Not to lay any more pressure or responsibility on the head and shoulders of Tim Lincecum, but the San Francisco Giants aren't nearly as fun to watch with him leading the league in earned runs allowed. That might be his hair on the mound, but that's not our Timmy. Yeah, the Giants are winning games (at least enough for second place in the NL West) and they still have very good pitching overall (Matt Cain just threw a perfect game!), but they're nowhere near as entertaining or as formidable with Lincecum pitching like he has. The Giants have gone 2-12 in Lincecum's starts, and his 53 earned runs allowed are just 13 fewer than he allowed in all of 2011 . In order to get his ERA from 6.19 to back down where it belongs, he's going to have to start pitching again like, well, Tim Lincecum. You know, our Timmy. People have begun to ask: Will the Giants skip Lincecum in the rotation? Once or twice? Send him to the bullpen for a couple of weeks to meditate with Sergio Romo? Even ship to Fresno, for some minor league seasoning? Make him pitch from the full wind-up at all times , stolen bases be darned, because he's terrible from the stretch? At least make him get a haircut, as some kind of...