By Rob Bradford, Lowell Sun, 1/24/05
BOSTON -- Tom Glavine had heard it all before.
The radio noises emanating from his car as he tooled around Billerica in the days following Christmas were eerily similar to those in Atlanta a few years earlier.
"Selfish!" "All about the money!" "No sense of loyalty!"
They were the go-to lines for Red Sox fans everywhere as Pedro Martinez stomped out of town, heading for a four-year contract with the New York Mets. For Glavine, it was anything but easy listening.
"It was the same type of stuff that was being said in Atlanta when I signed with the Mets," said Glavine, who joined New York two years ago after 16 seasons with the Braves. "You hear everything about guys being greedy. If you lose a guy to free agency it's a terrible thing and the guy is greedy. But three days later they sign Edgar Renteria away from the Cardinals and everything is great with that."
Glavine is at the point in his life and career that he knows better than to let public opinion enter his world of reality. It's been more than 20 years since he bought that Z28 Camaro with his first pro baseball contract, a stretch that has given the Billerica High grad two Cy Young Awards, a World Series MVP and a contract which is paying him $10,765,608 for an upcoming season during which he will turn 39.
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