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Cole Hamels, Scott Kazmir, and Jon Lester are three of the most promising left-handed pitchers in the game today. Lets compare.
COLE HAMELS
Team: Philadelphia Phillies
Date of Birth: December 27, 1983 (age 25)
This year's salary: $4,350,000
Last year's stats: 14-10 with a 3.09ERA, 196 strikeouts
This year's stats: 0-2 with a 9.69ERA, 11 strikeouts
Why he's awesome: The Phillies won the World Series last year and he was the MVP of the series. Plus he's smokin' hot.
SCOTT KAZMIR
Team: Tampa Bay Rays
Date of Birth: January 24, 1984 (age 25)
This year's salary: $6,000,000
Last year's stats: 12-8 with a 3.49ERA, 166 strikeouts
This year's stats: 3-1 with a 3.97ERA, 17 strikeouts
Why he's awesome: Besides that picture? Well he's the ace on a very promising Tampa Bay Ray rotation, although they're in last place in the East right now.
JON LESTER
Team: Boston Red Sox
Date of Birth: January 7, 1984 (age 25)
This year's salary: $1,000,000 (thought he was making more, like $5mil a year)
Last year's stats: 16-6 with a 3.21ERA, 152 strikeouts
This year's stats: 1-2 with a 4.88ERA, 26 strikeouts
Why he's awesome: Uhm, where do I start? He beat cancer, got the win for the clinching game in the 2007 World Series, threw a no-hitter on May 19, 2008...
I'd still choose Jon Lester to be on my team. He is my favorite player on the Sox. All three have very comparable stats and we'll see who is the best of the 3 this season.
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So today I went to the Red Sox/Yankees game. Coming in, the two teams had played two 4 1/2 hr games, both very bizarre but both ending in Red Sox wins. I was assigned to the Cumberland Farms deck. We got there and there wasn't anyone sitting there, which was weird. Then the entire BU hockey team shows up in those stupid uniforms. The worst/best part? Only about 5 of them were there at a time.
Why this was good: I don't want to look at them that much. Also I had an excellent view without anyone in front of me. Since it was BU's "private section" they didn't let anyone else in. YESSSS.
Why this was bad: I don't even want to know how much those seats cost and they were frolicking about Fenway, wasting their opportunity to watch an amazing game. Pshhhh... losers.
Oh yeah, and during the game, JACOBY ELLSBURY STOLE HOME. Like...what? Fenway went absolutely nutso. If you get the chance, definitely find a video of that. It's fantastic. And against the Yankees, it's supersweet. Plus the Red Sox won 4-1. It was a good day at Fenway.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.haha.
It was finally daylight savings here. One less hour to do everything. ahhgh.
For BC Athletics 2008-2009.
BC Men's Hockey and Basketball both ended their respective seasons in heartbreaking losses last night. BC basketball traveled to Minnesota as the #7 seed and was beaten by 17 points by #10 USC.
BC hockey played BU in the Hockey East semifinals. First of all, I had a splitting headache. I had to go to the TD Banknorth Garden's First Aid station for about an hour. Too much noise! I have no idea why I felt like crap. Anyways. It was 1-0 us, then BU scored 3 goals in 44 seconds. THREE GOALS IN FORTY FOUR SECONDS. Holy fucking shit. I came back and Joe Whitney had scored a goal for us making it 3-2. There are two images from that game that are currently cemented in my brain: one is that last shot off of the faceoff with about 5 seconds left. The rebound was batted away by a BU player and they won right there. The second is Brock Bradford's face after we lost. He seriously looked like he had been shot.
I was fortunate enough to go with the pep band in a bus to the Garden, but BU fans were being utterly brutal to us in just the short walk back to the bus. They gave us crap about our basketball team (does BU even have a basketball team?) and the fact that there weren't many BC people there. I hate BU. They will not win a National Championship this year, all their good players will go pro, and we will get them next year. Go UMass Lowell with your awesome jazz I mean pep band.
We still have the Bruins, who I know will pull out of this slump quite gracefully with a win over New Jersey tomorrow. I'm going to the Bruins game on March 31st against the Tampa Bay Lightning. And don't forget about those Red Sox! I'm doing the green team again this year and I'm totally going to 3 games in a span of about 10 days and that's including a Yankees game on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball! So excited. I hope I see Jon Lester pitch again.
I cannot stop listening to the Decemberists' new album the Hazards of Love. It's fucking amazing. Colin Meloy is a mastermind.
Now I'm trying to get started on two nursing papers in a FREEZING study room. I have a mid-term on Tuesday, but that's in my film class so I'm not too worried about it. Tonight I would like to get very drunk.
I hate the Yankees, but I think Derek Jeter is ok. I mean he's a loyal, fair person and he represents that team well. But please GET HIM AWAY FROM DUSTIN PEDROIA. LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING
And look at Jeter's face. What are they, Romeo and Juliet? Jeter being Juliet of course.
SCOTT KAZMIR
