So, thinking waaay back to an early screen from EA's production meeting,(there was a video of Ian introducing the team, and it was a still shot from the vid) there was a whiteboard and the word "Hammond" lined out. I assumed that to mean Hammond's lines were already recorded, but others guessed right in that it meant Hammond was out for M11.
Good job to the OS'ers who caught it and got it right!
i wonder if that was the way Hammond found out he was 69'd, by watching that vid?