Tim Brown, Yahoo! Sports: "You know, Tim Tebow could be Roy Hobbs, or trying to be, if we didn’t know exactly where he was at every minute of the past decade. Yes, a very mysterious fellow, this Tebow, other than his knack for ubiquity. Granted, this baseball thing is right off the midnight train. He even bats left-handed like Robert Redford, though not like Roy Hobbs himself, who in the book version, the real version, hits from the other side. Yeah, messed me up, too. Anyhow, Tebow, the former quarterback and occasional tight end, announced he would, at nearly 29, seek a career in professional baseball, more than a decade after he raked as a high school junior. According to his agent, Tebow spent a good part of the past year training to be a ballplayer, and in the coming weeks will conduct a showcase for interested Major League Baseball teams. Meantime, you can bet every independent ball team in the country has its T-shirt designer and bobblehead maker on high alert. Tebow as an outfielder could work, sure. Great athlete. Played baseball in high school. Big, strong, dedicated to his craft. Young enough, perhaps, to get something out of this. The man looked big on a football field. Imagine what he’d look like next to semi-regular guys. It is baseball, however, and everything changes when they start with the sliders and curveballs, so we’ll see how that works out. If you were to pick a guy to pull this off – no competitive ball for 12 years, training for a different sport for longer than that, creeping up on his 30s – you could do worse than Tim Tebow. Guy’s a beast. And still it’s a ridiculous long shot."