For years now, I’ve been operating under the assumption that I could boast the world’s most exhaustive gallery of embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels.

The page is the most popular one on this site, and one of the few accomplishments of which I am wholeheartedly proud. Someday I will retire from blogging, and then years later someone will spot some news item about Cole Hamels and say, “Hey, remember all those embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels that guy collected?” And I am that guy. The embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels, I thought, would be my humble online legacy.

But now, thanks to the diligent work of Patrick Flood, I know I have more work to do. There’s another site on the Internet with even more embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels than I have: ColeHamels.com.

Hamels’ personal website boasts gallery upon gallery of embarrassing photos of the man, enough to prove my suspicion that he is either trolling me or just absolutely does not give a s#$! how he is depicted on the Internet.

I’d prefer not to incur a cease-and-desist from the Hamels Foundation, so I limited myself to four photos grabbed from that site to share in the archive. Go check them out, but really, check out all of Cole Hamels’ galleries — especially this one.

And of course, whenever you come to a detour on the road to your goal — whether that goal be collecting the most embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels or some less noble pursuit — remember these words of wisdom from Hamels’ site and, presumably, high-school yearbook: “It is the journey, not the destination.”

So we beat on.