This Tuesday night drama comes after Cincinnati’s Brandon Phillips said this about the St. Louis Cardinals:

“I’d play against these guys with one leg. We have to beat these guys. I hate the Cardinals. All they do is bitch and moan about everything, all of them, they’re little bitches, all of ‘em.

“I really hate the Cardinals. Compared to the Cardinals, I love the Chicago Cubs. Let me make this clear: I hate the Cardinals.”

Somehow I doubt this war is over.  And I’m a lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan.  So Brandon Phillips can suck a big fat one.  I guess being a loser your entire career can make you a bitter sack of shit.

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(Cole Hamels, Douche Extraordinaire)

Following the Phillies’ victory on Monday night to extend the series to Game 6, Brett Myers had some choice words for Cole Hamels in the aftermath of his recent wimpy, diva-like statement concerning his exhaustion and eagerness for the end of the season.  The quick version is that Hamels whined, after failing yet again in Game 3, “I can’t wait for it to end.  It’s been mentally draining.  At year end, you just can’t wait for a fresh start.”

I could see a statement like that coming from a walking catastrophe like Jose Contreras, or from someone whose team failed miserably this year, like the Chicago Cubs, but for fuck’s sake, your team is in the World Series!  AGAIN!!!  FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW!!!

So apparently while in the clubhouse, Myers walked past Hamels’ locker and said, “What are you doing here? I thought you quit.”  Hamels is said to have responded with an expletive, the nature of which I am not aware.  Before things got to fisticuffs, with Hamels trying to make open-hand contact with Myers’ cheek and Myers yanking on Hamels’ bowl-cut, Myers was led away by a team official.

The word is that Hamels’ comments didn’t sit well with many a Phillies teammate, but I guess Myers was the only one with the balls enough to say anything about it.  Hamels tried to explain away the comments by reiterating his “love of the game” and “love [for] for city of Philadelphia,” but it seems clear to me that Hamels is just another prima donna who will take his over-sized paycheck and obscenely long off-season to go sail his humongous yacht around the world while taking baths in beluga semen, or whatever it is rich assholes do with their free time.

Even though he was the World Series and NLCS MVP last year, I think all fans can take solace in the fact that Cole Hamels is only getting more and more average over time.

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Last week, Tampa Bay Rays’ outfielder Carl Craward shouted at fellow Ray Pat Burrell in the clubhouse prior to a game against the Orioles.  According to the Daily News Wire Services:

Crawford, who had two hits for Tampa Bay but was twice caught stealing by Wieters, repeatedly yelled across the clubhouse at the Rays’ designated hitter. Burrell, in his first year with Tampa Bay after 9 with the Phillies, did not respond.

A teammate then stepped in front of Crawford, trying to calm the situation. Crawford was ushered into a side room.

Carl Crawford is probably just pissed that Pat is getting paid $7 million this season to sit on his loser DH ass and get fat!  Besides the fact that Burrell’s statistics have been steadily plummeting since his rebound 2005 season (.281, .258, .256, .250, .230 anyone?), this once most-eligible-bachelor-of-the-MLB has pulled an old fashioned Britney Spears.  I mean, let’s not screw around kids, I don’t know whether to ask for his autograph or stuff an apple in this mouth and tie him to a roasting spit.  Don’t get it?  I’m calling him a fat pig.

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