I can however provide some laughs about this whole situation. Alderson… “We think he can be a baseball player”.
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Tebow last played in the National Football League with the Eagles last summer. The team would undoubtedly like to have him back, and it could be Tebow’s acquisition represents something of a goodwill gesture between the Mets’ front office and agent Brodie Van Wagenen.
The outfielder went through drills at the University of Southern California’s Dedeaux Field for more than an hour, confidently chasing a dream deferred for 12 years. Adding Tebow to that mix, obviously, will give some Mets farmhands a heck of a lot of experience dealing with media hordes long before they reach the Majors. “But from the outside, I can see how it looks as a publicity stunt”.
Anyways, these Mets fans also had a good laugh, as they took to Twitter to share their thoughts on Tebow being a Met…sort of.
Last week, the 29-year-old Tebow worked out for almost 50 scouts from 28 Major League Baseball teams, including the Mets, in Los Angeles as he embarked on yet another chapter in his unique athletic story. Could he generate a frenzy of attention in spring training at the expense of the other players? Yes. Anything over that amount counts against a team’s bonus pool, which could result in a tax levied by Major League Baseball.
I was on board with this #Tebow thing until I read he will miss multiple days per week in instructional league to do TV.
As to how far he might get, who really knows. And it says here there’s no chance he begins with the Mets’ Gulf Coast League team in Rookie ball, as Gulf Coast League teams don’t even charge attendance. So is Atlanta Braves?vice chairman John Schuerholz, who acquired two-sport stars Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders and Brian Jordan earlier in his career and was on board with the team’s pursuit of Tebow.
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“Only one team – the New York Mets – was willing to let Tebow also do some television work”. He played for the Broncos and Jets from 2010 through 2012 and had short stints with the Eagles and Patriots but never saw any regular season playing time.
