Cole Hamels is usually up before the sun to get in an off-season workout during his family’s annual sojourn to Hawaii, but on Saturday, after a night out with friends, the left-hander actually allowed himself to sleep in.
And he was sleeping soundly, until his phone made that familiar alarm noise now associated with the Amber Alert system.
This wasn’t that.
Instead, Hamels was one of the tens of thousands of people to receive that now infamous false alarm that a ballistic missile was inbound. A call was made to the front desk, where they sensed panic but received no concrete instructions.