Whether or not Beltran plays? Sheff is hurting and Reed as hit the ball well in pittsbrugh (2 doubles on monday, 3 hits last night), but jerry seems to be waivering on the “I play the hot hand” front.

Also, I feel a little nauseous that its June and I am asking if Jeremy Reed, career lifetime hitter of .261 (.684 OPS), should get more playing time. We need a bat ASAP.

Its funny because the auto-link of Tony Gwynn is to his son, the current player on the Padres, and not the HOFer, who is actually the coach of Strasburg.

I was at Yankee Stadium last night (or as my mom advised me, “Don’t forget, the game is at the NEW Yankee Stadium.” thanks mom), taking my nephew to a game. Tickets courtesy of a family friend. Field level, section 126, row 15, aisle seats along third base line. Not Legends section but better setas than I have sat in for about 10 years.

My nephew, like me, is a Mets fan. Unfortunately, at 14, he hasn’t gotten beyond the David Wright is overrated, Omir Santos is clutch thing, but he is fairly well schooled (he made a snide comment to Wright’s babip to homer ratio).

When I was his age I was pretty anti-yankee, which developed as I got into teenage rivalry years (even younger, while still a Mets fan, I didn’t mind the Yakees,a nd was kind of fascinated by the whole Fritz Peterson/Mike Kekich wife and family swapping story). My nephew is more even-keeled than I was as a young teen.

Anyway, not a great game, although there were some brushback wars to liven it up.

On Yankee defense, Gardner made a nice play on a Chris Davis drive to deep center. He seems to have a good uzr in a limited sample in Centerfield. Moving melky to right to replace Abreu is an upgrade, although Melky was not a great cf, and Gardner is pretty good there. Certainly, texeira is good at first and they highlight that on the big screen, showing a lot of his plays before the game even started.

Both Arod (and Young on texas) seemed a step slow on grounders to their lefts, or they just gave up.

Oh, and someone about 100 feet from us took a bat that flew from Melky’s hands. Couldn’t see how bad but from the looks of surrounding faces, not great. Davis did the same to someone on the first base side.

Haven’t been to citifield yet, but I will make it a couple of times this year at least. Food wasn’t bad at yankee (Carl’s Junior steak sandwich-hey they even have apples and pears), but i hear citifield is better.

Oh, and I even had a Bushmills on the rocks.

Been to the Shake Shack on 23rd street in madison park many times. BBQ joint must be Blue Smoke, same guy owns both. Yankee Stadium bbq is brother jimmy’s, which is ok for an ACC hoops game frat boy fest, but the ‘cue doesn’t stand up.

…the Mets are missing an utley/victorino-type player and need this type of guy now more than ever… this why i believe Mark De Rosa should be the Mets top target on the trade market… he has utley-like qualities and can produce while playing all over the diamond…

Tyler Kepner of the New York Times relays the "Yankees Play Hard Index" that is posted in the Yankees Triple-A clubhouse.

…perhaps the Mets should make this mandatory reading and post it in their major league clubhouse…