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."
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ESPN.com news services
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."
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