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Lincecum signs two year deal...

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backwardsk Hangout Grand Counsel

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If I was Lincecum I would have accepted the 23 million dollar offer just because of the guarantee. But I would have thought he would have signed closer to 26 million over the two years.

Good to keep this out of arbitration. He still could stand to make more on performance bonuses.

Doesn't Lincecum remind you of the kid from Dazed and Confused, if that guy had recovered from the paddling he had in Pony League?

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Good to keep this out of arbitration. He still could stand to make more on performance bonuses.

Doesn't Lincecum remind you of the kid from Dazed and Confused, if that guy had recovered from the paddling he had in Pony League?

:rofl::rofl::rofl: You're right!

<img src="http://intershame.com/img/weblog/tim_lincecum_mitch_kramer.PNG">

There's so many hilarious quotables from McConaughey in that movie.

"All right, all right, all right."

"The older you get, the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N."

Most of the others are not OH appropriate. :)

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I was curious about that myself. Why was the deal so short?

There is a lot of pressure on the Giants from the Owners and from the Players Assoc.

To go from 6whatever thousand he was making to 13 million would have been legendary...it would have set precedent.

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