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6B ♦ 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. 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This happens rndp one time a year!! t*> ["All Of Us At The Houston Ifaily Journal Would like To Wish Everyone A Happy Thanksgiving! J 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 How Our Country Began Celebrating Thanksgiving... 1 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 The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance r a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists. The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11,1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, mmm u wmsw • mwr m fonett to Ipili mti SMAJIASIf carpetsalVage 4588 Log Cabin Dr., Macon Ga • 474-4447 ■ FARM SUPPIXIN^® mm ‘We carry tfiese fine 6rancfs: Pjrjj W lg Spring is just around the corner, it's time jH| to get the soil ready for planting with |||k Ip fertilizer and lime. 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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 the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast -- including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true “thanksgiving" observance. It lasted three days. October of 1777 marked the first time that all 13 colonies joined in a thanksgiving celebration. It also commemorated the patriotic victory over 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 of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale's obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who set it up one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season. Public uproar against this decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday of the month of November. Happy Thanksgiving from the staff of the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agricenter Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agricenter Perry. 1 75 at Exits 134 & 135 478/987-3247 or 800/9873247 (Georgia oaiy) www.gnfa.com or www.georgianatlonalfalr.com 41101 Wftan/v Houston County for 36 years of continued support. We would (ike to wish you fr your families a very happy &? heafthy Thanksgiving : "home decor _ Houston Mall, ) >l msl Warner Robins | Tech COMPUTER SERVICES tA “Thanks to our €l customers and may fIL you be blessed this Sq Thanksgiving. ” wIIKE BAKER 1109 Washington Street • Perry, GA 31069 : Ph0ne:(478)987-8040 Fax:(478)987-8166 | mike@techknowinc.cgm»wwyyechknpwjnc.gam HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL 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. [KNOW "Tm?l 00040834 | 41103