Apparently, Tim Lincecum starts his day with a different sort of breakfast of champions
The Columbian has this story about the Giant pitcher and former Cy Young Award winner being stopped for speeding one morning in late October in Hazel Dell — and having a little something extra in his car:
Tim Lincecum, star pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, is facing charges of misdemeanor possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia use after being stopped for speeding on I-5 last week.
At 8:23 a.m. Oct. 30, Washington State Patrol trooper and spokesman Steve Schatzel said, a motorcycle trooper working with a laser device timed a 2006 Mercedes Benz doing 74 mph northbound in Hazel Dell near Northeast 78th Street — where the speed limit is 60 mph.
The trooper pulled the Mercedes over. When the driver, Lincecum, rolled down his window, the trooper smelled marijuana. He asked Lincecum to hand it over, and Lincecum reached into his dashboard console and produced a small pouch and a pipe, Schatzel said.
The amount was 3.3 grams, Schatzel said, which is considered only enough for personal use. Lincecum did not appear to be impaired behind the wheel and is not being charged with a felony crime, Schatzel said.
“Not unless there’s something else going on,” Schatzel said. “With this amount of marijuana, that’s normally the way we deal with it.”
He said 3.3 grams is about the size of a human thumb.
Lincecum “was cited and released,” Schatzel said. The speeding citation was for $122. He is expected to be arraigned on Nov. 23 in Clark County District Court
Geesh, did he have to come all the way down here to buy it?
Baseball | Dwight Jaynes | November 5, 2009
Dwight Jaynes, Hazel Dell, San Francisco Giants, Tim Lincicum, Vancouver
It is not that he had to come here to buy it it is that he had to come all the way to the Northwest to get the good stuff.
What a fool! Everybody knows when you travel with that stuff you hide it in the brownies
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gees,what is it about I-5 that sports figures like so much ??????
It’s the music that I like to play on my CD player when I trek from Portland to Seattle on I-5: Badoo Badoo, Do Wop, and Schoolhouse Rock! It does some weird stuff to me too. Steam Machine music, too.
What he should have done was stopped in The Rose(bud)City while en route from Frisco to Jet City just long enough to watch that dude on the public access channel. You know that dude who teaches how to drill holes in your floor board just big enough to push a fatty thru and other such beat the man tips and tricks. Mad Dog will be crushed
A little tree never hurt anybody. Toke on Lincecum….
Olympic Champions, Cy Young winners, most NBA players….don’t do drugs kids. You’ll amount to nothing!!!
Sort of reminds me of that bright yellow Hummer rolling back from Seattle at 80 miles an hour, with a pot plume that looked like Mt. St. Helens had gone off.
I know! Driving in a Hummer, at a high speed, in Centralia is going to make you stand out as it is. And, with that big cloud of smoke to boot, talk about being discreet!
If we’re going to make a big deal out of this, then it should be only for driving under the influence, which he apparently was not.
The problem is that marijuana is not legal. Period. Government doesn’t get to tax it and cops spend way too much time chasing pot users when they should be dealing with serious crimes. If there aren’t enough serious crimes to warrant as many cops as we have, then they need to find other careers.
It should be obvious to anyone that’s paying the least bit of attention that a whole bunch of people-regular people and well known athletes alike-are using pot. Expecting famous users to come up with phony mia culpas under duress for using pot and not committing a real crime is as dumb as it would be for publicly humiliating people for drinking. I’m certain the booze industry has had a hand in keeping marijuana illegal all of these years (I don’t think it’s coincidental that booze was legalized about the same time that pot was made illegal in this country).
And no, I don’t use pot. I just try to use my head.
The booze industry isn’t the one keeping pot illegal. It’s Big Pharma. Pot is one of the most effective natural medicines known to humanity but it would cut into sales of some very toxic drugs that the big pharmaceuticals are making a lot of money on.
Many cancer patients die because they become too weak from not being able to eat. Pot is sensational at fighting nausea. It turns out the munchies saves lives.
It is also excellent for chronic pain. My band played the Hempfest in Seattle and I heard the patients and their caregivers describing illnesses and medical conditions that would make you weep. Things like phantom pain in people without limbs. Extraordinary misery. And pot helps. It often is the only thing that helps without bad side effects.
I know that I’m exaggerating, and believe me I’m one of the many who wish the Mariners had taken Tim Lincecum over Brandon Morrow, but if Morrow does develop into our #3 starter, and keeps his nose clean, there may be fewer complaints. You know how “family friendly” baseball needs to give, especially a team like the Mariners. I know that the M’s organization would have had a huge cow about this.
We don’t need a baseball version of Dale Ellis.
Marijuana helps with soreness associated with performance. It also induces appetite and it is a helpful sleep agent. You can see why so many athletes prefer this drug over alcohol
wow oh god Lncicum was cool but now he’s not