Adam Jones is an accomplished mimic. The Orioles center fielder can deliver a dead-on impersonation of Buck Showalter so well that he sends his manager into fits of belly laughter. And Jones does first base coach Wayne Kirby, Showalter told ESPN last year, "better than Kirby."
Some impersonations are worthwhile. And then there's what Jones thinks Tim Tebow is doing. The former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback wants to be a professional baseball player, after not having played it competitively since his junior year of high school.
This apparently tickles Jones.
Jones played football as a kid, so the analogy works ... to a degree. Accounts of Jones' high school football career, if there was one, aren't readily available on the internet.
In the last season of Tebow's high school baseball career, meanwhile, he batted .494 as a junior and reportedly would have been a high- to middle-round pick in Major League Baseball's draft. But that was then, and now Tebow is 29 and a TV personality.
Twitter jokes are fun and all, but the Orioles star doesn't need to prove anything on the gridiron. Adam Jones is already in the NFL anyway.