{"id":156,"date":"2007-07-31T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-07-31T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T15:53:15","slug":"tommy-is-jealous-of-jules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Is Jealous Of Jules"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AJC has a story up about Glavine getting booed in Atlanta<\/a>, which features Tom-Tom pouting about the fact that we never booed Julio when he was with the Mets. <\/p>\n

I personally feel no nostalgic responsibility to Glavine whatsoever, but I never even liked him much when he was with the Braves (I appreciated his talent, of course, but he wasn’t one of my guys<\/i>), I think mostly because as a kid I had this baseball card that showed him playing hockey. He looked like such an ass on that card, and as a ten year old, that was pretty much it for me and Tom Glavine. <\/p>\n

But more importantly, how in holy hell could anyone boo Julio<\/i>? He comes to the plate to gospel music about Jesus. He’s a non-threatening, Grandpa-like figure, Tommy, so don’t get all worked up. It’s more of a compliment, really, that we direct our hate toward you instead.<\/p>\n

The Lemmer is of course sympathetic:<\/p>\n

“I don’t care for it,” Lemke said of the boos. “I don’t know why anybody has those feelings, because Tom Glavine won the World Series for Atlanta. I know he gave everything he could, his whole heart, to the Atlanta Braves.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, if he gave us his whole heart (like Smoltz has, for example), is he heartless and disinterested as a competitor for the Mets? I kind of doubt it. <\/p>\n

Glavine will be back at Turner Field Aug. 31-Sept. 2 for a Braves-Mets series. How will Atlanta greet him as a 300-game winner?<\/i><\/p>\n

Apologies to the Lemmer, but I’m going to that series, and I’ll be booing the hell out of Glavine during his start, just like I did on opening weekend (when Smoltz kicked his ass). Cause what’s a Mets series without booing Glavine? It’s part of the fun! Get into the rivalry and get over it, Tommy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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