Cole Hamels Facts

by taiko on Aug 4, 2006 9:08 AM EDT

These are taken from http://colehamelsfacts.com and are ringing pretty true today. This is just a selection to cheer us up. After all, losing to a guy this good hardly even counts ...

Cole Hamels once threw a curve ball so well, the batter's children struck out.

To turn off the lights, Cole Hamels throws a fastball at the lightbulb instead of flicking the switch. It's faster that way.

When Cole Hamels flies to other cities, he feels bad for his teamates because they have to take a plane.

When kids go to bed they wear Superman pajamas; when Superman goes to bed he wears a Cole Hamels jersey.

Cole Hamels knocked down the Berlin Wall. With a change-up.

Cole's birth was covered on This Week in Baseball.

Cole Hamels makes coffee nervous.

When Cole throws three straight balls, he isn't worried, cause he still has two more left.

They tried to name a street after Cole Hamels, but people kept dying at the intersection - no one crosses Cole Hamels and lives.

Cole Hamels was Julia Robert's body double in Pretty Woman. It was the scene where the hooker strikes out 27 consecutive batters during a wiffle ball contest and then beats up 11 rival hookers. The scene was cut from the final by the MPAA because it was too intense for the PG-13 audience.

You can't divide by zero, but Cole Hamels can.

Cole Hamels will win 1 Cy Young... and 11 Cole Hamels

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