Why Stephen Strasburg is so cool

I hate when i really like a song, or video game, or something like that, and then it gets obnoxiously overdone/overplayed. It happened with Blink 182, it happened with Pokemon, and my God, it's happening with Stephen Strasburg.
This is one of the coolest stories inn baseball, i think. A team like the nationals is finally getting something to be excited about, and the kid has not disappointed yet. But I hate the way ESPN is giving him the Brett Favre treatment now, and even my beloved MLB Network had a countdown in the corner of the screen today for how many hours were left until his third start. His first start I can understand, but his 3rd? yeesh. I hope Hazel Mae didn't have anything to do with that one. it was probably Mitch Williams, he's silly like that.
But the off the field hoopla that surrounds him isn't why I think he's so cool. I think he's so cool because I watched his first two starts, and he is just a really really good pitcher. That's pretty much what it comes down to. He is human, he makes some mistakes, and then he adjusts to them. he just has some nasty nasty pitches that I have a feeling some of our hitters are not going to even see go by them. His velocity is awesome, his control is awesome, and i already know it from watching the actual games, not by watching the constant lovefest he gets from the networks. I think he's worth talking about in this blog once, but i'm not going to write about it every single day. He just happens to be playing against the Sox tonight, so i figured it was worth mentioning. I think we are all smart enough baseball fans for us to see for ourselves what he can do, so so let's just enjoy one of this year's coolest stories and leave it at that, ok?
Now, onto another cool baseball story, the White Sox finally turning things around!
As I said in earlier posts, i think the Sox have ben playing some great baseball, whether the Pirates just plain suck or not. We took advantage of their mistakes, and played the way we were supposed to against them. Good pitching, good hitting, and Bobby Jenks closing it out. I was very excited.
Now tonight we have o face the aforementioned Strasburg, and obviously it's going to be tough. Not only do we usually have problems with pitchers we have never faced before, but this pitcher is much better than the other new faces we've seen. I was originally looking forward to Buehrle going against him (would have been about an hour and a half long lol), but because of unforseen Peavy injury we get Gavin going tonight. I still think it's a good matchup, as Gavin is coming off of a stellar start against the Cubs.
I'm also interested to see if Viciedo plays at all tonight, as he was called up from Charlotte and Jayson Nix has gotten the boot. Probably for the best, as Nix just couldn't seem to get things going after that pinch-hit grand slam when he came in for Mark Teahen and his broken finger (I still haven't heard when he's coming back, either...hmm...). Viciedo looked good during spring training, so we'll see if that's an improvement from the struggling Nix. It will be weird seeing another infielder with the number 24 though...^^;
This will be very fun to watch and I hope the Sox can beat this kid! My pick to click tonight shall be...Paulie.