Giants hurler Tim Lincecum was recently invited to the new MLB Network studios for an interview with Harold Reynolds and Victor Rojas. Some major points I remembered:
On the offseason: “It’s been quite a whirlwind, a roller coaster ride, but a fun one.”
On hearing that he’d won the Cy Young: “like, woo hoo.. but a lot louder when I said it… more than that”
On his hometown team: “I wasn’t the biggest Mariners fan…but i followed them when I could…I was just a fan of baseball in general”
There was no major league pitcher he idolized while growing up, the only one he looked up to was just his good ol’ dad.
As a high school freshman, he was 4′ 11″, about 85 pounds. By the time he had graduated he had sprouted to an amazing 5′ 8ish”, 120-130 lbs. (He’s now 5′ 11″, close to 6 feet)
Giants fans can breathe easy, #55 was not for Orel Hershiser. There was no significance to the number, it was just randomly assigned when he was called up.
A little talk about what he had to do with motion capture for MLB 2K9, where he looked like “a black Christmas tree”
Tim’s dad: “ice is good for two things: injuries and drinks”.
Harold Reynolds tried to get him to do a Family Guy impersonation, but he sidestepped around it.
All in all, he was his usual quiet, laid back, deadpan self as you’ve probably seen in many a Giants interview.
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This post was written by Hank on January 10, 2009
