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♦ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2006
Glavine, Andruw Jones key questions tor Braves
One last run sits
there this morn
ing, waiting for the
Atlanta Braves.
Pitcher Tom Glavine is a
free agent.
The New
York Mets
honored
the future
Hall of
Famer’s
wishes
Monday,
letting the
deadline
to exercise
the option
Adam Van
Brimmer
Morris News Service
year on
his contract pass.
Glavine has made his
future plans clear: He will
pitch next season either in
Atlanta, where he spent the
first 16 years of his career
and the city in which he and
his family reside, or back
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in New York, where he’s
worked the last four years.
The course of Atlanta’s
2007 season lies in what the
Braves’ brass decide to do
about Glavine.
Bring him home, hold
on to star center-fielder
Andruw Jones despite next
season being the last on his
contract, and make a run at
the World Series.
Or let Glavine stay in New
York, trade Jones, and focus
on developing a young and
talented team into a playoff
contender.
Don’t envy the men mak
ing that decision. General
manager John Schuerholz
and manager Bobby Cox
are among baseball’s bright
est minds, and they will no
doubt exhaust themselves
looking at all the angles of
the Glavine situation.
The gut reaction is to go
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for it. Many baseball wise
men stick to the adage: Pitch
your best today, because
tomorrow it might rain. In
other words, given a chance
at a championship next year,
don’t worry about the sea
sons that follow.
Glavine gives his team an
automatic 15 victories. Just
go ahead and pencil that
number in the win column
on April 1.
And assuming Mike
Hampton returns strong
from his two-year sabbatical
for elbow surgery and Tim
Hudson finds a piece of the
Cy Young form he showed
earlier in his career that’s
assuming a lot, I know --
Glavine makes the Braves’
starting rotation among
baseball’s best.
That said, mounting a
run next season requires a
great sacrifice. The budget
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"The Jones situation could play a vital
role in the Braves' future. Atlanta can
get talent in return It Schuerholz deals
Jones this offseason."
conscious Braves have no
chance at re-signing Jones
next winter. He will com
mand top dollar, and Atlanta
can only offer top cent.
The Jones situation
could play a vital role in
the Braves’ future. Atlanta
can get talent in return if
Schuerholz deals Jones this
offseason.
Say Atlanta gets an out
fielder and a handful of
pitching prospects in a trade.
Add those players to what’s
already on the roster, and
the Braves remain a playoff
contender without Jones.
Then again, who’s to say
the Braves in rebuilding
mode won’t be undone by
injuries or stiff competition?
That’s the rain referred to
in the baseball adage.
Keep Jones and Atlanta
gets nothing for him beyond
next October.
Schuerholz and Cox could
always hedge, of course. Sign
Glavine.
Hold onto Jones going
into the season. Evaluate
the Braves’ title chances at
the 2007 All-Star break, a
they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But
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the British at Saratoga. But it was a one-time affair.
George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in
1789, although some were opposed to it. There was discord among the
colonies, many feeling the hardships of a few Pilgrims did not warrant
a national holiday. And later, President Thomas Jefferson scoffed at the
idea of having a day of thanksgiving.
It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts
eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving. Hale wrote many
editorials championing her cause in her Boston Ladies' Magazine,
and later, in Godey’s Lady's Book. Finally, after a 40-year campaign
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obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed
the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.
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original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally
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few weeks before the trade
deadline.
They likely wouldn’t get
as much for Jones then as
they would now, but that is
an calculable risk.
The Yankees or Red Sox
cotild be so desperate next
July they might trade their
farm system for Jones just
minutes before the dead
line.
If nothing else, Glavine
would have the opportunity
to win his 300th game and
finish his career as a Brave.
That’s not the same as win
ning a World Series but
would conjure championship
memories for the fans.
Adam Van Brimmer is
an Atlanta-based writer
for Morris News Service.
E-mail him at adam.
vanbrimmerQymorris.com or
telephone him at 404-589-
8424.
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