Wednesday, March 08, 2017

I don't quite see the point, maybe he's selling a lot of Spring Training merchandise.

On the other hand, I'm also guessing that Harper never noticed an on-deck circle snafu before simply because Harper wasn't paying attention:

"Maybe it wasn't quite the same as a rookie quarterback nervously lining up under the guard rather than the center to take the snap, but Tim Tebow's lack of baseball experience proved embarrassing before he ever got in the batter's box on Wednesday.

It's not often you see a hitter walk across to the other team's on-deck circle to get ready to hit. Actually, you never see that, not even in high school, where Tebow last played before signing on for this sideshow with the Mets.

It was so unusual that Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello, warming up at the time, said he assumed it was a bat boy when he noticed someone in a Mets' uniform walking behind the plate to the Red Sox side of the field.

When home plate umpire Ryan Addition noticed, he had to tell the former Heisman Trophy winner to get back to his side of the field.

Afterward Tebow said he thought because he's a lefthanded hitter, he should go to that side. He said Jacob deGrom kidded him, 'I won't tell anybody but I saw it.' "

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