cubs take it 2-1. >> tom glavine was drafted by the l.a.ings and could have played hockey with wayne gretzky. instead, he chose baseball and pitched for 22 years, 17 with atlanta. after how the braves treated the future hall of famer, they might get two minutes for roughing. trying to come back from surgery on his left shoulder and elbow, the 43-year-old glavine says he was released to make room for top pitching prospect tommy hanson to be promoted this weekend. >> i feel i guess a sense of betrayal a little bit, i have a little bit of resentment for the way things were handled. i didn't feel it was a performance issue. i felt as though it was a business issue and they had better options with tommy hanson or medlen or -- as things turned out they had an opportunity to get nate mclouth and by not paying me, i think that freed up principles of limited government. the idiots that people like my mom instead of going on welfare we should reformate because getting the job from an employer is better than getting a job offer from the government bec

the hitter who hit the home run for the only run of the notices , tom glavine, davis justice and mark wellers were all drafted by us. that is what we are setting out to build and what we are building. i know what our record is today, and believe me, it is more frustrating to me than any hundred fans could feel. i still don't sleep after losses because it is just how i am. but every night, especially in the last month or so, i go home encouraged by another quality start, or stuff i see is going to developing into a big-time starter. we set out this off-season knowing that we had young starters coming. we set out this off-season to work on our offense. i thought we did a good job of that. and i think our owner stepped up as they have always said they will when the time was right. there were two left-handed bats that would fill our order. mark tissue, and adam dunn. we tried to get both of them, we only needed one, and we got one. i think all of you have seen the kind of impact a big left-handed bat has made in our lineup. i think we have our offense in place or about to fall into place.

.: i once pitched a playoff game in cincinnati where tom glavine who is on his way to the hall of fame, threw six double play balls in a 1-0 victory. he kept the ball at the middle of the plate, turned it over. added a little bit, subtracted. >> rob: that's the thing we've been talking about is not falling into this frame of mind where you're lulled by the pitcher into hitting his pitch. they get ahead and then they throw off speed stuff down and away. you try to pull it. you hit it on the ground, and in certain situations, instead of trying to strike out two guys, you throw one pitch, you get a double play, you get out of the inning quicker. >> jim h.: it's a called strike. well, the pitcher who has really had a positive overall effect on this pitching staff is brad bergesen. brad bergesen is exactly the pitcher you just described. two pitches, hit a ground ball to short, next guy. he does not care in the least about strikeouts. i think it's had a positive effect on the entire staff. fly ball to jones. our 737s fly to over 65 cities across the country every day. woman over p.a.: this

he didn't say he was retiring but glavine says he'll not pitch in the major lowings this year.e had been pitching in the minor leagues before being released by the braves earlier in month. the opportunities seem to be limited around the major leagues. sending this text message to waga tv in atlanta -- i'm not going to pitch and for now he'll be a full time bad -- dad. ordonez benched in detroit. manager jim leyland says he's tried everything. he's homer less in 38 straight games. prior to this year ordonez was a big hero in detroit. 2006, had that walk-off game winning shot in game four of the league championship series. the following year he led baseball, batting .363. he's been selected to a pair of all-star games since coming to detroit. speaking of the tigers the club extending jim leyland's contract through 2011. he was in the last year of his deal. he's 64 years old. it's his fourth year in detroit. led the tigers to that pennant in 2006. >> chad ochocinco, big thursday, feeling pretty good about his team this season at minicamp. he was a full participant. he said despite

about, you know, a real young kid, 28 years old for adjuster again, learned a lot from smoltz and glavine and those guys and he works well with his catcher. those are all things that help you at this level. >> johnny: and we talked during the inning break about the catching situation with nieves, mark was originally pencilled into be the starting catcher tonight, but nieves is catching ross detwiler and sometimes guys get on the same page too, don't they rob? >> yeah. i mean i was lucky enough to start rookie ball with joe and play 11 straight years with him. joe new me better than i did. in warmups he would do my delivery and stuff like that, so yeah, the more communication there is, and i don't just mean looking in for the signs and all that stuff. the more you're on the same wave lengths if that guy knows what you are going to throw before you throw it the easier it's going to be for this ball club in general. >> johnny: a shot to center field and taveras has a bead on that one. nick johnson's fly ball to center. get your family fun packs for sunday games. you can purchase the $14 uppe

i also know the following statistics, three pretty good pitchers, glavine, maddox and smotlz, when they were 2 1 and 22 years old, though threes pitchers in the major leagues had a record of 19-46. i am not comparing anyone we have today to any of them. that is not my point. my point is even the best pitchers have to go through the crucible of learning how to pitch of here. they need 20, 30 or 40 starts before they can learn how to maximize the talent they have. that is what we are going through right now with the 22-year-olds. we have been encouraged by what we have seen so far. there will be ups and downs until they turn the corner until we decide the five final guys who comprise our rotation going forward. that is what it is all about. getting a solid rotation. i said this wirnt did not winter for me, we were concentrating on finding starters. let me tell you now, it is clear to me now and most fans would agree. not only are we going to find three solid starters out of this group, we are going to find more than three starters. you probably know the kid in syracuse, ballister, and moc

three pretty good pitchers, glavin, mattocks, smolts that we had an atlanta, three pretty good pictures all three go into the hall of fame. when they were 21 and 22 those three pictures in the major leagues had a record of 19, 46. three pretty good pitchers and i'm not comparing anyone we have today to any of them. that's not my point. my point is even the best pitchers have to go through. they need their 20, 30, 40 starts before it kicks in and learn how to maximize the talent so that is what we are going for now with 22-year-olds. it's going to take time. we've been encouraged by what we seen so far but there will be ups and downs the hitter who hit the home run for the only one of the night and the picture standing on the mount closing out the game all three of them were scouted by us, drafted and signed by us. that's the kind of franchise we are trying to build and set out to build and we are building so yes i know what our record is today and believe me it's more frustrating to me than any hundred fans could possibly feel and i still don't sleep after losses because it's just how w