Some baseball experts say that he still isn't quite professional material. Certain things just go past him, don't even register. And you can't be a pro player without mastering those skills. Even so, a pro quarterback has very fast reflexes and perception so I would not bet that Tebow could not develop those skills and play in the major leagues.

Some baseball experts say that he still isn't quite professional material.

I also don't think he's "pro material" at *this* juncture. BUT Tebow's rate of improvement has been sorta...miraculous. I'd played baseball in HS and college and know the intricacies of the game and how long it takes to adapt.

Hitting .256 at AA ball is very good. He's hit .315 in his last 15 games. A small sampling size, granted. BUT it indicates a rapid learning curve. His mastery of baseball skill at this rapid pace may surprise. Tebow just has an intangibility that can't be measured. (some might call it "divine" help.)

Pro quarterback has very fast reflexes and perception so I would not bet that Tebow could not develop those skills and play in the major leagues.

Agree. This is one guy whose will and skills would never bet against.

Tebow isn't built like a swimmer or a tennis player either.


RightScoop: Tim Tebow just made ALL-STAR team and he might be playing for the Mets soon!

What kind of person wishes him ill-will and failure?

Baseball players don't have those big vascular arms and heavily muscled upper chest.

I guess I could post images of Jose Canseco, although that would be pretty gay.

Barry Bonds, post steroids, looked like some kind of offensive lineman.

Even IF an Exorcism is performed, it must be epic.

Our only chance is IF one is performed by an imported fleet of Popes, Cardinals and Priests from the Vatican working in shifts. The crucifixes must be super-sized gold models. A holy water-cannon must be shot directed at Olbermann's heart. MIGHT work. Might not.

;^P

Canseco is another baseballer who breaks the mold. 6'4", 240 lbs? That's really big for baseball.

Not anymore.

You probably haven't checked out the updated rosters and sizes of typical MLBers.

I've read Bill James MLB Baseball stats and analyses for many years. Great statistical and metric fodder.

These days, MLB execs are finding great favor with pitchers who now average NFL-sized baseball players who stand at 6-3 to 6-5, 220-250 lbs is becoming much more the norm. The perception is that even IF they stink, they'll *look* like they'll be good. Even if they are mediocre, they'll stay with them. It's CYA masking incompetent player scouting and skill assessment.

On the other hand, MLB Execs will not extend nearly the same patience and respect for guys who are 5-10, 5-11 but whose skills and stats are actually better.

This is basically style over substance which also helps quell the complaints of fussy fans AND especially Sports writers' complaints. (BUT...BUT...LOOK AT HIM?? He LOOKS dangerous!!) Fear of baseball writer opinion that targets MLB execs is as insidious as fear of the political ops of liberal MSM.

Think of this Size = Excellence presumption as the political equivalent of candidates WITH "good hair" vs. bald candidates/politicians. Examples are rife.

Keith OverBite! Yup. Prime Candidate.

Even IF an Exorcism is performed, it must be epic.

Our only chance is IF one is performed by an imported fleet of Popes, Cardinals and Priests from the Vatican working in shifts. The crucifixes must be super-sized gold models. A holy water-cannon must be shot directed at Olbermann's heart. MIGHT work. Might not.

;^P

6-4 and 250? You should at least get a 95mph fast ball out of the dude. Problem is does he have control and can he develop other pitches especially strike out pitches (slider, curve, cutter)

Hear ya...

I have never understood how any guy/pitcher who 6-2+ with a good arm can't throw 94+ MPH. Never mind 6-4, 250. At that size they shuld easily throw 95+ (and many do.)

But yes, IF you're serious about your craft, with command, gotta develop a mastery of at least two OTHER pitches. (all 3 of your above pitches would make a pitcher dominant. FWIW, when I pitched, I'd also come at a batter from all different angles like "El Duque".)

Red, Unc, have you guys noticed the LOW BAs of MLB this year? Many team averages are from .225-.240. And for the first time there may be more Ks than hits! It's HR or a Whiff. Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra typically would K less than 25 times PER YEAR!

The game has become either an XBH/HR or bust.

Last night: TIE GAME. Yankees get the lead off guy on, inning 9. Fast guy at first, fast guy at bat (Brett Gardner, who can bunt, and bunt well). You need just ONE run to win; What did Gardner do? Promptly swings away and raps into a DP. EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A HERO. Baseball's olde school fundamental/situational tactics are dead.

Bombers gave away a game an inning later last night when an opposite field 340' HR was dinked into the seats. (but also NOT before loading the bases wit one out and all that was needed was CONTACT. The next two batters K'd on 6 pitches.)

Hate to say it -- MLB is dying. NFL is dead. NBA is unwatchable.

