"When Tom Glavine exited Wednesday afternoon's meeting with Braves management, he was convinced that he was being released based on a financially based decision that was necessitated after he remained healthy throughout each of his scheduled Minor League rehab starts. While Glavine believes the move was economically motivated and the Braves contend it was performance-based, both parties conclude that the ending proved to be much uglier than they had ever anticipated. Bothered by the way Wednesday's meeting was handled, Braves president John Schuerholz said that he has had trouble sleeping the past two nights. Thus before Friday night's game, Schuerholz publicly expressed an apology that he'll express to Glavine once the two find time to communicate. "I as the president of our club could have taken more time to not only explain the circumstances around our decision," Schuerholz said. "Although we made that decision in unanimous fashion, I wanted to express our high regard for him and our view of him being with this organization for many years to come in some sort of connective fashion. "I'm not regretting the decision making. I'm regretting the manner in which it was portrayed and explained to Tommy. I feel like I could have done a better job with that." Based on what he heard during Wednesday's meeting, Glavine left Turner Field with a sense that the Braves had allowed him to continue making Minor League rehab starts with the hope that he would suffer an injury before reaching a point where they would be conflicted by the option of adding him or Tommy Hanson to their starting rotation. "I just think there was a belief that I wouldn't be healthy enough to make it back," Glavine said. Glavine expressed this sentiment and many others while making his first public statements on Friday. In the process, he said that he felt he'd been betrayed by an organization with which he had spent 17 of his 22 Major League seasons."