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OH SNAP!

Ruben Amaro – proving once again that on-field success is not commensurate with how often you speak to the media – told reporters today that while he had no problem with Cole Hamels’ comments about wanting to play for a winner (not the Phillies), he would’ve preferred if Cole phrased things differently.

Here’s the full quote, with context, from David Murphy:

“Maybe I would have liked for him (Cole) to have chosen his words a little differently, but it’s totally understandable,” Amaro said. “Cole wants to win. I think everyone is on kind of the same page – we all want to win. And we’re going to try to wi as many baseball games as we possibly can. And i think the tone gets started right here in spring training. I think that Ryno is right. A lot of things have to fall right for us to be a contender this year, but that doesn’t mean we don’t try to win every single baseball game when we go on the field.”

[That’s compared to “I would’ve chosen my words better” and Hamels should “Maybe choose his words a little better,” courtesy of Howard Eskin and Meghan Montemurro, respectively. The word “better” is nowhere to be found in Murphy’s transcription. Why is this so difficult, guys?]

Still, where, on this green planet called Earth, does Rube get off saying anything about Hamels’ choice of words, when it’s Amaro who has spent basically the entire offseason hawking his players like commodities on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and told Ryan Howard the team would be better off without him? If anyone has a legit right to openly pine for a trade, it’s Hamels, who is smack dab in the middle of his peak.

The HOT TAKE today is over whether you’re supposed to be OK with Hamels’ comments, but Jesus H. Christ, how could you not be? Yet another day of the media being completely clueless about how fans feel. This is Amaro’s fault, not Hamels’s’s’s’s’. Hell, I want out, too, for a little while. I have nipples, Rube, can you trade me?