TOM GLAVINE N.Y. pitcher lashes out on Questec

He criticized the umpire evaluation system after the Mets' loss to the Braves.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tom Glavine can handle human opponents. It's a machine that's got him down.
Echoing Curt Schilling, Glavine thinks the umpire evaluation equipment is ruining baseball.
"I know my name has been brought up in the Questec argument. I'm the poster child," he said Wednesday after Atlanta beat the New York Mets 6-3 and dropped him to 0-3 against his former team.
At Shea Stadium, where the Questec system is used, Glavine is 2-7. On the road, he's 4-2.
He says umpires have told Mets catchers that they will not call pitches on the corners at Shea because they don't want the machine to give them poor grades.
"Why not eliminate that altogether and have an electronic strike zone?" Glavine said. "That's almost what it's coming to."
Complaints
Glavine said he's heard throughout his career complaints that his strike zone "was 24 inches wide and everyone else's was 10."
Agreeing with Arizona's Schilling, Glavine says it's no longer possible to know in advance what's a ball and what's a strike. And because of that, Glavine says only power pitchers can be successful. Finesse guys who work the corners are out of luck.
"You can ask the hitters. They don't know what the strike zone is. Nobody knows," he said. "It's not just me they're doing this to. They've done it to a lot of good pitchers."
On May 24, Schilling punched out the machine in Arizona, which cost him a fine. Glavine attacked merely with words.
Change affected him
He estimated the computer cost him 8-10 pitches Wednesday that would have been called strikes in the past, about 10 percent of his total. The change caused him to fall behind in the count.
"If it's 2-0 vs. 1-1, that's a big deal," he said.
He thought he pitched well, and so did the Braves, but Glavine (6-9) allowed three of his first four batters to score as hits fell in as if it were intra-squad batting practice.
"Playing against them now for the first time you understand why people get so frustrated against them or hate playing against them," Glavine said.
"Glavine is the same pitcher," said Lopez, his former catcher. "I don't see anything different. He was throwing the same way as when he was with us."
Familiarity
Many Braves are quite familiar with Glavine, who spent 16 seasons with Atlanta before signing with the Mets in December. New York expected the two-time Cy Young Award winner to lead the Mets back into the playoffs.
Instead, the eight-time All-Star heads into the All-Star break with a losing record for just the third time in his career.
"Today he was as good as I've seen him," Chipper Jones said. "Good sink on his fastball, good sink on all his stuff."
"I feel bad for him personally," said Greg Maddux, Glavine's former teammate. "But as far as the team goes? We're doing what we're trying to do."