Hamels: Mets have been 'choke artists'

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Hamels: Mets have been 'choke artists'

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Updated: December 11, 2008, 5:56 PM ET
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As World Series champions, the Philadelphia Phillies have earned the right to flaunt such status. Pitcher Cole Hamels might have gone a little overboard, and at the expense of the team's bitter rival, no less.


For the past two years they've been choke artists.
-- Cole Hamels
In an interview on New York sports talk station WFAN on Thursday, Hamels, the World Series MVP, responded in the affirmative when asked if he thought the Mets were "choke artists."

"Last year and this year I think we did believe that [they were choke artists]," Hamels told the station, alluding to the Phillies winning the NL East in 2008 and '07, in part, with the help of back-to-back September collapses by New York. "Three years ago we didn't because they smoked everybody, and I think we all thought they were going to win it all. Unfortunately that didn't happen."

[JamStone]

Not even controversial.

It's not like he's just saying it out of the blue just to spite the Mets and their fans. It's not like Sean Avery with his "sloppy seconds" comment initiating the topic and calling attention to himself for no reason. If he was doing an interview, say with Jim Rome, and Rome didn't bring up the Mets and he made the comment off-topic saying something like, "oh yeah, I'm not a choke artist like the Mets," then there might be something newsworthy about the comment. But, that doesn't appear to be the case. He was on a New York radio station and was asked a question about the topic. I think it's fine what he said.

And, most Mets fans and even Mets players agree with him anyway.

[BRHornet45]

well he spoke 100% truth. no shame

[ducks]

mets have a closer
mets will not choke this year

[T Park]

Mets have a closer who was always on the edge of blowing games.

Add to the pressure of being in new york and I think K-Rod will be a huge bust.

[JamStone]

Always being on the edge of blowing games is actually an upgrade for the Mets bullpen though.

[ClingingMars]

mets have a closer
mets will not choke this year

mets have HAD a closer, he's just been injured. now they have 2.

as for Hamels, him. can shut his mouth, as if we Mets fans haven't suffered enough already.

-Mars

[Kermit]

Please point out where Hamels was wrong. Mets = Choke. Nothing controversial about that. Closer or no closer.

[Reggie Miller]

Please point out where Hamels was wrong. Mets = Choke. Nothing controversial about that. Closer or no closer.

The central irony is that the Phillies' equal tendency to choke kept Atlanta in the driver's seat for an extra two to three years.

[ClingingMars]

Please point out where Hamels was wrong. Mets = Choke. Nothing controversial about that. Closer or no closer.

doesn't give him the right to ing say it over WFAN.

-Mars

[Kermit]

doesn't give him the right to ing say it over WFAN.

-Mars

You're right. Someone should notify the authorities.

[gaKNOW!blee]

When you win the NLCS MVP and WS MVP....you do and say what the you want. If Cole wants to go out and kill women and children, you ing let him.