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While he's a great athlete and good role model for kids I think his chances of making it to the Show are slim and none. Yes, he hit a dinger at his first at-bat but to make it all the way you have to be able to do that again and again against a lot of really good pitchers. He's also a position player and there are a lot of guys who can chase down just about anything the moves and I'm not sure he's one of these guys.
I do wish him luck. He'll put butts in the seats but I'd be surprised if he even makes it to AAA ball.
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I doubt he'll see another fastball with an admission like that. Best of luck to him, I hope he gets what he wants out of this, which is visibility for another book deal or speaking tour. This is about sustaining Brand Tebow. |
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Ptourkin, excellent response, thanks.
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I always find it fnny when one sport says it's the toughest, or most difficult or whatever... in almost a logic vacuum. What Tebow did was likely likely more probable than we think, and more so a "fluke".
But really, what's harder? Hitting a fastball or getting a hole-in-one? I played lots of different sports growing up and although I never faced 80+mph fastballs hitting a baseball isn't that hard. For that matter, what about stopping a 80+mph wrist shot, or a 100+mph slapshot in ice hockey or a penalty shot?. 98% of the worlds population couldn't even get from the bench to the net wearing ice skates.... let alone even balance standing still and hope it hit them. At least with shoe sports everyone knows how to stand and run. If Tebow hit a homerun into a golf hole while wearing skates on ice, I'd be really impressed!
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Sam Snead and Ted Williams once argued whether it was harder to hit a golf ball or a baseball, until Snead said: “Ted, you don’t have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.”
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Right. It is as simple as not throwing fastballs. Since any pro can hit a fastball, it makes you wonder why anyone throws fastballs...unless you realize pitching isn't throwing, and pitching involves location and changing speeds- ask post surgery Frank Tanana. Tanana was described as "the guy who threw 90 in the 70s and 70 in the 90s."
Hitters with a plan sit on a pitch. Hitters without a plan are named Rob Deer- you know, the guy with a career .180 batting average and who led the league in striking out 4 times.
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Great plan if you're trying to keep your name top of mind for the punters in the seats, less so if you actually want to make a career of it. |
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Right. Because laying off a change up is easy. Makes you wonder why every MLB game has a hitter frozen by a change up - you know the pitch that looks like a fastball until about 30' from the plate.
I get it. People hate Tebow. It's cool he hit a home run in his first at bat. Too bad people can't enjoy the beauty of it.
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Most people are responding with "big effing deal" because, well, big effing deal.
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Because anyone at the pro level can hit a fastball:
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/al...-vs-john-kruk/
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Ancient history, but here’s why I don’t like Tebo:
His mom sued the state of Florida-to have her home-schooled son the right to play football in a public High school. Won the case, first ever in the country. Then she moved and lived in a hotel so Tim could play at a top tier HS. Basically proving you could drive around the entire state, rent a room and have your kid play in any community you really didn’t ave roots in. So I always thought about the kids who grew up in a community, were quarterbacks, and got screwed out of a spots due to the Tebow’s cherry picking. So the super christian family f’d over others. Nice. Details may be foggy, i’m going from memory. Some may call it a “smart move”, I call it a scummy. |
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This guy is a scuzzbag. Whatta self serving schmuck. Never has anyone got so far with so little.
Why does anyone pay any mind to this guy? My goodness me, live your own lives and don't have anything this attention-whoring buffoon does intersect with your consciousness. Sports idolatry is Soma for the unwashed masses but this guy isn't even in that circus - he is outside of the big tent doing dog tricks at the side-show. Who watches that? Gimme a break. He oughtta be doing babyoil wrestling with Ryan Lockte. |
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A guy I work with played some independent league ball years ago. He said what bothers him and others is that someone who has dedicated a lot of their life to baseball loses a spot to Tebow. Some of those guys work for years holding on to the chance to get to the show.
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