Mike Lowell = Derek Lowe?
You might think it would be hard to confuse this guy:
With this guy:
But you would be wrong.
Mike Lowell was at last night’s Gonzaga-Utah college basketball game as a guest of his buddy (and former Marlin) Mike Redmond, catcher for the Twins. Redmond went to Gonzaga and is a huge Zags fan– and so he asked Lowell to stop in and speak to the team in the locker room after the game. Whatever Lowell said must have been pretty awesome, because the Seattle papers reported his “speech was greeted with cheers” by the team.
But the hilarity came during the game. Mike and Mike sat together right behind the Zags’ bench- and word spread around amongst the spectators and players that there was a big-time baseball player in their midst. This caused some confusion for Gonzaga basketball player- and avid baseball fan- David Pendergraft (”Pendo”). Fellow Zags player Matt Bouldin said:
It’s funny, right before the game Pendo was saying, ‘Derek Lowe is sitting right behind our bench.’ I’m like, ‘Where?’ I’m looking for two minutes and I don’t see him. Later I heard the announcement that it was Mike Lowell.I said, ‘Pendo, it’s Mike Lowell,’ and he’s like, ‘Ahhh, sorry.’ Pendo’s a baseball fan. I expected a lot more out of him.
I’m pretty positive this is the first time someone has ever mistaken Mike Lowell for Derek Lowe. Just don’t tell Alyssa Milano about this.
Ha, that’s hillarious! Maybe since the beginning of Lowell is “Lowe” and they both play/played for Boston, he somehow just got the names confused…because there is no way in hell any normal-sighted person could confuse them for one another based on appearance.
hahahahaha. The Alyssa Milano comment was the best. But now you can’t tell Beckett about this post. So sad.
I think someone needs to come up with lists of Becketts exes and Alyssa Milano’s exes. Those would be pretty damn long.
Derek Lowe has the same birthday as I do.
But that’s hilarious–and I once again want to say a huge THANK YOU for the awesome calendar idea. :)
Alyssa Milano maintains that she and Beckett never dated.
http://alyssa.mlblogs.com/alyssa/2007/10/an-open-letter-.html
If what she says is true, how did it come to be so widely accepted… I mean, I heard about it a LONG time before she posted that.
So there you go, for what it’s worth.
Sure, it can be easy to confuse them, as they both have a habit of beating the Yankees in clutch games.
I can definitely get behind that line of reasoning, Q.
Maybe they confused Mike Redmond with D Lowe