Tim Tebow hits 3-run homer on 1st swing in Double-A for Mets

[yallerdawg]

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Tim Tebow sure knows how to make an entrance.

Playing his first game in Double-A ball, Tebow hit a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw. The New York Mets minor leaguer connected on a frigid Thursday night at home for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in the Eastern League, facing Portland.

Last April, Tebow also homered in his first at-bat with the Class A Columbia Fireflies of the South Atlantic League.

This time, the former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback sent a liner far over the fence down the right-field line as the crowd at NYSEG Stadium stood and cheered the 30-year-old outfielder.

Link to tweet

Oh, yeah! Tiger's back!

[Lint Head]

1. Did he take a knee?

[True Dough]

2. PAGING BROTHER BUZZ!!!

[Brother Buzz]

9. Note: Timmy hit a home run in his first at bat for the Fireflies

He, again, homered in his first day with St. Lucie Mets.

He batted .222 with the Fireflies, .231 for the St. Lucie Mets, finishing for the season batting .226.

Applying some fuzzy logic to these promotions, Timmy could finish this season batting a blistering .250. His numbers might be higher, say .260 to .275. (MLB average), if he stopped aiming for the fence.

[yallerdawg]

10. Here's a plan!

Mets call him up, rides the bench until the absolute most opportune time - when they need a run!

Put him in for his first at-bat!

You'd see the Met's Nation take a knee or two then!

[Brother Buzz]

12. Then put him on a bus and send him back to the minors?

Hell, a perfect batting average of 1.000 in MLB would look cool on his resume.

[True Dough]

14. Timmy going to dominate another sport

at the ownership level!

Tim Tebow is bringing professional hockey to Lake Tahoe.

The ECHL Board of Governors has approved the expansion application for a team in Lake Tahoe beginning in the 2024-25 season. The franchise will be owned by Tebow, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner with the University of Florida and former NFL quarterback with the Denver Broncos and New York Jets.

He'll own the team with David Hodges, CEO of Hodges Management Group, LLC, which owns three auto dealerships and real estate investment firms in Georgia.

"The ECHL proudly welcomes the 29th Member Team to the League in the brand-new Tahoe Blue Event Center, expanding our geography in the western part of the continent, and creating natural rivalries for visiting fans with the Idaho Steelheads, Utah Grizzlies, and the entire Mountain Division," said ECHL Commissioner Ryan Crelin said in a statement.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/37990565/echl-approves-tim-tebow-owned-minor-league-team-lake-tahoe


Be sure to get season tickets as a show of support, Brother Buzz, even if you never attend a game!

[Brother Buzz]

15. Lake Tahoe?

I wonder if that rarefied 6,000 foot air will give the 'yet to be named' home team an advantage.

AA hockey, Baby!

[True Dough]

16. I really hope

Timmy goes with the name Lake Tahoe Buzzards in your honor, Buzz!

[Brother Buzz]

17. The buzzard was sacred to the late Lew Welch (Huey Lewis' stepfather)

Listening to Gary Snyder speak in worth the time
https://poetrysociety.org/listen/song-of-the-turkey-buzzard-on-the-poetry-of-lew-welch-with-gary-snyder

Song Of The Turkey Buzzard





For Rock Scully who heard it
the first
time

Praises, Tamalpais,
Perfect in Wisdom and Beauty,
She of the Wheeling Birds

I.

The rider riddle is easy to ask,
but the answer might surprise you.

How desperately I wanted Cougar
(I, Leo, etc.)
brilliant proofs: terrain,
color, food, all
nonsense. All made up.

They were always there, the
laziest high-flyers, bronze-winged,
the silent ones

"A cunning man always laughs and smiles,
even if he's desperately hungry,
while a good bird always flies like a vulture,
even if it is starving."

(Milarepa sang)


Over and over again, that sign:


I hit one once, with a .22
heard the "flak" and a feather flew off, he
flapped his wings just once and
went on sailing. Bronze

(when seen from above)

as I have seen them, all day sitting
on a cliff so steep they
circled below me, in the up-draft
passed so close I could see his
eye.



