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Ex-Giant Tim Lincecum once showed off Cy Young Awards to win arbitration case

Friday held MLB's deadline for teams and arbitration-eligible players to submit salary figures. It's that time of the offseason when players and clubs negotiate over salaries.

Some settle, some don't.

If the parties don't come to an agreement, there's a hearing where a panel of arbitrators listens to both sides of the case and decides the winner.

Oh, to be a fly on that wall ...

This was how two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum's situation with the Giants once went:

"Walked into the courtroom with both Cy Young Awards. They never even started talking -- it was signed, sealed and delivered right there.