Is he human?

12449 (the following story is fiction) His mechanics are like nothing any human being have ever seen, he’s smaller than any pitcher in baseball, he throws as hard as any pitcher out there, he walks around the big city of San Francisco as if he owns the place, he is rightly nicknames “the freak". His list of accolades are remarkable, in 2003 he was named Gatorade Washington ST baseball player of the year. In 2006 he received the Golden Spikes award. In 2008 he received Player's Choice Award for National League's outstanding pitcher, Sporting News National League Pitcher of the Year, led Major League Baseball with 265 strikeouts, 2008 NL Cy Young Award winner, and 2008 Major League Baseball Starter of the Year. In his first ever major league start the game was national televised on ESPN. His name, Tim Lincecum. He is the games best pitcher and some would dispute whether he is even human. In fact one group has gone as far as trying to bring Lincecum before court on charges of being an alien. When Timmy was informed of this he jokingly replied “zoink?" This comment only alienated the group further, and on January 3rd, an articled appeared in the New York Times revealing 15 human accounts of people claiming to have seen an alien landing in the same town that Lincecum was reportedly born in. This was the first time I took claims that he was not human seriously. And I took the first plane to Washington; I was disturbed greatly to find that he was not born at a hospital, but at “home". I methodically gathered evidence, and each day I got more suspicious of this alien claiming to be a man named Lincecum. I found out that nobody from the town he was from remembers him before the age of 9. I talked to an old man who lived in the town his whole life, he said to me “Chris, I have lived here my entire life, and I tell you I have never seen anything as strange as the sudden appearance of this thing at age 9". I was convinced within myself that Lincecum was no ordinary human, but knew I needed more evidence to prove it to the world that had fallen in love with him. I stayed in the 0town for two months documenting every interview and piece of evidence I got. Than as I was lying in bed it occurred to me, “why would an alien, come to earth to play baseball?" The thought was a startling one as I realized to myself that there must be another reason, and that it could even mean the extermination of the world. I decided that I was the only one who could save the world, even if it meant the extermination of this thing. I had friends in high places and was easily able to get a job inside the Giants clubhouse. I pondered to myself why he had chosen the San Francisco Giants? I thought “after all he was drafted by two different teams but declined both offers, what was he trying to find here?" It was something big and I knew it. The next day was a home game, and Lincecum pitched, as usual he was unhitable, emerging with a complete game shutout. As he was walking past me I saw something in his eyes that scared me, then I heard a voice in my head saying “I know why you’re here, but you can’t stop me it’s to late, the wheels are in motion and there’s nothing you can do about it". I stopped dead in my tracks and forgetting the words had not been spoken out loud but in my head, I screamed out “STOP HIM, POLICE ARREST THIS MAN" Every body stopped and stared at me, realizing that these people hadn’t heard the voice, I knew only one course of action. Rearing back my fist I let loose a punch which I thought could have knocked out even the toughest of men, but to my surprise he didn’t even budge. He stood resilient, as plunged my body at him in an attempt to tackle him, but to my shock he still didn’t move. The next moment I felt the force of three security guards tackling me to the ground. I find myself in torture in prison as every five days I am forced by my cell mate to watch the alien pitch against humans and shut them down. The days in jail had let me think about the last couple months, and I had realized that he was in fact not human; although I also figured out he meant no harm to civilization. He was in fact on earth for one reason, baseball. true