Praises Tamalpais,
Perfect in Wisdom and Beauty,
She of the Wheeling Birds


Another time the vision was so clear another saw it, too.
Wet, a hatching bird, the shell of the egg streaked with dry scum,
exhausted, wet, too weak to move the shriveled wings, fierce
sun-heat, sand. Twitching, as with elbows (we all have the same
parts). Beak open, neck stretched, gasping for air. O how we
want to live!

"Poor little bird," she said, "he'll never make it."


Praises, Tamalpais,
Perfect in Wisdom & Beauty,
She of the Wheeling Birds


Even so, I didn't get it for a long long while. It finally came
in a trance, a coma, half in sleep and half in fever-mind. A Turkey
Buzzard, wounded, found by a rock on the mountain. He wanted
to die alone. I had never seen one, wild, so close. When I reached
out, he sidled away, head drooping, as dizzy as I was. I put my
hands on his wing-shoulders and lifted him. He tried, feebly, to
tear at my hands with his beak. He tore my flesh too slightly to
make any difference. Then he tried to heave his great wings. Weak
as he was, I could barely hold him.

A drunken veterinarian found a festering bullet in his side,
a .22 that slid between the great bronze scales his feathers were.
We removed it and cleansed the wound.

Finally he ate the rotten gophers I trapped and prepared
for him. Even at first, he drank a lot of water. My dog seemed
frightened of him.

They smell sweet
meat is dry on their talons

The very opposite of
death

bird of re-birth
Buzzard

meat is rotten meat made
sweet again and

lean, unkillable, wing-locked
soarer till he's but a

speck in the highest sky

eye finds Feast! on
baked concrete

free!

squashed rabbit ripened:
our good cheese

( to keep the highways clean, and bother no Being )



II.

Praises Gentle Tamalpais
Perfect in Wisdom and Beauty of the
sweetest water
and the soaring birds

great seas at the feet of thy cliffs



Hear my last Will & Testament:

Among my friends there shall always be
one with proper instructions
for my continuance.

Let no one grieve.
l shall have used it all up
used up every bit of it.

What an extravagance!
What a relief!

On a marked rock, following his orders,
place my meat.

All care must be taken not to
frighten the natives of this
barbarous land, who
will not let us die, even,
as we wish.

With proper ceremony disembowel what I
no longer need, that it might more quickly
rot and tempt

my new form






NOT THE BRONZE CASKET BUT THE BRAZEN WING

SOARING FOREVER ABOVE THEE O PERFECT

O SWEETEST WATER O GLORIOUS



WHEELING





BIRD

[True Dough]

11. I wrote "Paging Brother Buzz"

Not "Brother Buzzkill"

[pangaia]

3. It was like 35 degrees today. Perfect baseball weather.

[El Supremo]

4. !!!

[yallerdawg]

5. "Whatever works!"

[tymorial]

6. Impressive.

[CanonRay]

7. Double A is a long, long way from the show.

Can't wait till this Jesus freak flames out.

[Brother Buzz]

8. But Double A is certainly a step up from Single A

Hell, with the promotion would assume his batting average will go up with Jebus coaching him

[Brother Buzz]

13. Tim Tebow's stats from first week in Double A

Tim Tebow's stats from first week in Double A

See ball, hit ball has become a challenge for Tim Tebow during his first week in Double-A since homering in his first at-bat.

Since blasting a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw this season for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Tim Tebow has struggled to put the ball in play against quality pitching at the Double-A level.

Just four games in, Tebow has hit a wall during his first week with eight strikeouts in his first 15 at-bats. Tebow's only hit in 14 trips to the plate since his long ball was a single to first base on Monday against the Akron RubberDucks.

Hitting seventh and playing left field, Tebow's .133 average is third-worst among regulars and strikeout total a team-high.

"Baseball's a game where it's never too high and never too low," Tebow said after the season opener. "It's just one at-bat and just one pitch, so you have to be focused. Tomorrow is another day where I have to improve."

Tebow worked on a new swing this offseason, a shortened power stroke designed to come faster through the zone. But off-speed pitches remain Tebow's primary weakness.

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