No confrontation between Myers and Hamels

There is a rumor running around that Brett Myers confronted Cole Hamels about his comments the other day regarding his 2009 season and him wanting it to be over. Philly.com writer Andy Martino does a good job in clearing it all up. It didn’t happen.

“There was no confrontation whatsoever,” Myers told me when reached by telephone this morning.

The version related in separate conversations with Myers and Phillies director of baseball communications Greg Casterioto was this: Myers was ready to leave last night, and was looking for Hamels in the locker room. A common inside joke when a Phillie is looking for a teammate is to say, “He quit,” (as in, “where’s so and so?” “Oh, he quit,” or “hey, there you are. I thought you quit”–and as someone who has been around that team all year, I’ve heard that joke many times.) and Myers dropped the line on Hamels when he saw the lefty at his locker. Hamels responded with a lighthearted expletive.

Myers said he was totally unaware of Hamels’ comments two days earlier. “I had no idea there was even a story going around about this,” he said. “We’re friends. There is no problem.”

Casterioto, who witnessed the entire non-event—and said that at least two prominent television reporters were also there and heard the brief exchange without feeling that it was newsworthy—called the idea of tension between Myers and Hamels “ludicrous.”