Love him or hate him, former Florida QB Tim Tebow has revitalized minor league baseball in the southeast.

Fans are packing both the Columbia Fireflies’ stadium and stadiums where the Fireflies are playing on the road for their chance to see the Heisman Trophy winner take his swings at the plate.

However, on Friday night, the Charleston RiverDogs did a promotion where they savagely trolled Tebow throughout the entire game, using images of him crying and poking fun at his religion.

This angered many Columbia fans, as well as plenty of other people, so RiverDogs president and general manager Dave Echols was forced to apologize for the stunts:

“While we believe that our promotions were poking fun at Mr. Tebow’s celebrity status rather than his religion or baseball career, our intent was not to offend anyone, and for the fact that we did offend, we are sorry,” Echols wrote in a statement to The Post and Courier.

“Of the many promotional pieces that we executed, there were a handful on Friday’s game that some construed as in poor taste, and we made it a focus to remove those elements and celebrate Mr. Tebow the remainder of his time in Charleston.”

Though Tebow likely wasn’t bothered by the trolling, as he’s dealt with much worse in his career, it’s never smart to mock someone’s religion. Now that we’re in the Twitter age, poorly planned stunts like Charleston’s get seen by people across the country far more often than they used to.