<strong><span class="subhead">He said what?</span></strong></p><p>Cole Hamels is already looked at as a flake by many in this proudly blue-collar city, so he sure didn&rsquo;t win any fans when he told reporters after getting hit around in game three that &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t wait for it to end.&rdquo;</p><p>Not exactly what you want to hear from the guy who was last year&rsquo;s World Series MVP and &mdash; now tentatively &mdash; lined up to start game seven if the Series goes that far.</p><p>Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said he was surprised to hear Hamels&rsquo; comments, and doesn&rsquo;t understand what his pitcher was trying to say. Mostly, Manuel says he sees a young, talented pitcher dealing with real adversity for the first time in his career.</p><p>&ldquo;I still think all that is there, and he&rsquo;ll get back there (to being a top-notch pitcher),&rdquo; Manuel said. &ldquo;And I think this is something new to him. Every guy goes through it.&rdquo;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Howard near strikeout record</span></strong></p><p>Ryan Howard entered Sunday&rsquo;s game four two for 13 with nine strikeouts in the World Series, already just three away from Willie Wilson&rsquo;s record of 12 strikeouts in a series set in 1980.</p><p>Jimmy Rollins has suggested Howard&rsquo;s struggles are mental. Manuel sees Howard&rsquo;s balance off, partly because he&rsquo;s getting pitched especially tough.</p><p>&ldquo;They were flirting with the area that&rsquo;s either right on the plate or just a little bit off,&rdquo; Manuel said. &ldquo;If you go back and look, they&rsquo;ve been pitching him real good and when you do that and he falls behind in the count, it&rsquo;s hard to hit.&rdquo;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Jeter wins Aaron award</span></strong></p><p>Derek Jeter won the AL Hank Aaron Award, which is supposed to go to the league&rsquo;s best offensive player.</p><p>Jeter had a good season &mdash; .334 with 18 homers, 66 RBIs, 107 runs and 30 stolen bases &mdash; but it&rsquo;s a peculiar choice considering he didn&rsquo;t lead the league in any category. He was 21st in the American League and fifth on his own team in OPS.</p><p>Joe Mauer, meanwhile, won what some call the modern triple crown, leading the AL in batting, on-base and slugging percentage.</p><p>Albert Pujols won the NL&rsquo;s award.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">A first for two cities</span></strong></p><p>According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this was the first time that World Series and NFL games matching teams from the same two cities were played in the same city on the same day. That includes the old AFL, too.</p><p>It&rsquo;s the third time in the last six years that a World Series and NFL game were played in the same city on the same day.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Etc.</span></strong></p><p>&bull;Fox&rsquo;s World Series ratings are up more than 40 percent from last year, though that&rsquo;s mostly a factor of the Yankees replacing the Rays.</p><p>&bull;MLB made Fox move the camera in right field so that it no longer hangs over part of the playing area.</p><p>&bull;One night after Mike Schmidt had the honors, Steve Carlton threw out the first pitch before game four.