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Related: About this forumSome players are steamed that the Mets signed Tim Tebow
Potential or not, the Tebow signing has some baseball people riled up. Tweets from current and former players at every level have been coming fast and furious. Royals relief pitcher Peter Moylan tweeted that minor leaguers spend years chasing their dreams, but Tebow ... yeah, not so much. Corey Walter, a pitcher in the Athletics org, couldnt believe Tebow had been signed at all. Former college pitcher Brady Wilson called it the "biggest joke ever." Minor leaguers Tyler Smith and Cody Decker also had comments, as did former minor leaguer Dallas Baldwin. And thats just a sliver of the comments from Thursday. The bottom line is this: they dont understand why 29-year-old Tebow is so much more special and important than they were.
And they have a point. By virtue of being an (unsuccessful) athlete from another sport, he got 28 teams and 40+ scouts and executives at his showcase, and before that he convinced a major leaguer to train him and agents to talk him up. He also got a $100,000 signing bonus, which is exponentially larger than what many draftees get. And on top of that, Tebow will be missing time to tend to his duties as a weekend college football announcer for the SEC. In fact, the Mets willingness to let Tebow continue his announcing is why he chose to sign with them. Thats not showing a lot of commitment to either baseball or announcing. And thats just yet another reason in a long, long list of reasons why people are upset.
http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/9/9/12856322/some-players-are-steamed-that-the-mets-signed-tim-tebow
Auggie
(31,061 posts)as if life is ever fair. Frauds like Tebow, Palin and Bakker, or those given unfair advantage through favoritism, nepotism or being well-connected, will always be part of the landscape.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Look at what has happened to the Philadelphia Eagles since they peevishly dismissed Tebow!
Baseball has a lot of 'idiosyncrasies.'
packman
(16,296 posts)Give em a show - Pay a dollar, see the painted lady (or Tebow in this case - remember when St. Louis Browns (long gone) put a midget on the team and the pitchers couldn't get the ball in the strike zone so the little player got to first ?) - anything to fill the stands.
For more on the short guy batting for the Browns - really kinda funny stuff involving cakes, rifles, contracts, and all kinds of foolishness:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gaedel
Auggie
(31,061 posts)PoiBoy
(1,541 posts)...have repeatedly said, this is nothing more than a marketing ploy...
$100,000 signing bonus for less than 100% participation... there is nobody with the potential to play professional baseball who would get that kind of deal...
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)Will probably work, too. They bring him up for a few games at the end of the year and then trade him to the Rangers so that Tebow can be with *.