Tim Lincecum wins the 2008 National League Cy Young Award

My favorite pitcher to watch, Tim Lincecum, won the most prestige pitching award in baseball, the Cy Young award, in his second full season:

The slender kid with the whirling windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.

Lincecum received 23 of 32 first-place votes and 137 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks got four first-place votes and finished second with 73 points.

Although there has been some pretty shitty Cy Young picks in the past, this one was well deserved. On one of the worst teams in baseball, Lincecum was 18-5 with 265 strikeouts. The reason: an unhittable fastball, slider combination. He's only 24, so expect more years of this. That is unless his arm falls off because Bruce Bochy pitches him to death. Let's hope that doesn't happen. Anyway, enjoy some video of Lincecum doing his thing. It's very shitty video but it was the best I could find on YouTube: