Comments on: McCain: Glavine got jobbed! (but, please, no grievance)

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:44:47 +0000

I don’t blame Glavin for going to the Mets for more money at the end of his career. At the same time I don’t blame the Braves for cutting Glavin and making space for a young promising pitcher. Glavin owed the Braves nothing when he left. The Braves owes Glavin nothing now. Just look at his record last year when he was healthy. Poor.

By: Leroy Updike

Leroy Updike — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:27:29 +0000

I could not disagree more!!! This is a matter of principle and right or wrong. Management in MLB will never improve if it is not called to account in situations like this. Fans complain about the player’s union and the only way it will ever go away is if management becomes more responsible. Letting this go away unanswered is no less than intentionally agreeing with Glavine’s treatment. No gray area!!!

By: » Grievance Update (Sorta)

» Grievance Update (Sorta) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:16:44 +0000

[...] From the AJC’s Jeff Schultz, who posted it in his blog (June 9): [...]

By: shelbydawkins

shelbydawkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:28:10 +0000

wow seeing that photo of Zane Smith brought back a lot of memories of the 80’s

By: Reality Time

Reality Time — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:14:54 +0000

First Clash: Dear Heavens man, its baseball, not a conspiracy to end the world as we know it. Get some perspective.

By: Jack P

Jack P — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:54:30 +0000

Cut out the whinning, Tom. You are washed up but do not want to admit it. Act like a man instead of a little boy. You were able to win 300 games because relief pitchers held the lead for you after you pitched 6 or 7 innings. In your career, you pitched 42 complete games, while Tom Seaver, a real winner, pitched 232 complete games. Time to stop whimping and take a seat in the real world with the rest of us working slobs. Your baseball career is over.

By: First Clash

First Clash — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:22:18 +0000

I am in full support of Glavine. He is an awesome, talented athlete, who epitomizes the best in ability, intelligence, and character. It is unfortunate that he found himself in a turmoil, not of his making, that infiltrates the core of who he is and what he stands for. He exudes wonderful qualities of genius proportion. Organizations have a vast amount of flexiblity and power and control in order to fashion Teams to their liking. For them to vacate and endanger that by overstepping their already huge boundaries and usurp a Player’s Contractural Rights and monies obligated by Law is fundamentally wrong and adverse to the way Players, Fans, and humans choose to live in a Democratic Society. A Contract is a legal document that entitles a Player to stipulated conditions and rules that govern that said instrument. Clearly the Organization does not have the right to abscond monies from a Player and dispense it at will to another Player or use it for another purpose. This is defined by Law and agreed upon by the Players and Organization. Glavine had an awesome rehab stint with proven stats that triggered the stepped progress of his Major League Contract. Anyone with a modicum of baseball knowledge would agree and would congratulate him on such outstanding results and welcome him with open arms to the next leg along his adventure that was signed off and agreed upon months earlier in a MLB Contract by both Parties in good faith. Buyer’s remorse, reneging on promises that are binding by Law, and breach of Contract by an Organization are not acceptable in our Society. To be flagrant and flaunt the piracy and lack of compassion by immediately spending those ill-gotten monies on a trade for a Player within hours of the takeover is deplorable. There was no attempt to veil or conceal the stolen funds taken from Glavine whatsoever. This poorly conjured attempt at stating that Glavine could not perform on the Major League level as an excuse for this treason demonstrates no measure of validity. Glavine soared in his prodigious comeback and absolutely nailed every accomplishment task set before him by the Organization. For them to even hint, much less brazenly announce, that this was not done is a self-serving convolution and a poorly constructed ploy that does not adhere to the facts and the stats. For them to disparage Glavine for the purpose of taking what rightfully belonged to him by Contract is unethical and illegal. For others to state that Players can not be pawns to financial concerns is indeed part and parcel within Player Contract rights; but is often overlooked and not enforced is not a reason to abort the fact that Glavines’s Contract was grossly, negligently abused. It needs to be seriously addressed and not a complacent issue in order to protect all Players and in order to ward off chaos from the power hungry organization, who in this instance proved that it will stop at nothing. Glavine’s character and athletic proven MLB caliber abilities were not just challenged but distorted beyond recognition. If an Organization doesn’t want to “Play by the Rules” and wants to reinvent Contracts and inherent lawful stipulations that it has signed off on; to measures more to its liking; then persue a path of change for the future in a reasonable, thoughtful process. It is unacceptable to dessicrate the current model especially one that was freely accorded; not under duress. It is unnecessary to storm this wonderful athlete and hijack what rightfully belongs to him: his monies, his proven skills, and his peace of mind for such shallow, callous reasons of wanting to prove dictatorship and flagrant disregard of the Laws that govern all of us in our current Society; in an attempt to keep everything vast that belongs to the Organization and all of what belongs to the Player in employ in ruthless fashion.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:54:05 +0000

Jeff:

I’ve asked this question before and I’ll keep asking it until I get an answer…Why do you keep kissing Glavine and Smoltz’ behind….Enough is Enough…Please, I beg of you, just move on…It’s 2009 sweetheart, not 1995…Please start doing articles on current/younger players who will be around for awhile, and who will be more appreciative of the $$$$$$$$$$$$ the Braves are paying them…

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By: ButlerDawg

ButlerDawg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:44:15 +0000

Jeff,
Thanks so much for modeling our new ‘Elvis Costello’ frames.

-Pearle Vision