Yes, I am on Twitter:

1. Much is being made about how Mark Reynolds has as many homers (4) at Citi Field after starting three times in a four-game series as David Wright has all year. I get the comparison. The two grew up near each other and played on traveling teams. They both are third basemen.

But Reynolds is an awesome power hitter. More disturbing is that Daniel Murphy now has as many homers at Citi Field as Wright.

So what do we make of Wright in 2009? Two questions keep coming to mind for me: “Is he hiding an injury and playing through it because he feels it is the right thing to do?” (He says, no, by the way). “Is he revealing that he is not built to be the main man on a team and, instead, is more comfortable/productive as a second banana?”

2.. Nelson Figueroa is like a backup quarterback in the NFL: He seems like a good idea, until you see him play.

3. Sorry for being redundant when it comes to my dismay about how steroid use is viewed/covered in baseball as opposed to the NFL. But I want to add two recent items: When the New York Times revealed that both David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez failed the survey testing in 2003, there was an immediate outcry to discredit the Red Sox championships of 2004 and 2007. But there has been a cartload of proof that the Chuck Noll Era Steelers were awash in steroids. Yet I never do see much of a movement to strip them of any championships or to strip the titles from any team Bill Romanowski ever played on.

Also, in the past two days I have heard some discussion of Calvin Pace’s four-game suspension for testing positive and this is the discussion (all of it): How are the Jets going to replace him for those four games. There is no moralizing or sermonizing about how Pace cheated the game or how he has to give last year’s sacks back or the Jets have to give any wins back. Imagine if after the 50-game suspension this year of Manny Ramirez if the only discussion was about if Juan Pierre could replace him.