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.