LA SUCKS CHODE! ALYSSA MILANO IS A LESBIAN WHORE! MARY HART IS A BITCH! PAT SAJAK TEXTS IN THE WHOLE GAME! LA IS FULL OF CHARACTERS! FUCK EM ALL!!!!

Don’t worry, soon you’ll be off about A-Rod’s juice…

I was disgusted by Cole’s reaction to the botched double play. I hope someone shows him the video so he can see how childish he looked. Not only does he complain to the media about nonsense, but he’s also becoming a bad teammate. You’d think with how much his life has changed in the past year he’d have done a lot of growing up, but all his actions suggest he is regressing.

Cole Hamels is a jerk off. Chan Ho is still a beast. Madson has scared me lately. Chooch and Howard are co-Mr Septembers. See ya.

Cole is such a whiny little bitch. I’m done with believing in him after tonight. His behavior was worse than Schilling throwing the towel over his head in 93. I hope Chase and Jimmy don’t even give him the time of day after that. Fuck what he did last year, as every game goes by it looks more and more like a fluke.

Cole needs to get his head out of his ass…but your heads will all be in his if he goes out there and throws 7 or 8 scoreless in game 4 or 5. Oh well, that’s the way it is. It was a little disrespectful, but the thing’s been blown out of proportion in my mind.

Just drove home from Dodger Stadium.

Went into Enemy Territory wearing my RED PHILLIES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHIRT AND HAT…got a lot of boos from the Blue Beaners.

Some of them were nice, others were drunk, pot smoking, peanut shell and lime throwing bastards.

Overall, going to the ravine reminds me of going to the Vet in the 1970′s, with all those plastic seats and old scoreboards…

Dodgers fans are very disorganized; and don’t pay attention to the game unless there are a lot of baserunners. They’d rather do the WAVE or play with beachballs. Most don’t even know when to applaud for their own team sometimes. They loved chanting
PHILLIES SUCK…even after Raul’s 3 run homer.

Both teams made some pretty basic mistakes; pitching; baserunning—and serving up meatballs. It was anyones game at anytime…made it pretty interesting. It was a good game.

However, I never had a shred of doubt in my mind that the Fightins WEREN’T going to take this one.

I even called ESPN radio in LA and told them that it would be an all red WS.

Never saw Hamels expression. I’m sure he’ll hear about it from his teammates, loud & clear.

GO PHILS!

dear manny,
david ortiz’s team has been eliminated from the playoffs. see if you can borrow some female fertility drugs from him.
-The Beer King

Thus Says the Lord

You’re all making a huge thing about a little bit of frustration shown by Cole. Yeah, he was pissed. He shouldn’t have flashed that look towards the infield. But pitchers do that shit all of the time. I’m sure if you asked Cole or Jimmy or Utley, there are no hard feelings at all. The media loves to play on this shit but it never ever is a factor in the end. It’s disgusting to watch Phillies fans throw one of their best pitchers under the bus.

@Seth K…. Sean Connery would be proud of the Phils

Seth, that’s been all over the internet today. Very funny.

Sure all you Hamels haters, why don’t you just get rid of him, and have someone like Kendrick pitch instead. Let him go somewhere else where he’ll win 3 Cy Youngs, and then you’ll bitch about how the Phils let such a fan favorite leave.

He’s having a down year. It happens all the time with pitchers getting a huge jump in innings, plus the extra month of the postseason (I must have imagined how he was one Ryan Madson pitch away from being the first pitcher ever to go 5-0 in the postseason.) In the offseason, many of the media talked about this being a possibility, but no one wanted to believe it, and when it happened, no one wanted to look at the history. This is one of the best pitchers the Phils have ever developed & he IS still young. The vile I’ve seen about him this year is just crazy.

Oh, and they WON the game, you know.

New Cooch chant-iViva El Senor Octubre!

Chooch Loves October!

” It wasn’t a typical save from Lidge, but it’s good enough.”

