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According to Metstradamus, last night’s win was just what the doctor ordered.
In a post to Faith and Fear in Flushing, Jason concludes that 
the Mets are just an average team – except for every fifth day, when Johan Santana takes the mound.
By the way, Santana hit two doubles for the Mets. To learn more about the other six pitchers in Mets history who have hit two doubles in one game, go to Mets Walk-offs.
Lastly, if you still care about Tom Glavine, and gossipy news from his time with the Mets, check out Adam Rubin’s blog for the Daily News, in which he reveals that Glavine asked the Wilpons for the Roger-Clemens treatment, which comes courtesy of John Feinstein’s new book about Glavine and Mike Mussina.
Oh, goody, another reason to despise Tom Glavine!
Why is that a reason to despise him? He wanted to be near his family. He’s had a long and very successful career and now he wants to be near his family. Nothing wrong with that.
if anything, it makes me feel better about him leaving. It says to me, he didn’t hate being a Met, he went back to the Braves to be closer to home. He inquired about it, he didn’t insist. When the Mets didn’t entertain the idea, he dropped it. No big deal.
Glavine gets way too much hate around here. Was he as good as I hoped he’d be? No, but he took the ball every fifth day, didn’t shy away from the media and was a spokesman for the team. He was good in the community and was completely professional in his time here. He had the misfortune of pitching for some bad teams his first few years (although, he could have pitched better himself, of course) and then picked the wrong time to have one of the worst starts of his life. I never had a problem with his “devastated” comment, because I thought he was right. He was upset, he was angry, he was disappointed, just like I was. I moped around for weeks, but I wasn’t devastated — to me that’s a whole different context and shouldn’t be applied to a baseball game. He’s even tried to better explain himself on several occasions, and some Mets fans still won’t let it go.
He’s had a long and very successful career — he’s going to the Hall of Fame — and now he wants to spend his last year near his wife and family. I can’t blame him for that.
See, you have the same problem as Glavine. You take “despise” literally in the same way he takes “devastated” literally. Of course I don’t see him as the second coming of Osama bin Laden, nor does anyone in their right mind think that he should have been equating a baseball game with the death of a family member. But the fact remains, given what his team had put us all through for the previous month, given his god-awful performance when we needed him the most, the sentence “I’m not devastated” is probably the worst possible thing he could’ve said at that point. Goodbye and good riddance.
But when something is taken out of context, the meaning can always be skewed. He talked about how disappointed he was and how bad he felt. No one ever seems to remember that part.
The NY papers just cherry-picked that quote and ran with it, making it seem as if he didn’t care at all. Which is far from the truth. Glavine has been a stand-up guy, a complete professional all his career. Do you really think he just stopped being that way after that game?
He wasn’t good that game, not even close. There’s no arguing that. But neither was Ollie two nights before…or (insert name here) for the previous two weeks. Glavine didn’t lose us the division last year — he just lost the last game. And he felt awful about it.
i can’t think of two pitchers i’d rather read a book about less than glavine and mussina
Agreed. I’d sooner read a book about Anthony Young and Jerry DiPoto.