MLB: Oh Cy Can You See

I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school.  He could throw that speedball by you, Make you look like a fool boy.  -Bruce Springsteen

Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go!  Like my main man Earl Weaver always says, “Nobody likes to hear it, because it’s dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same, pitching.”  You might not like to hear it, but it’s true.  You might not like to hear it, but good pitching will almost always beats good hitting.  You might like to hear it, but you’re only as good as your next starter.  With two starters like these, you must be pretty damned good.      

Tim Lincecum:  The Freak.  We are the Freakies, we are the Freakies, we never miss a meal, ’cause we love our cer-ree-eal.  Tim Lincecum doesn’t miss a meal.  He’s been feasting on the National League.  Straight up beasting on the National League.  Last night he straight up beasted on the World Effen Champions.  Last night he held the World Effen Champions scoreless over eight innings.  Holy Cow!

Lincecum, the defending Cy Young Award winner, is now 12-3.  Lincecum, the defending Cy Young Award winner now owns a 2.18 ERA.  Know this baseball fans:  The last Giants pitcher who had such a low ERA coupled with at least 12 wins over his first 22 starts of a season was Juan Marichal back in 1969.  When you’re name is mentioned in the same breath with Juan Marichal, you’re doing something.  You’re doing something special.

Wanna know what else is special?  Huh?  Do ya?  This is pretty daggone special.  So special, I gotta have some of your attention.  Give it to me.  I’ll give it you.  I’ll give you this.  In not allowing a home run, Lincecum still has not surrendered a home run at AT&T Park this season.  Not one home run at home!  Yowza!  Only one other major league pitcher in the last 17 seasons did not allow a home run at home in his first 11 home starts of a season.  Only Shawn Estes in 2001.  Before Estes, you have to go back to Tom Glavine who did it in 1992.  Yes folks, Tim Lincecum is special.  Cy Young special.

Josh Beckett:  At the trade deadline, everybody was yipping about Doc Halladay.  At the trade deadline, everybody was yapping about Doc Halladay.  Yipping and yapping.  Flipping and flapping.  I say, who needs Doc Halladay when you have Boom Boom Beckett?  Boom Boom, out go the lights!

Boom Boom Beckett was lights out once again last night.  I like that boom boom pow!  Last night Boom Boom Beckett became the major leagues’ first 13-game winner by throwing seven innings of the Red Sox’ 4-0 win in Baltimore.  He’s on that next shit now!  Hooray Josh Beckett! 

For those of you keeping score at home, that was the sixth game this season in which Beckett did not allow an earned run in an appearance of seven-or-more innings.  For those of you keeping score at home, that was the best total of such sorts in the Major Leagues until the aforementioned Tim Lincecum got his seventh such total later on in the evening.  It was late in the evening, and I blew that room away.  Josh Beckett has been blowing everyone away this season.

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

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