Perhaps somewhat predictably, the New York Mets’ signing of Tim Tebow to a minor league deal has elicited a few negative reactions.
An anonymous American League executive recently spoke with Randy Miller of NJ.com and went in on the Tebow signing.
“It’s a joke to me,” the exec said. “I don’t (know) what the Mets’ intentions are. He’s 29 and he hasn’t played baseball in 11 years.
“I don’t want Tebow taking the place of a kid who has been playing baseball his whole life, and he’s going to be taking someone’s place,” he continued.
The Mets officially signed the former Heisman winner to a farm system contract on Thursday. Many other prominent MLB figures have also publicly expressed their disgust at the experiment. But joke or not, the interest and the headlines that Tebow has been generating are very real, so, whatever his true intentions are, the venture has already been a success in at least some respect.
H/T theScore
