Former Mets player rips organization for 'mockery of our team' by signing Tim Tebow: 'We weren’t playing to win'
Andrew Church waited until he was done with professional baseball to speak his truth. Once he did, it didn’t hold back much at all.
The former New York Met player called out the organization on many levels, including the signing of Tim Tebow.
Following his decision to retire from the game, Church shared his thoughts on the money grab the Mets made by signing Tebow and how it hurt the organization from a win-loss perspective.
“[The Mets] made a mockery of our team by putting a celebrity on it to sell more tickets. I saw players lose their jobs because of it. We weren’t playing to win, we were playing to make everyone else money. Not the players. We never saw a cut. Well, allegedly that one player [Tebow] did. I think people are starting to understand that more now but they didn’t in 2018 when it was happening again. I was fed up. I spent my whole childhood honing in my passion and anger, to not let it get out of control, but it was and I was going to explode. So I took the opposite direction, I bottled it and silenced myself. I took some time away and cleared my head.”
You can view Church’s comments on Tebow below as they are part of the caption to the video below.