{"id":21309,"date":"2017-04-27T19:04:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21309"},"modified":"2017-04-27T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:04:46","slug":"tebow-can-play-hardball-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21309","title":{"rendered":"Tebow can play hardball, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BBAqYWe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21310\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BBAqYWe-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BBAqYWe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BBAqYWe.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call me surprised &#8230; in a most pleasant way.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Tebow, the one-time standout college football quarterback who didn&#8217;t cut it as a pro, has turned to baseball.<\/p>\n<p>I once thought\u00a0the Heisman Trophy winner&#8217;s\u00a0stint with\u00a0the New York Mets organization was little more than a publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p>You may dip me in sesame seeds. It turns out Tebow is starting to get the hang of the game he didn&#8217;t play seriously since high school. Tebow is learning how to hit pro baseball pitching while playing for the Columbia (S.C.) Fireflies. He started out abysmally, but has gone 9 for 20 of late, raising his batting average to a respectable .246.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/wait-is-tim-tebow-actually-getting-good-at-baseball\/ar-BBAqVZH\">Tebow&#8217;s status as a bit of a cult figure <\/a>goes a good bit beyond his athletic prowess. He is known as an\u00a0devout Christian who introduced a new verb\u00a0to the English language: <em>Tebowing<\/em>. It&#8217;s meant to describe the kneeling\u00a0pose Tebow would use whenever he scored a touchdown. Tebow would kneel while saying a brief prayer of thanks to God.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I was skeptical about his baseball adventure. I feared the Mets had denied <em>another more deserving young man<\/em> a shot at making it in the big leagues by giving a high-profile celebrity-athlete a chance to play some hardball.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow\u00a0gave up football after being unable to make the grade with a number of National Football League teams. He fell victim to the curse that occasionally hits Heisman Trophy-winning athletes, those who are unable to lift their game to a competitive level in the pros even after excelling at the college level.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball, though, is providing him with another opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I wish\u00a0the young man well and hope he continues to improve.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me surprised &#8230; in a most pleasant way. Tim Tebow, the one-time standout college football quarterback who didn&#8217;t cut it as a pro, has turned to baseball. I once thought\u00a0the Heisman Trophy winner&#8217;s\u00a0stint with\u00a0the New York Mets organization was little more than a publicity stunt. You may dip me in sesame seeds. It turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tebow can play hardball, too!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2097,3282,4814],"class_list":["post-21309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-heisman-trophy","tag-new-york-mets","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21311,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions\/21311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}