How quickly they turn

Per Frank Fitzpatrick of the Philadelphia Inquirer:

"(Cole) Hamels will never be one of us and it's not his fault.

The whiny voice. The fashion-mag looks. He was born with those. In Southern California, no less.

That's all fine for him. But it's grating to us."

"It's easier to imagine him as a waiter in a trendy restaurant ("Hi, I'm Cole. I'll be your waiter. Would you like to hear our specials?"); a dance instructor ("You call that a battement fondue?"); an architect* (If I don't use dentil molding, it could ruin the neoclassical motif.") or a model ("Work it, Cole. Work it!")"

If they keep it up, maybe he will do what anybody else in his situation would do** and file for free agency when he is eligible and then the city can finally be rid of this guy they perceive as a problem. ("Get out of here already guy!")

*I have never thought of architects as wimpy guys but maybe that is just me. They design big and strong buildings, don't they?

**"That crap was hard enough for two years. They expect way too much." Billy Wagner on Philly fans.

The City of Brotherly Love

David Wells has an article in the New York Post where he says this about Phillies fans:

"When I was in Philadelphia earlier this postseason with Cal Ripken Jr., Dennis Eckersley and Ernie Johnson for TBS, we got booed. We were just doing our show out in center field and people were walking by saying 'You fat piece of (bleep)....Tell Cal he's gay....Ernie Johnson sucks.' We're doing the game and TBS stuff and these Phillies fans are just f-bombing us to death. They are angry people."

He later goes on to describe an NFL game he went to in Philadelphia between the Eagles and the Bucs:

"Tampa won the game and advanced to the Super Bowl and we were walking to the car, and people were throwing bottles, breaking car windows, and kicking car doors."

This sounds like post-apocalyptic Thunderdome in those Mad Max movies if you ask me.

Is Queen Tina Turner with that mohawk around somewhere directing these people?

Do they have an arena out back where gladiators fight and the blood-thirsty crowd chants, "Two men enter, one man leaves?"

What's with this place?

You know, Philly might be a cool place to visit for a day or two if you want to get your freak on but I don't know if I would want to live there.

Just sayin.