Lincecum Busted

Tim Lincecum is the baddest-ass pitcher in all of baseball if you ask us.

Home boy is 5′11″, 172 pounds, and yet he somehow manages to uncork four of the nastiest pitches in the majors – including a two-seam fastball that reaches into the upper nineties.

The kid is blessed – as his Cy Young season in 2008 (only his second year in the bigs) demonstrated.

This week, however, Lincecum is in the news for something not so good (depending on how you look at it) … a pot bust in his home state of Washington.

From the AP:

San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum is facing misdemeanor marijuana charges following a traffic stop in his home state. Washington State Patrol spokesman Steve Schatzel said Thursday that the 2008 Cy Young Award winner and former University of Washington star was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 5 in the town of Hazel Dell, about four miles north of the Oregon border, on Oct. 30.

An officer approached Lincecum’s 2006 Mercedes and smelled marijuana as the pitcher rolled down his window. Schatzel said Lincecum immediately complied with a request to hand over the drug and a marijuana pipe from the car’s center console.

The amount measured was 3.3 grams. Schatzel said police consider that a small amount for personal use, well below the maximum of 40 grams before possession is classified differently and carries a more severe penalty.

Alright … wake and bake?  Fine.  Watch (TV) and bake?  Also cool.  Drive and bake, though?  Yeah, not so much.

Lincecum isn’t doing anything wrong by smoking pot, but doing it while driving is a “no-no,” and not the sort of “no-no” this pitcher should be famous for.

Let’s hope Lincecum continues to handle this the right way and learns from his mistake … after all, we’re hoping against hope to land him on our fantasy team next year!

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