As you may have heard, the Atlanta Braves shocked the baseball world by unceremoniously releasing Tom Glavine, a three hundred game winner who will undoubtedly be immortalized in Cooperstown with an “A” on his cap.

Michael Silverman of the Herald tells us that Boston is on the short list of teams Glavine would consider pitching for, and I guess that isn’t very surprising, considering he spent his formative years wearing the patented Merrimack Valley hockey mullet.

I know what you’re thinking…”you can never have enough pitching”.  Hey, guess what!  It turns out you actually can have enough pitching.  Weird, huh?  The experts have been wrong all this time.  The tyrants who write the MLB rule book have decided that teams can only carry 25 players at any given time, which means that the Red Sox actually have enough pitching.  The only way Tom Glavine could end up pitching here is if the Red Sox experience some sort of Marshall University football team type of event.  Simply put, Brad Penny is certainly a better pitcher than Tom Glavine right now.

While a quick stop in Boston would have been the perfect final chapter to a legendary career, it’s not going to happen.  If I had to guess, I’d say that Glavine threw his last MLB pitch in 2008.

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