On Monday, the NY Mets announced Tim Tebow was headed to the minors and would play in Single-A with the Columbia Fireflies in the South Atlantic League.
Apparently the Mets announcement pissed off rival affiliate the Greenville Drive who then began shit all over Tebow on Twitter.
Welp, we know who our @BurgerKing #StrikeoutKing @ #FluorField will be 6/13-15. Guaranteed Whoppers for everyone when @TimTebow K's 3x! https://t.co/L4J5OtTMVh
— Greenville Drive (@GreenvilleDrive) March 20, 2017
Not jealous. We prefer developing future MLBers, not PR stunts https://t.co/kSllgN5Vmn
— Greenville Drive (@GreenvilleDrive) March 20, 2017
We're not judging…okay, maybe we are. Big difference in HS kids playing in Class A and 28-year-old wannabes https://t.co/NmUKODaPiA
— Greenville Drive (@GreenvilleDrive) March 20, 2017
Tebow fans were pretty pissed.
https://twitter.com/katestines/status/843999788479758337
https://twitter.com/nu1ncaa/status/844227030564687872
https://twitter.com/jaketr69/status/844040184899518464
Which forced the Drive to apologize.
I guess we'll call it a day. Thanks for playing along. Apparently some were offended & for that we apologize #LetsGlowTebow pic.twitter.com/FlmXLZ4i6z
— Greenville Drive (@GreenvilleDrive) March 20, 2017
For what it’s worth I do think Tebow should get some credit for actually trying to make it in baseball even though the Mets are probably using him as a PR stunt.