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Tim Tebow is playing Minor League Baseball because, well, Tim Tebow wants to play Minor League Baseball. While there has been a great deal of attention paid to the former quarterback turned outfielder, his 2017 baseball season did not officially begin until Thursday evening as a member of the Columbia Fireflies. In one of the most predictable yet shocking events imaginable, Tebow stepped up to the plate and lofted an opposite-field home run in his first trip to the plate.
As you may imagine, the assigned masses on the Internet erupted with a combination of glee, skepticism and hilarity as a result.
xi jinping nodding, lips in a terse line, as donald trump explains, again, how tim tebow never would have hit that home run under obama
— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) April 7, 2017
Just amazing. Tim Tebow just keeps climbing up the record books. https://t.co/sw8CjPva32
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) April 7, 2017
Tebow 4 HOF
— Amazin' Avenue (@AmazinAvenue) April 7, 2017
hey you guys, Tim Tebow hit a *vomits uncontrollably* pic.twitter.com/HTzLTCOKQ6
— Dayton from Nebraska (@BravesAmerica) April 6, 2017
Amid the jokes (and there were plenty), the inevitable shift in attention occurred, as ESPN arrived within the crosshairs.
Programming alert: ESPN to dedicate entire 10 p.m. hour of SportsCenter to Tim Tebow hitting a home run in his first minor-league at-bat.
— Nick Mathews (@Nick_Mathews) April 7, 2017
$100 says ESPN spends at least 15 minutes tomorrow talking about that Tim Tebow homerun
— Playmaker TD 🏈 (@playmakerTD) April 7, 2017
From there, it was time to turn the collective attention to Tebow’s bizarre stoppage at second base before he continued his home run trot around the bases.
The Golden Rule. Tim Tebow is so kind and so selfless he stopped at 2nd on a Home Run to not upset the opposing pitcher. https://t.co/ek2kK2uCd0
— KFC (@KFCBarstool) April 7, 2017
He stopped at second base. Not even he believed that miracle https://t.co/MswUUti7Fd
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) April 6, 2017
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Finally, there was the segment of the population that, for better or worse, believed Tebow should be doing something else on this fine Thursday evening in April.
https://twitter.com/JodecoLikesBeer/status/850133545251221505
Tim Tebow may not hit very many home runs during his career as a Minor League Baseball player but, in his first opportunity, he hit the ball a long way and provided endless entertainment in the process.
