I'll take Timmy, but I wouldn't be surprised of Duke had a better year. He has a better team around him.

Duke is hurt again and even if he was healthy, the freak would be the choice every time (at least until the Giants burn out his arm)

**** the cy young , Tim L for MVP.

+3489257

I laugh and cringe every time I remember how close Sebean was to trading Lincecum before last season. THAT would be the worst trade in baseball history. Even more than Ernie Broglio and Bobby Shantz for Lou Brock. Good one there Cubs!

no pitcher should be MVP. Cy Young award for pitchers. Pitchers get too much credit the same as QB's. GGW, the majors are littered with former cy young award winners that amounted to nothing after. but your in luck cuz you have sabean on your side.

Until they change it to Most Valuable Position Player it shouldn't matter what position you play. In terms of the MVP award pitchers are way way way underrepresented so im not sure how they get too much credit. Cliff Lee was probably the best player in the AL last year and if the MVP always went to the best player that year Santana should probably have one by now.

Oh jesus, I was just making a joke, not trying to start a debate about if a pitcher should be MVP. LOLERSKATZ!

Matt Cain. All-star and Cy Young?

can we just give Lincecum the cy young now so we don't have to waste our time?

no hitters aren't over after 7 innings, nice try tho...
























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I forgot his name, but the A's pitcher that two hit shut out the red sox at fenway. he looked pretty good.

That was Anderson who looks like he is turning the corner. Braden has been solid all season and Outman looked fine before he got hurt. Cahill has looked good at times although he's not as far along as Anderson. If the A's are patient, they have the makings of a decent staff next year - now they just have to find some hitters (Holliday will be gone, Giambi and Garciaparra have disappointed, Chavy always hurt).

I think that the Duke will be let go - gets injured too much. Gio Gonzalez looked good in an earlier start so maybe in time, he could be another good one.

iirc, didn't the A's start out the season with 4 of their 5 starting pitchers being rookies? if the A's and Billie can keep them together, they could grow to be a pretty sick staff.

and responding to Chavy, will he ever play again? this is the third straight year that he has been done in from injures? he was such a great player.

Nice little Cy Young race going between Lincecum and Cain. Lincecum will win it again, imo.

Dan Haren > Matt Cain

chris carpenter might steal the cy young this year if lincy and cain falter at all.

1. Lincecum

2. Carpenter

3. Haren

4. Cain

imo.

Cain isnt even close to Tim in anything but ERA and Wins. Tragically that's all the voters seem to care about.

Lincecums K/BB is 191/41
Cains is 117/54

Im pretty confident that by the end of the season Tim will have broke away from Cain in ERA and Wins though so it shouldn't be a problem.

Carpenter and Haren are deserving though. They have both been great and seem like they will continue being great for the rest of the season.

While I don't think Vazquez should win the Cy Young, he is very underrated and he has been great too.




Also Hopefully Tim gets to 300 strikeouts. That would be a great feat in this day and age of low pitch counts and increased reliance on the bullpen. He is currently on pace for 287.

Say a thread on another forum titled ' Cy young winner busted for weed" and knew 100 percent before I clicked on it who it was. Tim is god

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4627319

lol I am a degen for loving timmy even more now.

basically an 1/8th is the size of a thumb? giant thumbs or some dense dank there.

I can't say that I'm surprised Timmy smokes the Cheeba. Not a big deal.

The only thing I said "WTF?" to from the story is why does he have a 2006 Benz. Time to update the car, IMO!

giants are cheap. he is making 600k a year. (which is a lot of money, but not for a cy young winner and the face of your franchise.)

The guy added that he was describing a "whole thumb." Imagine if you cut your thumb off all the way down to the wrist, with all that sort of thumb-meat from your palm (it would be like a drumstick). That's about the size of a big one-nugget-eighth, dontcha think?







That, or maybe this (big thumbs):

Tim wins again.

One of the closest finishes ever.

Lincecum - 100 pts
Carpenter - 94
Wainwright - 90

Interestingly, Wainwright actually had the most first place votes.

Two years, $23 million.

Odd contract

Apparently the Giants were offering more years, so I guess it was Lincecum who wanted the short contract.

ya he is gone after 2 years. i think the yankees will offer him a 450 year/12 billion dollar deal

Do you know how many more years and how much money total the Giants were offering?

naw i dont. i would guess 5 or 6 years for around 60-70 mill.

Well, I couldn't find anything definite, but a couple sources said there was a three-year, $37m offer.

tim 'jesus' lincecum.

3x cy young here we gogogogo.

cane, i finally checked out that article you told me about. great read.