Tom Glavine

You know, it's a question that's been asked a lot over the course of the last 48 hours, and I guess the one word that continues to come to mind for me is passion or passionate.

You know, Bobby was passionate about his family, he was passionate about baseball, and he was really passionate about his players.

So, you know, I think that passion and the dugout, not only just to win a game, but to

to fight for his players.

You know, the ejections obviously are a big part of Bobby's story, and they happen for a reason.

And most of the time, those reasons were he was either defending a player or he was trying to gain an inch, if he could, for our team.

And I think when you play for Bobby and you saw that, you saw that passion he had each and every day coming in the dugout to manage a game and, like I said, go to battle for his players, it was the kind of thing that I think was a big reason why

Everybody who played for Bobby felt like they would run through a wall for Bobby.

You know, I don't think so, unfortunately, in today's game because, you know, so much of Bobby's era, you know, those guys...

You know, they knew how to go out and argue, and they knew how to go out and argue either to keep a player in a game sometimes or, like I said, to fight for that advantage.

And I think now in the advent of instant replay,

A lot of that has been taken out.

Now, you know, I know over the course of the last couple years when Brian Snitka was the manager of the Braves, he did his best to, you know, follow in Bobby's footsteps and would have a couple of ejections every year.

But I just think by and large with instant replay, I feel like that part of the game has kind of gone away.

Because I think by and large, because Bobby, unlike a lot of managers of his era, had a tremendous amount of respect and I think to a certain degree admiration for his pitchers.

I don't think too many managers in Bobby's day really held pitching or pitchers in high regard.

I think for a lot of guys, they were kind of a necessary evil, kind of a second-class citizen.

And Bobby didn't feel that way about his pitchers.

I think he understood how important those guys were to the team, and in particular for us in Atlanta, our starting rotation, how important we were going to be to the ultimate success of the team.

And