Tim Tebow has long been one of the most polarizing figures in sports. He had a great career with the Florida Gators, afterwards failing to make it an the NFL partly due to the amount of media circus that came with the young Florida quarterback. Tim Tebow was not the NFL star that he hoped to be. Now that his NFL dreams have ended Tebow has decided to try a new route to sports fame the MLB.
Tim Tebow recently confirmed through his agent he has been working on his baseball skills at a training complex and will hold a workout at the end of the month that is open to all MLB teams. Like any Tebow related story, this particular story has gotten many reactions from TV hosts to players. Buck Showalter was the latest to react and he seemed less than impressed, telling Yahoo! Sports:
“I better leave that one alone,” Showalter said, smiling. “Am I intrigued? No, not at all. Amused? No. I think about what these guys do in our Dominican Academy and Delmarva and Aberdeen and the Gulf Coast League and Frederick and Bowie and Norfolk, I take very seriously the stuff they have to do to get the opportunities and do what they’re doing. Somebody will sell some tickets in the spring. I should be careful, we may sign him. I bet he was a good player in high school. I was, too.”
Showalter makes a decent point that many players dedicate their lives to the sport hoping for that one chance to make a minor league team and one day to play in the big leagues. Though that is true Showalter’s comments on the surface seem rather harsh.
While many athletes would do something similar for the attention it brings, Tebow is not any athlete. If Tebow shows any promise at all, Showalter is right about one thing: Tebow will boost ticket sales for someone’s minor league system.
Next: Scouting Report on Brewer Addition Brinson
While Tim Tebow in a major league uniform may seem like a long shot, who is to say that there is anything wrong with him chasing a dream? If that dream results in some Tim Tebow fans paying more attention to baseball or a minor league team selling more tickets, that would not be such a bad thing. Rest assured this is not the last person to comment on Tebow’s dream of being in MLB nor will it be the last update we get of Tebow’s next attempt to establish himself in sports.