Get Over it Glavine!

Tom Glavine just can’t get over the fact that the organization he spent 16 years with, the Atlanta Braves, doesn’t want him anymore.

It’s been reported that Glavine may file a grievance against Atlanta questioning the reason as to why he was released.

The Braves told the 43-year old it was due to the lack of confidence the team had in him making a successful return back from his elbow and shoulder surgery. Glavine thinks the decision was based on financial reasons.

Either way the Braves made the right move because during the same week they traded for ex- Pittsburgh Pirates stud center-fielder Nate McClouth. The trade left the Pirates players frustrated and questioning their organization’s will to win because they were only six games out of first place at the time yet still traded away their best player.

Feelings were hurt on all sides of the wheeling and dealings, but baseball is a business and business tends to get personal at times, especially in sports where your pay is based directly on your performance.

Glavine’s performance wasn’t cutting it anymore. Literally his performance wasn’t cutting it, his pitches had no more cut to them. A huge Braves fan I know told me Glavine’s pitches were looking flat, had no movement, and his fastball topped out in the low 80s.

I don’t care how long Glavine was with the Braves and all he did for the Braves, low 80s with no movement on your pitches isn’t big league material.

By the way, isn’t Glavine the same guy that left the Braves in 2002 to sign a contract with the division rival New York Mets for around the same amount of money Atlanta offered him? I know the Braves didn’t offer him the extension he wanted, but again his performance at the time wasn’t worth it to Atlanta.

So Glavine is a traitor, the Braves still took him back when he was all washed up, and now that the Braves have seen Glavine for the mediocre minor league pitcher that he currently is Glavine wants to file a grievance.

You’re a legend Glavine, one of the top left-handers ever and one of the few pitchers to record 300 wins, which may never happen again. You were part of one of the best pitching rotations ever with Greg Maddux and John Smoltz.

Just take your World Series ring, turn your back to the situation, much like you did to the Braves organization in 2002 when you left for the Mets, and enjoy your millions of dollars before you wind up being placed in the whiny pitchers club right next to Curt Schilling.