from the "san francisco chronicle" henry schullman and from csn bay area, major league baseball insiderichael irvin. henry, i'll start with you. let's start with the pitchers. tim lincecum, matt cain. how important is it that they lock these two guys up now? >> well, i mean, all you have to look for is the yankees and the red sox with their trillion-dollar payrolls and they are sitting there scrambling to find starters. i mean, the yankees fans are just up in arms because they are going to have to have burnett start game four of that series. the red sox reportedly were looking for new pitchers just to pitch a one-game playoff if they needed it in the a.l. east. if you have a pitching staff like the giants have, you want to do everything you possibly can to keep it together because this is like a once in a 50-year kind of thing. >> are you afraid of tim lincecum's comments he made to henry schullman that, well, he doesn't want a long-term deal. just these short-term deals. is he paving his way out of town? >> not necessarily. there's some good business sense behind that. if he signs a mu