OT: Drew Henson in Reverse: Tebow Giving Up Football for Baseball

Well, first he'll have massive success as a junkballing pitcher in the minors. Then when it's time to get to the major leagues, an organization will suggest that he will have greater success and staying power as a first baseman. But Tebow will say no, that he's going to be a pitcher. Some team will take a chance on him, and he'll have ok results (due to a great defense behind him). For one year. Then, because he isn't a good pitcher, he'll be cut. For the remainder of his baseball career, Tebow will insist that he's a pitcher and never make it out of spring training on anyone's roster. When, years later, he finally accepts that he can't pitch, he will announce that he's retiring from baseball and taking up hockey, where he will play goalie despite amazing skill as a wing.

Does Tebow have a gambling problem?

He'll make MJ look like Rod Carew.

MJ played due to NBA suspension for gambling

have been hitting off of the softballl/slo-pitch machines...

Gary Sheffield is an agent these days. Would be hilarious to see Gary Sheffield try to get along with Tim Tebow. Like, that should be a sitcom. Tebow as a straight laced athlete with limited potential. Sheffield as a former superstar trying to be his agent.

That's great! If anyone should be coaching Tebow on how to hit it should be the guy that does a bunch of unnecessary movements before he swings. "Alright Timmy, you just need to violently swing your bat back and forth, then kick your leg nice and high, drop your hands low and swing as hard as you can."

Dwight Gooden.....

I think football gave up on him.

but I have to say I was a little puzzled that he cannot at least be on a roster as backup QB.  The guy started basically an entire season, played in and won a playoff game.  Now there is not a place for him on a team but Drew Stanton can be in the league for like 25 years?  I don't completely understand that.

I think the dislike came from the completely over the top publicity he got while in college. Heisman contenders/winners usually get lots of hype but with Tebow, it seemed like it was a whole new level of non stop press. When he had a minor injury against Kentucky, I remember ESPN treated it to the level of if the President had just been shot. Not even Peyton Manning got this kind of coverage. Then the media still treated him kind of like a deity in the NFL even though he played waaaaay more than most thought he would. You're right. It wasn't so much hate as it was being burned out.

Barring catastrophe I believe he would have been a first pick.

That's why the Yankees pulled him. Not because he played at Michigan.

Drew Henson loved football and he cost the Yankees a ton of money by taking a 2 million dollar signing bonus and then picking football. Then they sunk a ton more into him when they traded one of their top prospects, Wily Mo Pena, to get him back from the Reds. The Yankees knew if he played his senior year he would burn them again for the NFL and they had invested too much into him to let him walk.

best part about that pic is that ball is gna end up nowhere near hernandez

When Denver upset the Steelers in OT, dude thought he was a legit QB and everyone else was stomping all over his dreams.  That was a great game but he threw the ball 9 yards and the receiver did all the work.

You're right though. Should have converted positions. Just like Jerame Tuman or Randle El or something.

Why do people make comments like this ? Tebow makes more money than 99% of people, so why does he need a job ? People love commenting on others lives and I don't get the motive ? Jealousy I guess ? It's not just you the majority of the comments in this post have the same basic idea.

Last I checked he had a job. A good job commentating for the SEC network. And I'm guessing he makes more money than most of us on this board, if not all of us.