October 29, 2010

Tim Lincecum's Excellent Adventure

Why does the San Francisco Giant's star pitcher Tim Lincecum always remind me of Keanu Reeves's character in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?

By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2010 Labels:

31 comments:

green mamba said...

Nice comparison. It's the wavy hair and the stoner countenance. And the kind of cute boyish looks.

10/29/10, 3:20 AM
Anonymous said...

Haha, I was thinking more like Mitch Kramer from the 1993 movie "Dazed and Confused"

10/29/10, 3:22 AM
stephen said...

He looks like Wiley Wiggins in Dazed and Confused.

10/29/10, 4:30 AM
Tom in Va said...

He reminds me of Joseph Gordon-Levitt when he was on "3rd Rock from the Sun."

10/29/10, 5:03 AM
Wade Nichols said...

You obviously haven't seen Dazed and Confused!

Enter "Tim Lincecum Mitch Kramer" into Google Images!

10/29/10, 6:04 AM
691 said...

No, he was the freshman in Dazed and Confused.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo4kDrWBa6c

10/29/10, 6:44 AM
Anonymous said...

And why does Matt Cain remind me of John C. Reilly in "Step Brothers"?

10/29/10, 7:59 AM
Anonymous said...

He reminds me of Mitch Kramer in Dazed and Confused.

10/29/10, 8:33 AM
Kevin Michael Grace said...

He looks more like Wiley Wiggins in Dazed and Confused.

10/29/10, 8:48 AM
Anonymous said...

In addition to the obvious stoner vibe, like Reeves, Lincecum is part-Asian. 1/4th Filipino to be exact. On a related note, how diluted does your Asian ancestry have to be in order to "pass" for white? Lincecum probably does. I'm 1/2 Korean, but I don't. My kids will be 1/4th Asian and I'm guessing they will.

10/29/10, 8:52 AM
Geoff said...

Reminds me more of the kid from Dazed and Confused:

http://www.americanpress.com/lc/blogs/wpDubois/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dazed-and-confused.jpeg

10/29/10, 9:02 AM
Anonymous said...

I don't know, Steve, haven't seen the pic, but as a woman, I can tell you that hair does nothing for that kid's looks. It's stringy and only elongates an already long face.

That said, he's a great pitcher and probably a decent kid, from what I hear, but no woman is going to look at him for his looks. Not to worry, for him, I suppose. There are always plenty of groupies who couldn't care less about his looks.

Which raises an interesting question. We know there are always plenty of women who like men who have money and status, but does it ever bother such men, like athletes, that the women who chase them might actually not find them physically attractive?

10/29/10, 9:58 AM
Kylie said...

Tim who?

Oh, you mean that Adam Sandler lookalike.

10/29/10, 10:22 AM
Zarathustra said...

"Which raises an interesting question. We know there are always plenty of women who like men who have money and status, but does it ever bother such men, like athletes, that the women who chase them might actually not find them physically attractive?"

Clearly, this was written by a female. I'm pretty sure Lincecum doesn't care in the least as to exactly why there's thousands of hot young women who want to sleep him (and do). Scroll down this page for bar pics of girls mobbing this guy.

thenennthinning.wordpress.com/2008/11

And it's not like he's 350 pounds or covered in severe burns, he's just a rather typical looking young man rather than the walking lantern-jawed 6'5" Hercules statue that many pro athletes are.

10/29/10, 11:18 AM
fish said...

2 - 0 folks, 2 - 0......!


Viva Gigantes!

10/29/10, 11:38 AM
helene edwards said...

The comment of the woman above about Lincecum's looks seems odd. Lincecum is obviously better looking than Steve Perry was at the same age, with about the same lanky hair (Perry being the Giants' current celebrity mascot.) As far as attractiveness to women goes, the issue is going to be personality. There's a baseball superstitition that you hide whatever personality you have from the media - something about losing your mojo if you put too much of yourself out there. Recall Crash Davis' advice to Nuke Laloosh.

10/29/10, 11:45 AM
Wanderer said...

Filipino I would expect to "show" more, at 25%. Not this time.

I really thought he looked like a less-Semitic version of Polish-Jew Adrien Brody.

______________________
-- Mother's Side: Rebecca [Becky] Asis. Her father, i.e. the pitcher's maternal grandfather, is the alleged Filipino. Here is a possible picture of the mother. (I'm not sure which she'd be).

Some websites are alleging that both her parents are Filipinos: This is the earliest such reference I can find. ("Becky is one of 1.) Balleriano and 2.) Philomena Asis' 10 children--eight girls, and two boys. 1.) Balleriano was born in Honolulu, his father Genaro Asis was born in Mindanao, Philippines; his mother Alberta Alcoy was born in Cebu City, Philippines. 2.) Philomena was born in Stockton, Calif., her father Leoncio Marcigan was born in Batangas, Philippines; her mother Anustasia Dominguez was born in Siquijor, Philippines.") Other sites insist he is quarter -- Indeed, his phenotype suggests a full half is impossible -- If those names and birthplaces are correct, some of those four must be Spaniard-colonial leftovers, or something. (Like "Zack" from Saved-By-The-Bell, whose mother was born in Indonesia but she was a member of the "Indo" mixed-race caste -- Hence "Zack" is probably not even a quarter Indonesian, racially, hence he doesn't much look it, especially with dyed hair).

