Lincecum Wins Player's Choice

In what is turning out to be a historic election season, our very own Tim Lincecum comes out as democracy's big winner today, collecting two player's choice awards: The Sporting News' Pitcher of the Year and The Players Choice Award for Outstanding Pitcher. A huge congrats to The Franchise for the first and second of what is hopefully many awards.

Before you start laying down your Cy Young bets, bear in mind that neither are necessarily a precursor to winning pitching's highest honor: only 4 of the last 8 recipients of the Player's Choice and 3 of the 8 Sporting News honorees went on to win the Cy.

Schulman, however, finds a couple votes for Timmy in his unofficial exit poll.

Programming Note: Speaking of elections, I'm sure many have you have noticed the relative radio silence of the blog since the season's close. That is a result of the blogupational hazard of actually having other employment - principally the kind that pays. Mine is linked to these here elections, so publishing may be uneven until then.

Democrat, Republican, Green or other, however, all partisans are welcome here, except perhaps for Lasordans.

Until too long, my friends. In the meantime, I hope you've all taken the time to check out the biggest Cinderella story, possibly, well, ever in these Tampa Rays. If you can displace your jealousy with the hope for our very own boys to pull off this kind of turnaround, it's actually kind of fun to live vicariously through them.

Just try not to compare the teams too closely...