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Tom regrets Met finale,
MUCH AS HE SAYS he enjoyed his five years in New York, newly minted Hall of Famer Tom Glavine wishes Mets fans could get past the way it ended for him here — not just a first-inning knockout in the final game of the 2007 season, but responding to a question afterward by infamously saying that he didn’t feel “devastated” about it.
“I guess it would have been easier for me to say I was devastated,” Glavine said at the SNY studios on Thursday. “But it’s not where I was emotionally. I guess I was looking at things a little differently at that stage of my life.
“But whether I said I was devastated or not, or mad or embarrassed, any of those words, it was an awful game and it was the last way I wanted my tenure to end. Unfortunately, I still hear about it on Twitter and that type of thing.”
Glavine, elected to the Hall of Fame on Wednesday with Greg Maddux and Frank Thomas, went 61-56 during his five seasons with the Mets and won some big games for them, especially in helping them get to the 2006 postseason, and won the 300th game of his career for them as well.
But that final game — in which the Mets needed to win to clinch at-least a one-game playoff — no doubt changed the way a lot of fans remember him. In case you have forgotten, Glavine recorded just one out, allowing seven earned runs.
Glavine himself just wants fans to know that while he earned his Hall of Fame legacy mostly with the Braves, that final loss as a Met has stayed with him over the years.
“I’d give anything to go back and do it over again, but I can’t,” he said. “I understand where people are coming from, the feelings they have, but when