Dear Nippon Ham Fighters,

You already have the coolest name in all of professional baseball, so please don't do anything that will endanger all of that goodwill. You have already publicly stated that you will accept the highest bid for Yu Darvish. Well, the bids are all in, you know what they are (heck, we even know that the highest bid is a monster), and we all know you're gonna take the cash.

Please don't make us wait until the Tuesday deadline. Just announce, today, that you have accepted the bid, and then we can all find out who massively overpaid for the next Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Sincerely yours,
JonathanRGB

P.S. My money's on the Rangers

Dear Doc,

Just remember, until there's an announcement otherwise, I'm still the NL Cy Young Award winner.

Message received and responded to, bitch!

Sincerely yours,
The Freak

On a night in front of the largest crowd in AT&T Park history for a game that actually counted (only the All-Star Game crowd was bigger), Tim Lincecum went out and pitched the best game of his career, and quite possibly the best game in Giants franchise history.

14 strikeouts. Two hits. Only one walk. And stretches were he retired eight, nine and ten consecutive batters. 119 pitches (including 19 of them in the first inning) and wrapped up in a tidy 2 hours, 26 minutes. Tim Lincecum sent a message tonight, and that message is, Roy Halladay isn't the only premier pitcher in the National League.

What's up, Doc? The Freak, that's what's up.



No, I'm not making this post because I'm a bitter Reds fan. I'm making it because I'm a big-time Lincecum fan. That's it.