It’s Freak-time again…

 Lincecum. The Freak. The Man. Still doubt me? Need more evidence? Fine. Here it is:
From last night:
WIN, 7.2 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 10 K’s.
He lowered his ERA to 2.43 (Tying him with Cliff Lee for best in MLB).
He increased his MLB best strikeout total to 210.
He’s now 15-3 which gives [...]

The Freak Attacks!

Well Tim Lincecum pitched again last night. How did he do? Below is his line:
8 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 8 K, WIN
He’s now 14-3, has lowered his ERA to 2.48 (2nd in MLB to Cliff Lee who has a 2.43 ERA) and increased his strikeout total to an even 200 [...]

“Walk Loudly And Carry A Small Stick”

The section “Mudpies and Fishfrys” of my blog examines the peculiarities of typical (and sometimes atypical) tendencies of human behaviour. That being said… the following is the first piece of what I hope is to be many.
Installment 1 of Mudpies and Fishfrys:
We’ve all seen him before. The man with the purposeful stride. His back as [...]

The Freak: Tim Lincecum

***update: since I wrote this Lincecum pitched one game: What did he do? He got a win (now 13-3). Was it an impressive win? Umm, yeah. He only pitched 7.2 innings giving up 3 hits, 1 earned run (lowering his ERA to 2.60) and striking out 10 (now has MLB best 192 K’s).***
I’ve been a [...]

Free Credit Report Ripoffs

Admittedly, I haven’t checked (too hard) to see if those “singers” from the Free Credit Report commercials have been nabbed yet for copying Geggy Tah’s video for “Whoever You Are” (which is a sweet song by the way). Geggy, I say you sue them! Someone I know said it best: “Those guys on the commercial [...]

New Ray Lamontagne CD

The new cd by Ray Lamontagne (if you don’t know who he is SHAME ON YOU), called Gossip in the Grain, comes out on October 14th. One of the songs on the album called “You Are The Best Thing” is now featured on his myspace (http://www.myspace.com/raylamontagne) This song is absolutely amazing!
Click on the play button below [...]

Book recommendation

Here is a book that I HIGHLY recommend and it’s out now in paperback and hardcover:

You don’t need to be a fan of fantasy literature to enjoy this book. Fans of good fiction novels will find this a great read!
Book Two of the series (by author Patrick Rothfuss) is called “The Wise Man’s Fear” and is scheduled [...]

They found him!

*** Update: [8-19-2008] The people who claimed that they caught the big fella came out and said it was a hoax.
 
Apparently Bigfoot has been found. You know, the big guy who fought Steve Austin and MacGyver… I guess we’ll find out this Friday!

Read all about it here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402882,00.html

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