-- Father's Side: Chris Lincecum -- Surprisingly (to me), the "Lincecum" name seems to be old-colonial-stock, ultimately from England. Here is an image of his father.

10/29/10, 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...

Definitely Mitch from "Dazed and Confused"...who was also a pitcher!

Brutus

10/29/10, 12:40 PM
Kylie said...

Anonymous said..."We know there are always plenty of women who like men who have money and status, but does it ever bother such men, like athletes, that the women who chase them might actually not find them physically attractive?"

It might, if it ever occurred to them.

It seems to me that women want to be valued for that which they have not whereas men believe if they are valued, it's because they have it all.

Not saying men are more narcissistic than women, just that they don't second-guess their own success as much.

10/29/10, 1:06 PM
Severn said...

We know there are always plenty of women who like men who have money and status, but does it ever bother such men, like athletes, that the women who chase them might actually not find them physically attractive?



You're applying female thinking to men. Provided you sleep with us, we are not really all that interested in whether you find us physically attractive or not.

10/29/10, 1:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Robin Gibb

10/29/10, 2:38 PM
James Kabala said...

I learned two things this week that I will never forget - Blogspot is banned in China, and Tim Lincecum looks like Mitch Kramer/Wiley Wiggins (I assume one is the actor and one is the character?) in Dazed and Confused. Thanks, comment moderation delay!

10/29/10, 3:20 PM
Marc B said...

"but does it ever bother such men, like athletes, that the women who chase them might actually not find them physically attractive?"

If they lacked confidence. Whenever a stunning woman likes me, I assume it's because she had good taste, and my muddy mix of Eastern, Northern, and Southern European makes me look more Keanu Reeves than Dolph Lundgren.

10/29/10, 4:01 PM
CJ said...

"On a related note, how diluted does your Asian ancestry have to be in order to "pass" for white? Lincecum probably does. I'm 1/2 Korean, but I don't. My kids will be 1/4th Asian and I'm guessing they will."

I've lived for many years in west coast cities with white and Asian populations, so I've seen hundreds of mixed-race kids. As you surmise, people who are one-quarter Asian and three-quarters European often look entirely European. Not always, but often. In my experience this seems to be particularly true of people who are partly Japanese but mostly white. Oddly, this seems less the case for people who are partly native Indian (meaning American Indian, the indigenous inhabitants of North America). I've known many of these in western Canada and they seem more likely to have aspects of their appearance that show they are not entirely European. Not a finely calibrated scientific dataset, I admit, but that's what my lyin' eyes have seen.

10/29/10, 8:23 PM
Anonymous said...

Same woman here--asked my daughter, 23, whom most of you men, probably all actually, would call "hot," if Lincecum was nice-looking.

Answer: Not really.
Qestion: Why not?

Answer: He looks like he's 16. And what's with his hair and those ears?

Further prodding brought forth that he wasn't masculine looking enough for her taste. I think that's a function of how young he looks.

I'd like to take him to a stylist, guys.

10/29/10, 10:58 PM
Big bill said...

The epicanthal fold + the stoner appearance.

10/30/10, 6:17 AM
Anonymous said...

He looks like a little boy. My mother and I were watchin the game trying to figure out what his ancestry was. Terribly cute though.

10/30/10, 12:47 PM
Jim O said...

Dazed and confused

You see, Steve, that's the problem with holding comments for "approval." Eight different people are misled into believing that they are making an observation for the first time. Why not just let them all of them go right away, and delete the ones that, based on whatever standards you use, don't make it?

10/30/10, 7:41 PM
greenrivervalleyman said...

Teammate Matt Cain kinnda reminds me of what Bobby Hill would look like today if he hadn't been stuck in a cartoon timewarp for the past 10 years.

Also, given this site's interest in human performance, I'm surprised no one's commented on the most significant recent change in baseball, which is the emergence of the two ace tandem as the most efficient path to World Series success. With the 8-team playoff schedule you no longer need to win 100 games to get into the playoffs. 90- or even 87- wins usually suffices. Thus the Yankee method of spending $200 million/year to have the best regular season record is way overkill. All you need is a relatively decent mix of starting players, a pretty good bullpen, a good closer, and 2 Cy Young-caliber starters and you have as good a chance as anyone of winning a championship. Great pitching dominates even the best hitting, and with 2 aces any fundamentally sound team can beat the Yankees in 7. I've been predicting a Giants World Series run for a couple years now, in fact. Another team to watch out for are the Cardinals, assuming Chris Carpenter (whose Cy Young award Lincecum stole last year) continues performing.

10/31/10, 11:28 AM
Barry said...

Tim Lincecum is Emo Phillip's son. Has to be.

PS I had no clue he was part Asian. Certainly not on his dad Emo's side.

11/2/10, 10:01 AM
marymay said...

It's not unheard of or even unusual for some biracial Filipinos to look more European or white than asian, great examples of this are Darren Criss, Krista Kleiner, and even Kristine Hermosa, who looks more spanish even though she's only 1/4 spanish. Chris Lincecum's mother doesn't have to have spanish blood for him to look the way he does, it could simply mean that he just took after his white father rather than his asian mother. His mother's family aren't members of the Spanish mestizo class in the Philippines, their surnames are usually well known, and only a handful of them exist. One good example is Enrique Iglesias' mother, Isabelle Preysler, who is a member of a Spanish mestizo family in the philippines.

11/26/10, 11:25 PM

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