So, as you may have heard once or twice,  Tim Tebow is a baseball player now. The former quarterback and SEC Network analyst signed a minor-league contract with the Mets on Thursday, making official a pretty unlikely career switch.

Given that Tebow hasn’t played baseball competitively since high school and, at age 29, is running out of prime years, he’ll have to devote all his attention to his new sport.

According to ESPN PR, Tebow will continue as a football analyst for SEC Nation this fall, despite beginning his baseball career at the same time.

Tebow will reportedly begin his baseball career in the Mets’ Instructional League in Port St. Lucie, Florida, which runs from September 18 through October 8. That time encompasses three Saturdays, days on which Tebow will have to juggle his baseball obligations and the schedule of SEC Nation, which broadcasts from a different SEC school each week.

So how will Tebow manage to be in both For St. Lucie and, say, 882 miles away in Oxford, Mississippi — where Ole Miss will host Georgia on September 24 — at the same time? Here are some (not to be taken too seriously) ideas:

Batting-practice satellite cam: In between swings in the cage, Tebow pops on a live feed and picks the winners of SEC games. When he has to go out in the field, he hopes no balls come his way as he analyzes Arkansas’ rushing attack.

Hologram Tebow: How about a Tupac-style hologram pre-loaded with cliches and praise for Nick Saban that can assume Tebow’s place on the SEC Nation set while he plays baseball?

Time-turner: When Hermione Granger needed to be more than one place at once (so she could take more classes, like a nerd), Dumbledore hooked her up with a time turner. Unfortunately, all existing time turners were rendered useless during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, so that might not work for Tebow. (Side note: Why didn’t Dumbledore just use a time turner to go back and defeat Voldemort or save Harry’s parents or something? Those things weren’t as important as Hermione’s class schedule?)

Well, as I was writing this, the actual explanation emerged, and it was thoroughly predictable:

Blow off baseball: Tebow will leave the Instructional League on Saturdays to appear on SEC Nation.

This makes perfect sense for Tebow that his future is much brighter in TV than it is in baseball. But the whole point of this baseball venture is that he’s doing whatever it takes, that you will never see someone push as hard as he will push, that you will never see someone play harder than he will. If Tebow isn’t all-in on baseball, what exactly is the use?

About Alex Putterman

Alex is a writer and editor for The Comeback and Awful Announcing. He has written for The Atlantic, VICE Sports, MLB.com, SI.com and more. He is a proud alum of Northwestern University and The Daily Northwestern. You can find him on Twitter @AlexPutterman.

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