Producers’ Pick | Tom Glavine: Why the Yankees Are the Best Baseball Team This Season

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That was one of the moments that Tom Glavine probably would forget what he said a lot of 1996 at OCS in game seven. Glavine hit a triple guy could play you could please get hit and we all know you had a Hall of Fame pitcher pitching career with the Braves and Mets Tom Glavine is now talking golf with the teaser to be in the 2022. American Century championship because he could do it all. Tom welcome back.

I like a lot to live up to Brian I know you did it you lived it out last year. New York I actually watched you guys when you the first time I heard of how great you young pitching staff was WFAN, which is all sports radio station here in New York was at Mickey Mantle's and you guys came and visited Bill Mazer there any just talked about glowingly everyone. So your stats how great you guys go to be for a long time and then you edit Maddox and you will great for a long time. Yeah, you know necessarily know that I looked at was a perfect storm. I guess we so multiyear the debris at the time it had all came up through our bread and a little success in about a way that he had probably the best pitcher in the National League at that time Greg Maddox was responding on.

I think the best thing was we in obviously we all had talent but I think we all respected back to one another and generally wanted each other to do well and then knew how important we were to the overall goals of the team so we had friendly competitions between one another. No question we got a motivated each other you know somebody went out had a good game the night before. You want to block new one a little bit better so it would lead. We drove each other in man know it was a lot of fun. I made a B cup, you look at it now got the company today game economically speaking to keep a rotation like that together so we were fortunate yet had a luxury to have a luxury tax. Now I guess you could spend all back then. It's kind of a salary cap this way is functioning Tommy forgetting about John Rocker. Another time as I started doing sports or infarcts that when sports became news, I would cover it. And when John Rocker came to town. That was some crazy times when you say yeah yeah let a little by whether Sports Illustrated article so that year we came back. Our first game the first game to be saved out in LA we went out to shake hands after the game and we got showered with all kinds of things, so it was became a dangerous endeavor to go out and shake at the end of the game one when John closed… Of course, this is something you won't forget for sure cuts 35, 1995 game six Mark Wallace your thoughts. You know I saved a long time coming up and you come up short a couple times 91 to 92.B 93, which you know what that game. I think we probably was probably one of the best teams we had assembled in at the historic come back the second year and I think we'll get to gas.

When we got to the postseason, but to finally when you know was a great feeling obviously and I think what made it even better was you know largely it was the same group that had been through the disappointment with some changes here and there but for the most part the nucleus of that gene had been together for to experience the losses in the World Series.

So to ultimately do it with largely the same group was so caught up on time and I think we look at it and were disappointed we only got the one but you know we got beat by some pretty good teams.

Mother got beaten on the following year against the Yankees. He had a chance to repeat where acting up and then an been getting done but it may look working straight division titles and the company ever expected. So we have we have an opportunity every year so far right, absolutely. I soon came to New York in 2003, 2007 card card here by WABC to see everyone members is a met menu ended up with the Braves, but you started from 87 2000 to accomplish all that is what your former teammate who's going to be golfing in the American Century championship along with you who's really good golfers well.

John Smoltz said about the Braves chance of catching your former team, the Mets, but we have 114 a row and now just four games back in the Mets cut 40 in Atlanta, catch the Mets. I don't hear the scream.

I've seen internationally and much like you want a good hold onto that greatly.

Although I don't think that's the case this year and I believe the New York Mets want to expand guy's team get taco pleasantly surprised to hear and make a real so that's the analyst, John Smoltz was Tom Glavine think. I don't disagree with a lot of that I'm not going to go so far the Braves can't catch the Mets put it on. I think that if you're if you're a Mets fan.

You have to be incurred by what's gone on a menu you got up for her for my game lead in the division now you know the Braves.

Obviously, 114 and the road and a big brown and you anticipate monarchy behind you once more general against ground but the Mets have held been there and entered John's point there very deep team obviously to be able to be where they are given that they been without the bra matures are and you know I think if you're Mets fan like I said you you see where you are and your view is that your fan by saying in the middle of June to be four games up on the Braves have a large part of our season with art without our two horses ensures underground.

I think every Mets fan will grow by that so being where they are and knowing that sugars are always close to coming back from you know what almost to be able to come back the second half of the year would almost be like yellow trade deadline cut a deal for them.

I would be huge.

