June 4, 200917 yr Were any of the people ripping the Braves now hammering Glavine when he left the Braves for the Mets? Loyalty over money doesn't happen too much in baseball ... on either side.
June 5, 200917 yr Difference there is very simple, he was a free-agent at that time. That was a right that he had earned being a player in the majors. His contract was up, pretty simple to understand, really! Or @ least I thought so!
June 5, 200917 yr Were any of the people ripping the Braves now hammering Glavine when he left the Braves for the Mets? Loyalty over money doesn't happen too much in baseball ... on either side. To be honest, I hammered Glavine and the Braves. I love to see guys who have helped out teams the way Glavine did retire with those teams. Glavine never looked right in a Mets uniform and shame on the Braves for allowing him to even wear it. I will be completely and totally devastated if Kobe doesn't retire a Laker, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised. I still haven't gotten over Warren Sapp playing for the Raiders.
June 5, 200917 yr To be honest, I hammered Glavine and the Braves. I love to see guys who have helped out teams the way Glavine did retire with those teams. Glavine never looked right in a Mets uniform and shame on the Braves for allowing him to even wear it. I will be completely and totally devastated if Kobe doesn't retire a Laker, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised. I still haven't gotten over Warren Sapp playing for the Raiders. I totally agree w/this!
June 5, 200917 yr Glavine is done and Smoltz can't stay healthy. Smoltz is one of my all time favorites and if your a Braves fan you love what Smoltz, Glavine and Maddux did for the organization. I think Atl wanted to give Glavine a chance but it was a bad business move to hand him another million. I understand the move and also understand Smoltz's frustration. I also understand him having his friends back. I understand it from all sides.
June 5, 200917 yr Glavine did deserve better' date=' bottom line and I don't care who agrees w/that, that is fact! Seems Buster Olney agrees w/me and some others![/color'] It is not fact, it is an opinion.
June 5, 200917 yr Author It is not fact, it is an opinion. I agree. While I still believe what I said in that he deserved better, just because a ESPN baseball analyst said it also doesn't mean it's a fact or whatever. Still just an opinion either way.
June 5, 200917 yr I understand all sides, but not Atlanta's! What is not to understand here?? They released a broke down pitcher with no velocity and saved themselves a million bucks. I completely understand that.
June 5, 200917 yr Author What is not to understand here?? They released a broke down pitcher with no velocity and saved themselves a million bucks. I completely understand that. That is their side of the story. Time to move on.
June 5, 200917 yr Author Seems pretty cut and dry to me. The whole thing has been explained numerous times on the 1st page of this thread. Nothing more to it than what was already discussed.
June 5, 200917 yr The whole thing has been explained numerous times on the 1st page of this thread. Nothing more to it than what was already discussed. Alright? :idunno:
June 5, 200917 yr Author Alright? :idunno: Not saying anything to you but I just didn't feel like retyping everything..lol Or most of what I said is basically what Buster Onley said in his article.
June 5, 200917 yr Author Seems pretty cut and dry to me. By MIKE MORRIS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday, June 05, 2009 Former Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine said Friday that he was “blindsided” by his sudden dismissal this week from the team where he was a 10-time All Star. Interviewed Friday morning on the “Mayhem in the A.M.” radio show on 790 The Zone, Glavine said he thinks Braves officials were hoping he would get hurt so that they wouldn’t have to pay a $1 million bonus he would have been due if he had been added to the active roster. “Absolutely, they were hoping I got hurt, no question in my mind,” Glavine said. “They figured I would either get hurt, and that would be the end of it, or I would pitch so poorly that they figured I was a standup person and would say, ‘no.’” Glavine told the Associated Press on Friday that “a couple” teams have expressed interest in him as a pitcher and others have called about consulting or other jobs. He wouldn’t name the teams. He continued to tell the AP that he was incredulous when told by general manager Frank Wren, “You’re not good enough to get guys out.” The 43-year-old Glavine said he was ready for the majors after throwing six scoreless innings in a rehab start for Class-A Rome on Tuesday night. Glavine said his release from the team on Wednesday ” could have been handled a whole lot better than it was. “Looking at the whole situation, and taking into account the amount of time I’ve spent in this city and the amount of time I’ve spent in baseball, there’s no question in my mind it could have been handled better.” Glavine said Braves officials sometimes “don’t look at players and take into account what they’ve done on the field, what they’ve done off the field, what they’ve meant to the organization, what they’ve meant to the city, and say, ‘wait, these guys deserve to be treated a little bit differently than this business model we have.’” Glavine said that he had expected all along to playing in Atlanta this weekend following a rehab schedule in the minors. “I would pitch the simulated game that I pitched at Turner Field, I would then pitch a 3- or 4-inning stint in Gwinnett, followed by a 5- or 6-inning stint in Gwinnett, followed by a 90-pitch stint in Rome, then I would pitch in Atlanta on June 7, that’s what I was told,” he said. “When I signed my contract, I was pretty adamant that I was not going to spring training to make this team. I was going to spring training and proving I was healthy and getting through spring training healthy and I’m on the team, or I’m not going,” Glavine said. “If it was a tryout situation, I wasn’t going to spring training.” In his mind, Glavine said, “the way the conversations went down, the only way that I was not going to pitch in Atlanta on June 7 was if I got hurt again.” Glavine said he was blindsided Wednesday morning when he got a call “from somebody that kind of gave me a heads-up on what was going on.” He said his release was “totally financially-driven, whether it’s they didn’t want to pay me the million dollars that I would have been due to go out there and pitch and pitch one pitch, one inning, one game and get hurt - and I’m very understanding that that’s a possibility.” Glavine said that the more likely scenario involved Wednesday’s trade that brought Pittsburgh outfielder Nate McLouth to the Braves. “In order for them to pull this deal off, they had to get some money somewhere, and they got the money from releasing me,” he said.
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