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MLB Who's Hot and Who's Not Volume 1

This is my first version of MLB's Who's hot Who's not so enjoy!

HOT!-American League Team

The Boston Red Sox.

The Red Sox are starting to catch fire. After a sweep of the Brewers, they get a no-hitter from cancer survivor Jon Lester and complete a 4 game sweep over the Kansas City Royals. Their offense is starting to make major improvements with David Ortiz out of his April slump, Lowell back from the DL, and Youkilis playing the best he has his whole career. Dice-K and Beckett are pitching great, and they even got former Cy Young Winner Bartolo Colon to look like his old self again. Young pitchers like Jon Lester and Justin Masterson are getting some great playing time and experience. Riding a 7 game winning streak into Oakland, the Sox are looking unstoppable.

Lester's No-Hitter

The first no-hitter of the 2008 MLB season has finally come. Boston Red Sox pitcher John Lester tossed a no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals. The Red Sox won the game 7-0 fueled by the offensive support of Captain Jason Varitek, and of course the phenomenal pitching performance from John Lester. Lester struck out 9 of the Royals and was 2 walks away from a perfect game. This I think will serve as the pizzaz the Red Sox have lacked so far this season, as they have gotten off to a not so usual start in past years.

Whew... That was a close one

Finally the wait is over, the NCAA has finally announced that the CWS is going to remain in Omaha, until at the least 2030. That's a big relief for me and for many other fans of college baseball.

 Pros to the CWS in Omaha: Middle of the country, New Stadium, keeps the tradition going

Cons: Home-field advantage for Nebraska and Creighton, but wherever the Series is placed there's someone bound for home field.

To me though, big relief, and hopefully it will stay in Omaha past 2030.

Carmelo Anthony... How can a guy be that stupid?

As many of you know Carmelo Anthony was arrested early this morning for DUI. Here's a guy, star of the Denver Nuggets, on the brink of the NBA Playoffs, and he's off getting drunk and then driving. How supid can he be. First off he's got all the money in the world, so how easy can it be to hire a driver for not even 1% of what he makes, to drive him wherever he wants whenever he wants. Melo could probably just hire a random person off the streets to do it for a thousand bucks. Plus, his team's fighting for a playoff spot, and how are they supposed to clinch that FINAL spot with one of their key players pulling stupid stuff like this. He should be indefinitely fined for this, and if he's not, he'll just keep doing it. If they don't win on Wednesday, and Golden State takes the 8th seed, I'm putting Melo to the blame.

Another great athlete... Destroyed

As many of you know, Drew Lavender was arrested on Sunday for possession of marijuane*. The senior had fallen to the dark side, instead of maybe, going to the NBA and having a good life. But this only worsens his situation, and this athlete will fall to the bad side. Drew averaged 11 ppg and 4.5 assists this year for Xavier. Apparently when he was pulled over, he was overmassively drunk and disorderly when asked to move to the side of the street. Who knows, if Lavender wasn't caught would he be going to the NBA? Is he still going to the NBA now because if this incident? To me, he's going down a path he shouldn't be on, and to me, that just makes me want to throw up. People hate when incidents like this happen, because if anyone with a sense of mind that had the skills these athletes had, they'd live life and their careers to the fullest.