So I think it a lot of it depends on whether or not Maxson and the Brom are are able to make significant contributions over the second half of the year. And lastly, the big story at the baseball as the Yankees helps 30 games over 500 on this deal in the off-season, you know New York's like time they were talking about right catchments got a go. This team is to be broken up and now no one can stop and they won six in a row again. Aaron George looks like he's going to break Roger Marist's record 16 single season. I guess it's at least a team record. Well, 61, I should say cut 38 32. How do you explain his success. 67 guy was needing much ravage in the minors is changed a lot that any staying healthy these days.

How does Tom Glavine pitch judge how you explain what are the big challenges carefully looking for a lot of guys if that's the beauty of baseball.

I think that the more so than a lot of sports. You just don't know when it got light bulbs going to walk for a guided start figure stuff out in your area drug obviously is a huge talent just a monster of a guy physical guy mean if he put it all together then then you don't know what he's capable of all your you and see what he capable of doing that to get started to glimpse of that glimpses about it and you know you just such a presence in that lineup of presence in the batters box, you can make if you cannot hit a ball and still get it out of the ballpark so the opposing pitcher.

He's really one of those guys that you you you look at you say well you can't you can't repeat too much. You got it you constantly change speed and constantly change locative and hope you don't make a mistake is a good chance you got to get you but the that's why baseball players.

I think in general are so boring. Brian is because if we listen we listen to every time you know pond and said that our team will got a stinker we were going to stink or this guy needed to go and then you end up everybody in the being wrong.

We would all go crazy so I think that's why are you in our game you really do tend to try to stand and even kill and not listen to a lot of stuff because so much so many things change in baseball from from you know a month-to-month standpoint that you'd be crazy if you got caught up in everything people said this is America's socks with you throughout your busy day subscribe and listen. Now it's Fox's largest.com or wherever you get your projects. I took Tom how soon I know your good hockey player to. So now you play golf. The 2022 American Century championship you to be there with the punches. Others saw celebrities and sports celebrities before delivery raise 6 million for charity. How serious you take this.

It is in the golf channel beginning to tomorrow is meeting starts July 8 hearing on the golf channel July 8 and Saturday and Sunday on ninth and 10th with 600,000 at stake. So how do you approach this tournament we all take pictures with the premier celebrity event.

Obviously, an analog coming for a lot of guys to play in the tournament and I guess in patches you could put me in that category you don't, you know you don't have a chance to win but just don't want to go out there and he will play well and you know there are guys around you that you look at your sale catalog want to be back. I want to be back. I want to finish in the top 20 are want to finish in the top 25. Whatever. So it's you take it seriously you you you drive yourself to go out there to try and play well. It's an uncomfortable environment for all about Saturday golfer you know because there's a gallery you gotta put everything out in you know there's always the embarrassment factor, but it's a blast. I mean you get think you get those competitive juices going to watch her a lot about retired athletes. There's not a lot to does that anymore. So to be able to block their accounting have that feeling of nervousness again when you get on that Thursday on it's a lot of fun but you are quite a number years now so you know they're guided I see out there every year that it's always fun to go back and see him and play against the men and certainly some of the guys are playing today that we all watch on TV to get an opportunity to meet some of those guys.

So that really is a great event, but the I'm looking to you can apply better this year.

Brian I didn't play very well last year so long. My mom, I'm looking to be one of the surprising teammate is with a loss of playoffs of the Del Negro is in the playoff last year she can let small speech. Again, although I hear it's pretty awesome pretty darn good if I can't win the dancer want to be So that my secondary guide to Tom Leslie's are you worried at all about baseball people talk about his pickup the game of what we could betray what changes should they be more open to it. The DH in both leagues.

For now, what would you are you concerned about the game for the big picture not enough of the baseball not like you and a great player but for the ones for the for the ambivalence for spending moves to big events I'm and I think even for the lifelong baseball fan like myself there's concern that I don't I don't necessarily love the game the way it right now. I hate all the pitching changes. I hate all the analytics you not think for fans across the board.

There is a concern. You know about the three outcome game right what homerun walk and strikeout is all we ever see there's very little strategy anymore. You know, for the lesson baseball fan you know they don't want to go to the ballpark and sit there for 3 1/2 hours and watch. Nothing happened, so I think those are all concerned and give baseball credit they been open to some change in certainly a lot of things that they're implementing at the minor league level experimenting with trying to think and bring up the big-league level but no.

I deftly think there's some things that that can change you need to change both from a length of game standpoint and from just a pure action standpoint, I think the game needs more action right. I just want to tell people he can use analytics and I guess you know I agree I agree the idea that Tom, great talking, you always and thanks for using New York. I managed to do what a great career. Thanks so much for joining us that our urologists and the worldwide resources. A Fox box whether podcast's personal powerful subscriber.

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