Cole Hamels, Brett Myers Apparently Did Not Exchange Words After Game 5

Here’s a redux to our earlier post this morning about a confrontation between Cole Hamels and Brett Myers.

Andy Martino of Philly.com disputes Yahoo!‘s Tim Brown’s report that the two got into a verbal slap fight. Martino says Hamels and Myers are totes besties for life (TBFLs) and would never fight with each other:

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 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." […]

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

Alright, fine: Maybe there wasn’t a fight between the two. But this now raises a whole new line of questioning: Why is Cole Hamels friends with a guy like Brett Myers? Seems like an odd pairing of pretty likable and totally insufferable.

Nick Swisher and Johnny Damon … now there’s a pair that make sense as TBFLs.