cant believe we scored 10 runs that game

That was just awesome ! With all the crap this winter, I almost forgot how fun he is to watch.

Bring The Spring !

I was at that game. The crowd was really getting into it. There was probably a louder cheer for many of Timmy's strikeouts than Klesko's homer or Vizquel's diving stop.

I read it as  "I'd hate like hell (to not be able to trade Dave Roberts)"

I hope Tim arrogantly strikes out 250 in '08 while setting old ladies on fire.

He can be as arrogant as he wants as long as he becomes as good a pitcher as we and the projection systems expect him to be.

At least he doesn't watch cockfights.

Yeah, my favorite player of all time is Barry Bonds, and it's not even close, so I don't think arrogant would really bother me.

Now, there's certain levels of being a dick that might bother me (like the Schillings and Clemenses of the baseball world - which you can see would be an extreme level of dickism), but I'll deal with that when and if I see it.

Timmah's impatience may have been interpreted as arrogance. The summer after his final season in college he did the following:
"Tim Lincecum made his professional debut on July 26, 2006 with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes (the Giants' Class A Short Season affiliate) against the Vancouver Canadians, pitching one inning and striking out all three batters he faced. After his second outing on July 31 against the Boise Hawks, in which he pitched three innings, striking out seven and allowing just one base runner, he was promoted to the High Class-A San Jose Giants.

On August 5, in his first start in San Jose against the Bakersfield Blaze, he pitched 2⅔ innings, allowing three runs (two earned), and striking out five. Lincecum finished the year 2-0 with a 1.95 ERA, 48 strikeouts, and 12 walks in 27⅔ innings pitched. He also got the victory in the opening game of the California League playoffs, giving up one run on five hits in seven innings, striking out ten and walking one against the Visalia Oaks. However, Visalia would wind up winning the series 3-2."

The 2007 season started this way:

"Going into 2007, Lincecum was ranked as the #11 prospect in baseball and the #1 prospect on the San Francisco Giants by Baseball America.  He spent the first month of the season pitching for the Fresno Grizzlies, the Giants' AAA affiliate. In five starts (31 innings), he allowed just 1 run, 12 hits, 11 walks, while striking out 46 and going 4-0.  During his 2006 and 2007 minor league campaigns, Lincecum struck out the highest percentage of batters (minimum 100) of any minor league pitcher in the last 10 years: 30.9 percent.

Colorado Rockies prospect Ian Stewart called Lincecum "the toughest pitcher [he] ever faced," adding "Guys on our club who have been in the big leagues said he's the toughest guy they ever faced too ... I'm not really sure why he's down here, but for a guy who was drafted last year ... that guy is filthy."

Like I haven't loved my share of a-holes before...

Arrogance, confidence, I've seen that comment before about Will Clark.  As someone else noted, Tim has not seemed that way in the interviews I have seen/heard.  Perhaps someone insulted Tim just before the friend saw him, I notice that his words get more pointed when he is questioned about his height/durability.