Further Evidence That Mike Lowell is One Cool Cat

Yesterday Mike Lowell was back in Boston to do a photo-shoot and to attend the Boston Baseball Writers Association of America dinner. At the dinner he received Thomas A. Yawkey Award for the most valuable player and Tommy McCarthy Good Guy Award. He also gave an interview that further convinced me of his awesome-ness.

From the Globe:

"It has to be 100 percent accurate, because if it's 99 percent accurate, there are going to be seven false positives in big league baseball, and what if those names are one of the major names? You've scarred that person's career for life. You can't come back and say, 'Sorry, we've made a mistake,' because you just destroyed that person's career."

See? Craig Breslow being the obvious exception, how many professional baseball players out there could tell you that one percent of seven hundred and fifty was 7.5? (He does seem to think that there are seven hundred baseball players spread over the thirty teams and not seven hundred and fifty but we'll ignore that for now.) I'd wager that it's not many; especially as the problem was presented as less ninety-nine percent. He then goes on to display further mad math skills:

"Some people have said 90 percent [accuracy]. That's 70 [false positives]. That's three full rosters."

If you go with his assumption that there are seven hundred major league ballplayers, then his numbers check out. Of course, if you divide those seventy ballplayers over three teams, as he suggests, then a full roster in Mike Lowell-land has twenty-three and one third players on it. But that's okay. Perhaps he's just toeing the union line but Exhibit A: Mike Lowell can (mostly) do math!

Also:

"I got to shoot an ad today with Rene Russo. I don't think that if I went 1 for 17 in the Series I would have gotten the same chance. It was awesome. I didn't have to do anything. Rene played a fan and did all the work."

When reminded of his White House dinner:

"Oh, yeah, the White House, pretty cool, but I don't think George Bush will be hugging me."

Exhibit B: He's got a wonderfully dry sense of humor, at least I've attributed one to him.

I spent quite a bit of time trying to decide if that last one had political connotations but have decided that he must have spent the morning with Rene Russo hanging off him.

More Exhibit B:

[Regarding Josh Beckett] "He's great. He's doing his thing in Texas, whatever it is he does."

Hee!