The NHL is a great game but on Tee-bee the puck is difficult to see. BEST live game to see is an NHL game. Red, IF you get the chance....:-)

Imagine the President marching in this "Exorcist Detail" as his guests at SOTU Address before Congress?

Trump at the outset:

"Welcome. First of all I'd like to welcome my several guests flown in from the Vatican.

As a professional courtesy, they've volunteered to anoint willing members of the Democrats and Media with Holy Water to perform Exorcism rites before I begin addressing you and the American people. Three holy water trucks are parked just outside for your convenience -- one solely for Pope Francis, who I'm told is still mellow from chain-smoking some really excellent Moroccan weed".

HA! (we can dream, can't we?)

As a professional courtesy, they've volunteered to anoint willing members of the Democrats and Media with Holy Water and perform Exorcism rites before I begin addressing you and the American people.

Jim Costa of CNN would start hurling green vomit and spinning his head around.

Jim Costa of CNN would start hurling green vomit and spinning his head around.

CNN's Acosta -- the male Linda Blair. THAT is one lunatic whose Exoticism Operation would really be a challenge.

I'd pay good money to see Sarah Huckabee drill him through his nose with a straight-arm, heel-of-hand martial Arts blow...

To be honest....it wouldn't matter who delivered it.

CNN's Acosta -- the male Linda Blair. THAT is one lunatic whose Exoticism Operation would really be a challenge.

He should be expelled from the WH pool for yelling at the prez rudely and repeatedly, both overseas and in the States. He is also rude to Sanders regularly and seems to think he has special privileges.

They should shut him down and decredential him. If CNN wanted to send another reporter, they could but Costa but not be allowed in the WH pool again.

Junk food AND gambling addict (and "dabbled" in narcotics *I believe*). Hmmm...you made be also remember how McLain was a yuge, famous soda addict, wasn't he?? One after the other.

Right -- he aged prematurely, but that was before the 1980s when most everyone did, didn't they? What was called the "Breakfast of Champions"??: Yup -- BEER.

(McLain sporting a tractor-tire around his mid-section who-knows-when):

However, he still won 30 games. He didn't do much after that except go to prison.

For a couple of years, Denny McLain was one of the best pitcher in baseball: 31-4 in '68, 24-7 in '69 (and then it all fell apart.

I liked him for feeding Mickey Mantle a gift meatball in 1968, helping Mickey hit HR #533(?) (or another special HR late in his career.)

He should be expelled from the WH pool for yelling at the prez rudely and repeatedly, both overseas and in the States. He is also rude to Sanders regularly and seems to think he has special privileges.

They should shut him down and decredential him.

If CNN wanted to send another reporter, they could but Costa but not be allowed in the WH pool again.

Hear ya on ALL counts.

Why is this attn-whoring, yammering POS drama-queen even still a member of the WH pool? He's a clinical mental case.

The President and Sanders are under no obligation to give courtesy to the dis-courteous, the dis-respectful, the inciter, Acosta -- are they?

I agree. He and others who try to make it about THEM ought to be warned THEN banned if necessary. It IS a privilege to be counted in the court of pool reporters; Acosta isn't a "reporter", he's nothing but a Dem/Resistance shill, feathering his own toxic nest for a book deal or show. This Instigating Punk needs to be buried. DEEP.

Sure, Sarah Sanders is taking the bullet for this MSM-Dem jihad, but couldn't it be said that it is in fact helping to convince moderate Dems to jettison them in lieu of Trump and Pubbies?

But here's Michael Moore's true Doppelganger:

Breakfast of Champions

I thought that was "Wheaties" but maybe that's what turned Bruce Jenner into a freak.

Not bad either.

The other joke IS Bruce Jenner's Wheaties Box. Ugh.

Anyone know what DID turn Bruce Jenner into a "girl" in his mind at age 60+? The guy had been a closet tranny for quite some time. Daddy/Mommy problems? Was he molested?

Anyone know what DID turn Bruce Jenner into a "girl" in his mind at age 60+? The guy had been a closet tranny for quite some time. Daddy/Mommy problems? Was he molested?

Perhaps his appearance in this gay fest of a movie should have given us some insight.

Red, Unc, have you guys noticed the LOW BAs of MLB this year? Many team averages are from .225-.240. And for the first time there may be more Ks than hits! It's HR or a Whiff.

That's been going on for a few years now since "a few" players are better now that they changed their swing a little to hit more fly balls. Needless to say 90% of them need to change back to hitting line drives cause they haven't got enough ass to hit it out without a tailwind.

I have never understood how any guy/pitcher who 6-2+ with a good arm can't throw 94+ MPH. Never mind 6-4, 250. At that size they shuld easily throw 95+ (and many do.)

