Mariners' minor-league affiliate is reportedly interested in Tim Tebow

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It could be Tebow Time for the Seattle Mariners organization.

According to a report from TMZ, the Bakersfield Blaze, the club's advanced Single-A affiliate, are interested in Tebow.

This is not a joke. Tebow announced Tuesday through his agents that he wants to pursue a baseball career.

"We would love to invite him out to see a game and before that we would set up a meeting for him to speak with the our team and coaches and put him up in a hotel," Blaze general manager Mike Candela told the popular gossip website.

Tebow, who turns 29 Sunday, hasn't played baseball since 2005, when he was an all-state player his junior season at Nease High School in Florida. He hit .494 that year and helped them to the semifinals of the state playoffs.

Tebow, who then won the Heisman Trophy in 2007 during a wildly successful college career at Florida, had a brief,. albeit eventful NFL tenure, before eventually flaming out. He currently works as an ESPN analyst with the SEC Network.

He held a tryout with the Dodgers prior to the season, according to ESPN's Darren Rovell, and is expected to hold another for major-league teams at the end of the month. The Schaumberg Boomers, an Independent League team based in Illinois, offered Tebow a contract on Tuesday.

It's important to note the Mariners -- not the Blaze -- would have to sign Tebow.

A spokesperson for the Blaze acknowledged as much in an email Tuesday afternoon.

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