Hooray! Huzzah! Lincecum receives 23 or 32 first-place votes and nearly doubles the point total of runner-up Brandon Webb. Congratulations, studmuffin. You’re the new N.L. Cy Young. Now, about that long-term contract…
A couple links and updates from the afternoon press conferences:
* “I don’t know what was going through the voters’ heads when they picked me. That’s an old-school way of picking things: 20 wins and you’ve got it locked down. I guess (voters) are looking at a lot of different things now.”
Baggarly of the Merc reports that Chris DeLuca of the Chicago Sun-Times was the only voter who didn’t put Lincecum on his ballot.
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In less than one hour, Tim Lincecum should be named N.L. Cy Young. I can’t wait to hear Brandon Webb’s gentlemanly concession speech. To while away the time, tell us what you’ll do if the election is rigged, the chads are left hanging, and the good citizens of Timmahland are disenfranchised.