Mechanics. Some guys start throwing harder after a few years because they've fixed their mechanics, in essence smoothed out their delivery and their arms are now freer to travel further/faster.

That's been going on for a few years now since "a few" players are better now that they changed their swing a little to hit more fly balls.

Needless to say 90% of them need to change back to hitting line drives cause they haven't got enough ass to hit it out without a tailwind.

Right. We rarely see line drives any more. Guys with warning-track power. Upper-cuts are what's taught. Bunch of guys are whiffing 180-200x per year. For what? 20-30 HRs? BORING. But that's because of these newer band-box stadiums. LIKE THE "NEW" FAKE YANKEE STADIUM (which I despise). Never seen so many cheap HRs.

We're seeing all these pop ups and fly outs, some dribblers, and half the time -- K's. Fundamentals are pretty much extinct.

(And not that I watch NBA anymore, but the same there. 80s basketball was far more fun to watch.)

Mechanics. Some guys start throwing harder after a few years because they've fixed their mechanics, in essence smoothed out their delivery and their arms are now freer to travel further/faster.

Good call.

Now that the players have these computerized analyses of mechanics, it's much easier to adjust and fix. Same really of hitting.

They can also better isolate the muscles used in pitching via computerized graphics.

Was reading the Bill James Stat handball (2017). In it was chapter on the vast number of pitchers who've had Tommy James surgery. You would NOT believe it. Amazing. They now throw at the same or better velocity. Even 10 years ago most of them would have been out of baseball.

Speaking of mechanics, back when I was hurling I came 3/4. It produced more velocity and a moving fastball. Curve broke a lot better.

THEN..."Traditional" Coach insisted I come straight over the top. Not conducive for my shoulder shape. Lost my previous velocity and movement AND control. Curve hung instead of having a slider-action. Obviously lost effectiveness, then confidence.

:-( Buh-bye NY Yankee staff. lol

Tommy Lasorda taught players to swing down at the ball (especially if they have speed).

Did he? So did Casey Stengel.

He said that you are more likely to get on base that way, and if you contact it right, the spin will more likely carry it out of the ball park.

Maybe in bigger ballparks both Lasorda and Stengel were right..

But in these tiny ballparks, upper-cuts produce possible HRs. Check out THIS lame "pop-up" to right by Yanks' 6-6, 260 lbs Giancarlo Stanton last night that turned into a HR (@1:42 mark):

The HRs during the last 20 years prove upper-cuts produce HRs (then again, there were no steroids, computerized analyses, weight training and conditioning back then either.)

What do you expect he's wearing a Barney necktie.

HA!!

**shaking head**

What is it with Dems/Liberals/Leftists with their fetish with symbolism for EVERY moment of the day?

Two colors I really can't stand seeing:

1) OverBite's "Resistance" Purple
2) NFL/"Breast Awareness" pink. It's a fake PR sham. It's real intent?: To "feminize" traditional male realms.
3)

Needless to say, "Gay" Rainbow. (And what's it tell us that Queer Inc.was allowed to hijack both the word definition of "gay" AND God's "rainbow"?

Here's an interesting narrative of the Rainbow Flag and it's symbolism explained as the Queer Mafia managed to usurp God's own stated symbolism:

https://www.rforh.com/resources/know-it/what-about/why-did-the-lgbt-use-gods-rainbow-for-their-flag

In 1978 San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker created his version of the rainbow flag in response to a local activist’s call for the need of a community symbol.[ugh, another word, "Communitah", that's been hijacked.]

Baker dyed and sewed the material for the first flag himself and it had 8 colors. This multi-colored flag morphed into a banner of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement, which is commonly referred to today as LGBT.

Each of the colors had a specific meaning:

• Hot Pink for sex
• Red for life
• Orange for healing
• Yellow for sun
• Green for serenity with nature
• Turquoise for art
• Indigo for harmony
• Violet for spirit.

On November 27, 1978, the openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk was assassinated. As a consequence the demand for the flag greatly increased.  So, in order to meet the demand, the Paramount Flag Company began selling a version of the flag using stock rainbow fabric consisting of seven stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and violet. Baker eventually dropped the hot pink color because he couldn’t find the fabric.

In 1979 the flag was hung vertically from the lamp posts of San Francisco’s Market Street. Because of the width of the seven stripe flag the center stripe was covered up by the post itself. In order to fix this problem they changed the design to have an even number of stripes so they dropped the turquoise stripe. That left them with the six stripe version of the flag that we see today consisting of — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.

So, even though the LGBT flag might be called by the name of God’s token of promise to all mankind, it’s NOT a true rainbow. God’s rainbow has always had seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.isn't quite tantamount to hijacking God's Rainbow on a technicality.

