Mussina Dislikes People Who Suck & Glavine Makes Excuses

I wrongly prophesied that Mike Mussina would have a terrible season this year...at least so far. But Ken Davidoff, the Newsday "sports reporter" wrote a great "blog" on some excerpts from a recently released book by John Feinstein.

"You probably won't be shocked to learn of Mussina's contempt for the always-injured Pavano, but you'll laugh nonetheless. When Mussina was negotiating a new contract with the Yankees in October 2006, Brian Cashman offered him a two-year, $18-million package..."Brian, you're not paying me less than you're paying Carl Pavano," Mussina responded. "Don't insult me." Mussina wound up re-signing for two years and $23 million."

I can't blame him, being in a performance based work setting myself, It angers me that I outperform numerous people who get paid a lot more than me. However, I do spend time during work writing up articles on my website here, similar to how Mike Mussina sits in the corner of the dugout doing crossword puzzles

A good friend of mine, and a member of this site, had a conversation with Michael Kay, the Yankees Broadcaster and Kay revealed to him that Mussina was a disliked member of the clubhouse. Shocker right? (sarcasm)

In the same blog by Davidoff, he wrote about former Mets pitcher Tom Glavine in this excerpt from that same book

"Feinstein writes of Glavine's distaste for Jose Reyes' and Lastings Milledge's celebrations from last year. Particularly, Glavine seems to agree with the notion that Reyes' and Milledge's actions in Game 161 of last year motivated the Marlins for the final game, when they spanked Glavine.

Glavine told Feinstein, later: "The last thing we need to be doing is giving people another reason, especially an emotional reason, to want to beat our butts." Glavine immediately knew he was in trouble when Florida's leadoff batter, Hanley Ramirez, came back from 0-and-2 for a walk. Said Glavine: "That told me that these guys weren't here just to get it over with and go home. They had come to play."

This right here makes me despise Glavine. Hanley came back 0-2 for a walk because you DID NOT throw a strike. What did you expect the Marlins to do, just let the Mets beat them? This is the Major Leagues and you of all people should know that.

The aforementioned Game 161 is when John Maine nearly pitched a no hitter. The Reyes incident he is speaking of is a conversation Jose had with Miguel Olivo at third base. He was joking with Olivo, his buddy, about "fighting him". It turned out that that Olivo didn't get the joke and this is where the intensity level rose according to Glavine. A bunch of bullshit if you ask me. YOU SUCK Glavine, stop making excuses. You pitched like shit in the last game and it was your fault not any one else's

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