Things I'm Doing To Get Psyched For 2012 Baseball: Laughing At Tim Kurkjian

Deadspin has jumped onto the first post-Linsanity meme: Tim Kurkjian imitations.

Here's the Blue Jays' J.P. Arencibia (which has a nice Kurkjian coda at the end, "my career is over!"):

And here's the Rays' Elliot Johnson, who throws in obscure stats to boot ("step up and imitate the geeky little sportswriter"):

The Red Sox organization has an imitation of its own, as well, but it wasn't nationally televised; and frankly, this meme has already jumped the shark. But it's funny! Even if it's only AL East teams who seem to be in on the gag.