On the Mets beat

Ruminations on another frosty evening at Shea:

With his demotion to Triple-A New Orleans imminent, Lastings Milledge insisted today that he can learn more up here with the Mets than playing every day with the Zephyrs.

"Right now, in my development, I feel like I need that," Milledge said. "Is it the best fit for me to be here? We don't know. There's decisions to be made. But that's how I feel personally."

Unfortunately for Milledge, the Mets feel differently, and he's almost certain to be a goner when they bring up Mike Pelfrey for Friday's game against the Nationals at Shea.

Also of note: Tom Glavine is scheduled for his first Shea start of 2007 tomorrow in the series finale with Philly. Glavine received one of the bigger ovations from the crowd in Monday's opener, but that doesn't mean he's due for another fan fest tomorrow.

"It's all going to depend on how I pitch," Glavine said. "I'm sure it will be nice and receptive and all those words, but in the end, it will be about how I pitch. And that's fine. That's the way that it is here. I think we all understand that and probably even appreciate it."

As for the cold, Glavine says he won't be overly concerned about the circulatory in his left arm that bothered him last season.

"I guess it's out of mind to the degree that I don't worry about it," said Glavine, who still takes baby aspirin to help the blood flow in his arm. "Honestly, I don't even know if it's necessarily tied to the cold weather. I always have issues with my hands in the cold and it's the kind of thing where you just try and manage and make adjustments. Knowing what I know now, and taking the medications that I take, it's a lot easier to deal with it than it used to be. "