Wait, what? His WHIP is like 1.8, he ALWAYS has men on base, and at least one is always a walk. That was the most typical lidge save i have seen.

well you see, russ martin is a big pussy. id love to see victorino round third.. martin would have a bullseye on his vag. ram ‘em Vic, ram ‘em straight in the vag.

eric, i thought these guys got a pass for the next ’5 years’

you’re half right though.. but you’re all over the place

Cole’s a bit of a prima donna, but c’mon. He just went through a whole season where it seemed like he was always one out from turning the corner, and then someone would get totally fooled and break their bat, but the ball would drop down the line and two runs would score. Got to be frustrating.

Plus, he just had a kid. He probably had a decent night’s sleep in months.

“I don’t condone this. But I understand.”

Ya’ll do need to calm down about the Cole thing. I saw it and was a little annoyed, but it really is not as big a deal as it’s being turned into, especially here. Let he who has done no wrong throw the first stone….meaning all this banter about Cole is no different than the “whining, childish antics” that you’re railing him for.

Everyone watching the game had the exact same reaction as Cole. You’re lying if you say you didn’t. Yeah, I understand it’s different because he’s on the field and there’s some unwritten code about not “showing up your team mates.” But it’s clear he had no intention of showing anyone up. He’s an emotional pitcher who is knowingly taking steps to control those emotions when it comes to situations like last night.

In no way is it comparable to Schilling putting the towel over his face. Schilling was a downright dick and had clear intentions to make sure everyone saw it and got the message.

I eagerly await until the next time Cole’s emotions turn into a gem of a game an ya’ll are swingin’ from his nuts again.

On a positive note, CHOOCH COMING THROUGH YET AGAIN!

I find it pretty disgraceful that you cannot buy a RUIZ phillies shirt in the majestic shop or at Modell’s without having it custom made. Seriously?

I’m going to jump on the quasi-Hamels-defending boat here. Obviously, he shouldn’t have had that reaction to the botched DP – but don’t go pretending he’s the only pitcher that does that, I see it all the time even from the most professional of pitchers. A pitcher has a shitload of pressure on him the entire game, and in a big spot like that it’s going to be emotional. (In fact, I’d think the fact that Jimmy and Chase are so good in the field probably made it even more frustrating for Hamels – ‘You guys had to choose now to screw up?’). But I’ll probably never convince anyone who believes he should be tarred and feathered for that otherwise.

However, I do think it’s ridiculous to imply that he let his emotions keep him from pitching a good game. After the non-DP, sure, he gave up a 2-run (not 3-run, whoever said that) HR to Manny, but it was off a good pitch. I really really really hate to give an credit to Manny, but he is, in fact, a good hitter, and not a lot of people would have hit that ball out. It’s not like Cole served him a 88MPH fastball dead center in the strike zone. Or got so flustered he walked in a couple runs.

In short, Cole needs to remember there are cameras on him. And we need to remember that not every game can be a 3-hit shutout.

Also, how about a candidate for the most ridiculous statement made by a TBS announcer: When talking about how good Cole has been against the Dodgers, one of the guys says something along the lines of “Well, it’s every Southern California kids dream to be standing on this mound [at Dodger's Stadium], and Hamels grew up nearby in San Diego.” Yeah, ass, where he was a Padres fan and most likely dreamed of pitching in San Diego. He probably hated the Dodgers!

And before anyone points out ‘Yeah, but he would have dreamed about pitching against his rivals in their home stadium and beating them,’ you know that’s not what that guy meant – the same thing he’d mean if he saidevery East Cost kid dreams of pitching in Yankee Stadium – pitching in the Majors is good in all, but your dream is never complete until you pitch in one of the places that *really* matters: LA, CHI, or NY.

Cole’s reaction to the botched DP was awful. Do you think someone in the clubhouse spoke to him about it? Player? Coach?

