These pictures are of Mike Timlin goofing around this week. This quote is Mike Timlin subtly telling the media that beating to death the fact that he is going to be 41 on March 10th is starting to get a bit annoying.
Asked if he and the other members of the 40-plus
fraternity–Curt Schilling, Tim Wakefield–might form a club within a club, with
their own T-shirts and the like, said, "No, that would be a clique, and this
team has no cliques.”
So noted, Mr. Timlin. 🙂
Based on the accounts from people who were there and who know what is going on, including Mike, he tweaked his back and after some rest he should be fine. I’ll worry about it when I need to worried about it. I just wish the media would back off the ‘age’ issue a little bit. Plenty of players play past forty. Mike had a bit of an "off" season last year, what with his training getting thrown off by the WBC and then his going on the disabled list, but that was LAST year.
Do I think Timlin can bounce back from his lousy season? Sure. Do I think he’s a viable candidate for closer? If he’s healthy, I certainly do. Wednesday will be the first time (unless this is more than a tweak) Mike pitches this pre-season. He’s scheduled to go into the game after Schilling. If all goes according to MY plan, I’ll be live-blogging the game and we can all see together how he looks.
I’m not naive enough to not understand that his age could certainly become an issue, but I’d prefer to see him pitch before I start worrying about that. What I really don’t get is the insistence of the media to throw his age in his face every chance they get. They did it last year as well.
He’s ‘old’ and more prone to breaking down than the younger guys (Matt Clement is 32, I’m just sayin’)…we get it writers, we get it. We’ll be seeing him on the cover of AARP Magazine any time now. (Is there an AARP Magazine? I’m only 2 1/2 years younger than Mike…I’ll need to know this soon!)
Oh well…at least they’re focusing on a player whose name doesn’t begin with Daisuke or Curt.
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