Cole Hamels

[CradleRobber]

He sure is throwing VERY WELL against the Astros right now.

 

[Oz]

Easy to see where this thread is going ...

 

[CradleRobber]

Dellucci just homered to give the Phillies a 1-0 lead.

 

[part-timer]

You had to feel bad for the kid who dropped Ryan Howard's "double". FOX had a couple shots of him in tears.

 

[CradleRobber]

It's driving me crazy that I have to watch it unfold on Yahoo! GameChannel because I won't have any television channels until the Comcast guy shows up "between 1 and 5."

 

[beefncheddar]

Exactly. Ryan Howard's "double".

He sat for awhile that inning. Will be interesting to see what he does here against 4-5-6. He's also already up to 83 pitches.

 

[beefncheddar]

Broken up. And it probably wouldn't have mattered, because he was up to 100 pitches in the 7th inning.

 

[21]

Damn you, Adam Everett.

 

[part-timer]

Exactly. Ryan Howard's "double".

He sat for awhile that inning. Will be interesting to see what he does here against 4-5-6. He's also already up to 83 pitches.

Sorry, I was channeling my inner-Conlin when Howard was up. I know he's over 100 pitches, but methinks he needs to go nine innings.

 

[CradleRobber]

I added Hamels from waivers as soon as I heard about him this season, and will definitely draft him and Chad Billingsley in the early rounds next season.

One of my favorite baseball quotes:

Adam Dunn, who was 0-for-1 with a walk versus Hamels, was tired of hearing about Hamels before he faced him. "Geez, you can't help but hear about it," Dunn said. "I hear he's the next Cy Young. What did he have, a minus-7 ERA in the minors? We were scared to death … Why don't they pay him $150 million, tell him thanks for all you've done, send him home and put him in the Hall of Fame right now?"

 

[beefncheddar]

No biggie, part-timer. From the sounds of things on Gameday Audio (stuck with NYY-Bos here), it was definitely gone.

And Brad Lidge is getting destroyed by the bottom of the Phils' order. Houston fans are all over him.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Yeah, the kid ain't bad.

I couldn't pry Hamels off waivers but was offered him via trade, er, heist in the SportsJournalists.com "Some Idiots" League. (Hi shotglass! )

 

[shotglass]

Heh-heh.

I watched his first start and saw that he had not-your-usual-everyday stuff. The type of stuff you even notice from the center-field camera.

 

[Space Monkey]

I have Hamels on my fantasy team, so his performance today makes me feel better after not starting Ben Sheets the other day (I forgot to switch my pitchers.)

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

Nobody's mentioned www.colehamelsfacts.com yet?

 

[shotglass]

I'm dyin' here.

So far, the best: "Cole Hamels once pegged a batter so hard that the batter's twin brother died. He then ate their corpses, pooped them out and struck that out too."

 

[wickedwritah]

"For Halloween, Chuck Norris went as Cole Hamels."

 

[shotglass]

"Cole Hamels once threw a ball so fast that nobody on the Earth could hit it. The pitch ended up orbiting the solar system, striking out creatures from other planets as well. The ball is now referred to as Cole's Comet and has Martians wondering, "Can Cole Hamels throw a ball so fast that it can strike himself out?" Upon hearing this question, Cole Hamels threw another fastball at Mars causing the planet to blow up on impact; forever teaching the universe not to question the awesome powers of Cole Hamels."

 

[rgd]

"Cole Hamels once threw a ball so fast that nobody on the Earth could hit it. The pitch ended up orbiting the solar system, striking out creatures from other planets as well. The ball is now referred to as Cole's Comet and has Martians wondering, "Can Cole Hamels throw a ball so fast that it can strike himself out?" Upon hearing this question, Cole Hamels threw another fastball at Mars causing the planet to blow up on impact; forever teaching the universe not to question the awesome powers of Cole Hamels."

Bravo.

 

[CradleRobber]

I think this has to be my favorite:

"68. Cole Hamels will win 1 Cy Young... and 11 Cole Hamels."

Goes well with Dunn's quote, too.