Did anyone know there was a tempest in a teapot recently regarding comments Cole Hamels made to the media? Apparently, Hamels said to some reporter at some point that if the Phillies were no longer in the race when he recovered from his elbow soreness, he wanted to just shut it down and come back next spring. (This is all moot today, of course.)

Now, since I get all my Phillies news from this website and philly.com, I didn't even know that Hamels had made these comments. But I was talking to a WIP-listening friend over the weekend, and he was totally incensed about it. I also heard Mitch Williams bring it up last night on the Comcast postgame show.

It seems that the WIP folk may have been beating the drums about this comment for several days, and how it showed a lack of heart, lack of loyalty, lack of guts, and so on and so forth. To me, the comment sounds perfectly reasonable, but hey, it's not like "reason" is really all that relevant here. Philly has a long history of turning on its stars. Hopefully, this isn't the beginning of history repeating itself.