These people are chronic liars. I mean if Bruce Jenner can call himself a "female" then NO lie is big enough for them. Challenge that publicly and the ACLU will be suing you and homo-fascist mobs will be trying to ruin you financially.

Probably it's better to have an uppercut or level swing these days.

Yup. Especially if you're a bigger guy. The smaller guys will only wind up as we've seen hitting warning tack cans o' corn.

Jeff Bagwell had one the weirdest uppercut swings I ever saw. He managed to hit with power all over the field. He did eventually make the HOF, but he would would have been a no brainer had he not had shoulder injuries.

Bag-pipes had a weird stance too. Didn't know what it was that ended his career -- bad shoulder??

Bagwell was excellent but I always suspected PED use from him. Same of a lotta guys from the 90s.

Didn't know what it was that ended his career -- bad shoulder??

It got to a point where he had trouble even throwing a baseball. He also had his hand broken several times by being hit by pitches.

His fans are very loyal.

"On Vivid Seats,” the site reported, “the cheapest ticket rose to $115, nearly six times the $20 tickets available prior to the announcement that Tebow was an all-star."

Speaking of mechanics, back when I was hurling I came 3/4. It produced more velocity and a moving fastball. Curve broke a lot better.

THEN..."Traditional" Coach insisted I come straight over the top. Not conducive for my shoulder shape. Lost my previous velocity and movement AND control. Curve hung instead of having a slider-action. Obviously lost effectiveness, then confidence.

I would think most pitchers would be 3/4 or lower because coming directly over the top is hard on the shoulder. At least it was on mine when I tried it a few pitches and that was enough for me, shoulder hurt for a week. BTA the coaches we had when I was playing were idiots (wanted their sons and his friends to play when they sucked) so I switched over to hanging out with the beer drinkers (softball) and never looked back.

Played LCF till eyes started bothering me then went to 2B for 1 year then became the pitcher. All those years of throwing batting practice for the guys came in real handy during the games. You knew what pitch the batter wanted by his stance at the plate so you knew immediately what not to throw him, frustrated the hell out of them. :)

Only used 2 grips a 4 seam to throw a straight pitch and 2 seam for a curveball. You had to have a little bit of a breeze for the curve to bite good, calm nights it wouldn't work right. On good nights RHed batters stood no chance cause the curve came in from behind them right at head height and they constantly had to bail or step out of the box to get a swing.

Red, Unc, have you guys noticed the LOW BAs of MLB this year? Many team averages are from .225-.240. And for the first time there may be more Ks than hits! It's HR or a Whiff. Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra typically would K less than 25 times PER YEAR!

The game has become either an XBH/HR or bust.

Last night: TIE GAME. Yankees get the lead off guy on, inning 9. Fast guy at first, fast guy at bat (Brett Gardner, who can bunt, and bunt well). You need just ONE run to win; What did Gardner do? Promptly swings away and raps into a DP. EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A HERO. Baseball's olde school fundamental/situational tactics are dead.

Bombers gave away a game an inning later last night when an opposite field 340' HR was dinked into the seats. (but also NOT before loading the bases wit one out and all that was needed was CONTACT. The next two batters K'd on 6 pitches.)

Yep you hit the nail on the head. Giant slugfest. The fantasy baseball leagues are the same. They do consider BA but a guy like Choo who gets on base a lot via BB is not a popular Fantasy pick. If they offered OPS and OBP then Choo would be a top pick.

When the Giants and Cards were winning World Series every other year last decade they had a bunch of players who could get on base and move runners. That and solid rotation wins world series.

Denny McLain. Yeah, I recall him pretty well. Playing ht/wt: 6-1, 185.

He was with the Washington Senators (now Texas Rangers) in his last full year in 71.

Like today the Rangers continue to put their faith in washed up retreads.

Like today the Rangers continue to put their faith in washed up retreads.

Trying to get lucky and get something for nothing. Who knows where they'd be if they hadn't taken a flier on Colon this year. You know I bet he'd make a good pitching coach somewhere, could teach the kids how to "PITCH" instead of just flinging 95+ and hoping it misses the bat.

Read something the other day about one of the playoff contenders have or will approach the Rangers about acquiring Moore for the stretch run, I say send him in a heartbeat. (Wish I could remember what team that was). They could have kept Tyson Ross and saved themselves 2 prospects they traded to get Moore, at least Ross has an ERA 3 runs better than Moore.

Tebow's Field of Dreams

There are people I regard as "heroic"; There are only few people I would regard with great admiration for their integrity, honor, loyalty and courage. But then there's Tim Tebow. The man is as close to "hero" as I've ever had.

You can learn a lot by a person by how they treat the least of us. Tim Tebow elevates and inspires...and leads by example. A Godly man. It is sad that anyone would or could truly hate Tim Tebow.