Watch Cy Young Winner Max Scherzer Strike Out Tim Tebow In 49 Seconds

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There’s no athlete I want to succeed more than Tim Tebow. Last month, I ran into him at a College Football National Championship event in Atlanta and worked up the courage to ask him for a photo. He immediately diverted his attention from the 8 smiling females vying for his attention and said “absolutely, man.” We snapped a photo, I posted it on my Instagram, and now my high school ex is probably wishing she didn’t dump me for Trevor Rand. I contemplated asking him to go on a Christian mission to Haiti with me, but then remembered I hadn’t been to church since my first communion.

For a moment, I felt like Tim genuinely wanted to take a picture with me, and the hundreds of sick kids he visits probably feel the same way. I remember thinking “What a guy. What a fucking guy.”

If character translated to baseball skill, Tebow would be Mickey Fucking Mantle. But it doesn’t, and we know this because Curt Schilling was a Cy Young winner.

Friday, in a Spring Training game, the New York Mets slotted Tim Tebow as the cleanup hitter against Max Scherzer and the Washington Nationals. Yeah, the same Max Scherzer who won the Cy Young three times.

It didn’t take long for Scherzer to retire Tebow. 49 seconds and three pitches to be exact.

This isn’t the first time Scherzer has gotten the best of Tebow. As For the Win points out, the 2-time NL strikeout leader retired Tebow swiftly last year.

Tebow would have sent Scherzer deep if he didn’t trip on a sprinkler and sprain his ankle the other day. I’m sure of it.

[h/t For the Win]