This team is such a friggin….TEAM….that I have to think someone would call Cole out and let him know its ok to be frustrated, but another to show up your teammates.

On another note – how about the shitbag Manny staring into our dugout after his HR?!?!?! Me thinks there may a brawl before this series is over.

DP, I swear somebody said something about getting rid of him.

I wept openly when they flashed to Chan Ho in the bullpen and saw THE BEARD WAS IN BLOOM.

I knew we were golden when he got in the game.

Chan Ho without his beard is like cornflake wit out da milk…this is his world, we just a squirrel try’in to get a nut….

100 points to whoever can get this reference.

@ jessem – the not-being-able-to-buy-a-chooch jersey thing is a big suckfest. I went the “have one custom made route” last year for my (now ex) girlfriend, from the Phillies website. They sent me the wrong size – not once, not twice, but THREE times! God damn ridiculous. He keeps up this tear and they’ll have no choice but to make em readily available.

@ James – the beard is king. I felt the same way when I saw it. I knew we were saved.

Chan Ho will carry the pen like he carries the 2×4 on his Birdland shirt.

Chan Ho’s Beard > Dutch Daulton’s comb down

And that is a close one…..

What is with you Polar pillow biting fuckheads?

Everyone knows what Cole is about.
Everyone understands what he can do as a starting pitcher.
Most people understand the kid is 25 years old.

So, what’s the surprise here? The guy clearly strives for perfection which, in and of itself is completely innocent. So he takes a little emotion out on his team mates…he knows they are also capable of perfection, or at least, approaching it.

Chill out.

And to the bone headed pig humpers who seem to think that criticizing Cole’s behavior constitutes “Cole Hating,” I can only tell you to go butt fuck your mother one more time.

F U.

The guy goes out and tries and he tries really hard. Ty Cobb was a total shit bucket as a person, but you’d love to have had him running the bases for your team. Cole’s HUGE PROBLEM is that he grew up as a priveledged California boy…what a travesty.

Oh yeah,

and…

Chooch Ruiz, you Arrrrre the Mannnn.

@jessum+Slocumb

I was annoyed by the same thing. I wanted to get a Ruiz shirt-sey for my gf too since hes always been her favorite player. Didnt really know or ask about the custom made shirt deal tho lol.

@Fayleez
I thought that was a 50 lyric for a second, but realized its: im similar to a squirrel, looking for a slut with a nice butt to get a nut

We need to stop bashing Cole and start bashing Shane for that Bush League play in the first inning. I love Shane. I love his fire, his attitude and his ability but at that moment I was embarrassed. That is something that absolutely should not be happening on this team.

With that said, Phils in 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!

j_romes rulz.

@Fayleez, I remember hearing that on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The Christmas episode with Evander Holyfield.

Just for the record, I would never want to get rid of Cole Hamels. I understand being frustrated and letting out emotion, but it’s still something you don’t want to see again.

How about you have your opinion and I have mine, and we’ll leave it at that.

I actually agree with a lot of the things you say on this blog but if someone doesn’t agree with you, there’s no need to write a a huge post about how people should get over it. People are entitled to their opinions and this issue with Cole Hamels doesn’t have a right or wrong answer.

Maria,

Was Oran “Juice” Jones on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Evander Holyfield?

Because I was referencing his one hit, “Walk’in the Rain.”

No. Incorrect. I would never want Manny on this team. Didn’t even want T.O. on the Eagles. Don’t want Michael Vick on the team now.

I just don’t think that Cole’s “bitchyness” is that much of an issue as he’ll get tired of being that way and grow out of it.

..and, I don’t automatically disregard people who disagree, but I was trying to be light about it with the “coming out of the office” thing. That’s all. Sheesh. It’s amazing how people take what I post so seriously. There should be more than enough whimsy in my posts to clue you people off to the fact that I’m entertaining myself as well as anyone who’ll partake.

Rollins & Werth both said on Todd Z’s blog that they didn’t have a problem with it so that’s all that matters.