{"id":714509,"date":"2017-07-10T01:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=714509"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:57:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:57:23","slug":"are-we-still-trying-and-why-am-i-quoting-tom-glavine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/are-we-still-trying-and-why-am-i-quoting-tom-glavine\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Still Trying? And Why am I Quoting Tom Glavine?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I never thought that I would cite Tom Glavine to make a point … but I’m going to cite Tom Glavine to make a point. I know Glavine is the author of the “disappointed not devastated” line, and we’re all still pretty upset at him because he was probably a spy all along. But go with me on this one. Hold my hand as we go over the cliff …<\/p>\n
Though some of the details escape me, I remember clearly a New York media type talking about how he either went on the radio or said in print about how much the Mets are dogging it, aren’t trying, have no effort … so on and so forth. Tom Glavine took this reporter\/radio host aside and said to him (paraphrasing)\u00a0“look, go ahead and talk about how much we suck, that we’re not talented, that we can’t play the game to save our lives. But don’t say we’re not trying. That’s an insult to the guys in the room that put a ton of time preparing each and every day.”<\/p>\n