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By DAVID O'BRIEN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/12/06

Lake Buena Vista, Fla. —Tom Glavine was upset that Braves general
manager John Schuerholz disclosed what the former Braves pitcher
considered a private matter, but a face-to-face meeting will have to
wait.

Glavine didn't make the New York Mets' trip to Disney World to face
the Braves on Saturday. Atlanta plays the Mets again Thursday at Port
St. Lucie.

In Schuerholz's new book "Born To Win," he wrote that Glavine had
a "purgatory of second thoughts" after opting for a three-year deal
with the Mets over a three-year offer to stay with Atlanta in
December 2002.

Schuerholz wrote the pitcher changed his mind in an emotional meeting
with Schuerholz and Glavine's wife at the Glavines' home, deciding he
would stay with the Braves and take their revamped two-year offer.

But two days after their meeting, Glavine told Schuerholz he was
going to stick with his Mets agreement.

Schuerholz speculates in the book that Glavine was pressured by his
agent and the players' union to take the bigger Mets offer over
Atlanta's.

Glavine addressed the issue with reporters at Port St. Lucie on
Friday. He didn't deny the meeting with Schuerholz or having second
thoughts about leaving Atlanta, but said he was upset the GM wrote
about it in a book.

"I'm a little upset about it," said Glavine, who spent 16 seasons
with the Braves and still lives in Alpharetta. "I don't think it's
anybody's business. I really don't. That's the way I've always looked
at it."

Glavine was asked if the remarks seemed hurtful.

"I'll say this and I don't want to talk about it anymore," he
said. "It's interesting to me that for somebody who's been so tight-
lipped about everything that goes on in that organization — player
transactions, this, that and the other thing — that I'm the only
player that he's ever talked about when it comes to a negotiation.

"He talks about what happened with me, what went wrong or why they
didn't sign me, and now whatever is in the book. I'm the only one
he's ever talked about. To me, there's something that's trying to be
explained, that he feels has to be explained, if that's his deal I
don't know what to say.

"From my standpoint," Glavine said, "it was a business discussion
between two people or three people that should have remained that way
and it hasn't. But that's his deal, that's not mine."

Schuerholz wrote the book with former Orlando Sentinel columnist
Larry Guest. It's scheduled to arrive in some Atlanta-area bookstores
this week and be available nationwide April 3.

During his 25 years as a GM with the Kansas City Royals and Braves,
Schuerholz was known for keeping negotiations and front-office
business private and running an air-tight organization with no
information leaks. He said Guest and the book's publishers convinced
him to be more forthcoming than he had planned to be entering the
project, but Schuerholz was happy with how the book turned out and
believed it fair and truthful.

Guest said Schuerholz struggled with the Glavine story and how much
of it he wanted to put in the book.

"John agonized over every phrase in that passage to make sure he was
telling the story in a fair way that gave maximum personal
consideration to Glavine," said Guest, who was at Saturday's Braves-
Mets game.

Glavine is in his fourth season with the Mets, a vested-option year
on his contract. He'll be eligible for free agency next winter and
said last month he could only envision pitching for the Mets or
Braves in 2007.

Whether the Braves would have or will have any interest seemed
uncertain, since they have Tim Hudson and Mike Hampton under contract
and are expected to pick up an option on John Smoltz's contract for
2007.

Glavine's 275-184 record includes a 33-41 mark since leaving Atlanta.