Beautiful day here in New York, so the Mets and Reds are about to have an Ernie Banks day and play two at Shea. In the meantime, colleague Kevin Kernan provides David Wright the chance to make a spirited defense of embattled manager Willie Randolph. In the notebook, we update more slow-but-sure progress in Pedro Martinez’s rehabilitation, as well as provide more details on the activation of Ramon Castro, Angel Pagan’s right shoulder and Matt Wise’s imminent return from what seemed like the the slowest-healing arm bruise in recorded history.