Bye Bye Cy?

Soul crushing start for The Franchise last night. For the glass half full types, Timmy did eclipse Jason Schmidt's San Francisco K record, notching his 252nd.

Perhaps more importantly, with Lincecum's Cy hopes all but a glimmer, the braintrust (and I use that term lightly) may finally be convinced to forgo risking his health and skip his final extra start.

JLev, who's generally known as a crotchety contrarian, and I actually see eye to eye on this point. But maybe we're too indoctrinated by the elitist, wine and cheese Baseball Prospectus pitcher abuse points crowd, and it's possible we lack the hairy-chested, red-blooded, beer-swilling attitude of the "throw 'em out there and let God sort 'em out" mentality the Bruce Jenkinssssss of the world espouse.

So let me ask you - if Brandon Webb throws a stinker in his next start and opens the door a crack for The Freak, do we try to let the kid storm through it? Do you think, perhaps, that the reason the kid was uncharacteristically mediocre yesterday have anything to do with the fact that he has thrown 383 pitches in the three starts prior?

Let me ask: are we off our rocker for suggesting this behavior is completely reckless? After all, the great ones (Marichal, Gibson, Koufax) ran up high pitch counts regularly and they were fine, right? Responses rife with needless passion and angst encouraged.