Watch Out, That Kid's Got a Gun!

First off, I'd like to echo Jobimoto's sentiments about baseball season being officially underway. Specifically:

GO GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! (go ahead and laugh now...)

Yes, that's right, the San Francisco Giants. I'm from Northern California (Fuck you, Dodgers), so deal with it. But since I reside out in Yankee/Red Sox territory, will I ever see a Giants game in the near future on TV? That would be a big, resounding punch in the nads from the television networks. Geez, a simple "no" would have sufficed.....

Bold Prediction #1: The Giants will finish ABOVE .500 this season. Yes, that IS a bold prediction, and about as much as any Giants fan can really hope for this year.

Bold Prediction #2: Tim Lincecum will pitch a no hitter and then sprout wings and fly.

I kid you not, this is within the realm of possibility given this kid's outstanding talent. And I'm not just speaking from the articles and stats I read online; I've seen this kid in action live and in person at PacBellAT&T3ComWhateverthehellCompanyWantstoPut
TheirNameonThisStadiumThisWeek Park (which, beside the name is one hell of an amazing ball park and a right proper new home for our SF heroes; Although anyone who's ever been to Candlestick, or "the Stick" as its better known, knows that there is no real replacement) and Lincecum is a flat out wonder to watch on the mound. The problem is, there's no one to really back him up with a bat or even some relief. As seen in yesterday's bizarre game, Lincecum has proved that he is both the Giant's star pitcher as well as their most valuable reliever now. Well, great. Let's just clone the boy wonder a couple times and be done with it. Yesterday's game also seemed to indicate that the Giants are going to have to go back to the strategic drawing board and start screwing around with funky fresh tactics in order to win some games this year. They've got a solid young crew that will take a few years to groom into fierce competitors (if they hold on to them), but if they're going to play run-of-the-mill predictable ball, they're going to get pretty regularly hammered. Which is fine and what we'll expect, but it would be pretty frickin' cool if they found a rhythm in changing it up and doing some crazy things with their young and energetic crew. Hell, it might even create some buzz, throw the rest of the division off a bit, and make it interesting enough that they'll want to broadcast the games all the way over here. It would be the kind of innovative, balls-to-the-wall, I-blew-my-entire-signing-bonus-on-hookers-and-booze-last-night gameplay that makes NCAA football and basketball so much more interesting to watch than the pro leagues.

A man can hope.

That's all for now, but I'll be back at ya a little later in the day with some sweet ass reviewing of my new toy....

B-Moto out

"are you gonna eat that?"