My Timmy memory is when my wife said she would let him get her pregnant, we have been having trouble ourselves. Hopefully I would have a kid with a blazing fastball, nasty curve, and a change up that makes even the best batters weep!

was his first game of the season
oh wait

And I really hope the voters get it right this time. I will be pretty pissed if Webb or Sabathia win. Santana, I would be disappointed, but it would at least be somewhat justifiable. Still, I’m really really hoping for Timmy and I think he’ll get it.

Bad.

Been a Giants fan for 30 years and I don’t have one.

If Santana gets it I’ll be PO’ed, but probably won’t be inclined to inflict physical violence.

If Webb or Sabathia gets it someone’s dog is getting kicked.

Shall be Timsday. It was written.

Lincewho?

AT BEST

was when Natto jinxed Timmy’s first CG.. then the next start he tried to jinx it again, but failed (aka Timmy succeeded)

I think Lincecum will win as long as turn out is high and the Super Delegates come though.

Lince we can!

We all know baseball voters can get things wrong. I’m usually surprised when they get things right, in fact. And we know that the CY voters are preternaturally enamored of wins (Webb), and secondarily of ERA (Santana). Those are the big, shiny, sparkly bits of foil that captivate those cats. I personally believe that there is an argument to be made only for Lincecum and Sabathia, and that if those two guys weren’t around, only then would I bring Santana into the conversation. And only if those three guys didn’t exist would I put Webb even in the conversation.

It isn’t enough just to cite a bunch of sophisticated stats (and I mean “sophisticated” in the positive sense, which should be its only sense, and not the current right-wing, negative, anti-intellectual sense of that word) and say they “prove” Lincecum was better than anyone else. Stats aren’t the truth of anything— they are essential for describing certain components. I have read some of the cases made on behalf of Lincecum that purport to “prove” that he “obviously” is the better pitcher. They are strong cases, but the case for Sabathia is strong, too— it’s not nothing. For that matter, the case for Santana is not nothing. (The case for Webb is, however, nothing.) I also believe that some of the stats I have seen cited to “prove” Lincecum’s case are cherry-picked and a bit too abstract to be truly descriptive of what the player is adding to the team’s chances of winning. While certainly wins should be largely ignored and a half-dozen other major stats should be given a lot of weight, and maybe a few more lesser-used stats should be given SOME weight, the arrangement of statistics are nevertheless an argument on behalf of a conclusion, rather than the self-evident capital-T Truth.

I am certainly not saying that Lincecum doesn’t deserve it— if I had a vote, he would get mine. But I am saying that if Sabathia gets it, Lincecum wasn’t robbed; if Santana gets it, Lincecum arguably wasn’t robbed; and if Webb gets it, that sack of crap should be arrested like OJ for stealing sports memorabilia that belongs to someone else.

Go Tim! I am 1-for-1 this month on backing winning candidates— I’m on a roll.

Although he had some control problems, he had the no-hitter going through the 8th, i believe. Then, because of our friendly pitch count rules, he got yanked. I was pretty pissed, but understood that it was for the greater good.

File this under, “Not surprising”.

First, I’d like to echo some of the posts above; this was the year of Tim, so it is very hard for me to pick a single positive moment.

But my main Tim memory is when I bought tickets to watch his match-up with Santana here in NY, Bochy switched the rotation order, and I got to watch Sanchez give up 3R in 4 innings (6 Ks though) before the sky’s opened, thunderstoem ensued and the Giants went on to lose 5-0, getting 3 hits. And of course, after Bochy moved Tim up a day, he gave up 4 runs on 9 hits in 6 innings. Maybe this isn’t a Tim memory as much as when I realized I hated Bochy.

…on the number of Fanposts if the Lynx wins this?

Less than 2 hours to go and I have to admit I am a little nervous.

60 minutes

LINCECUM WINS!