why the Yankees take so many breaks with their catchers...

Larry Bowa.. you bitter old farg

[Sgt PSN]

lol.  omgspygatezrhappeningz!!

there's no need for the phils to video tape any signals since fox likes to zoom in on posada's scrote everytime he calls a pitch. 

there's really no need for it in baseball at all though.  the cf camera overlooking the picture gives a clear enough view what the catcher is calling even without zooming all the way in like fox does. 

[reese125]

the camera is a necessity--how else will we know what correct pitch tim mccarver gives us the heads up on

[MDS]

sign stealing? its a part of baseball. if you get away with it, great. if you caught, great. everyone tries to do it.