The Mets' new home next season may have a piece of their current home -- the Apple. No matter what, a home run apple will be installed just beyond the outfield wall -- as it is at Shea Stadium -- but this one will be left of center. And according to Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, it hasn't yet been determined whether the old one can handle the move or whether a replacement will be necessary.

Ah, apple turnover.

Wilpon said the Mets haven't guarded against some unscrupulous soul placing a piece of opponents' paraphernalia at Citi Field as someone supposedly did with the new Yankee Stadium. The Yankees, knowing precisely where to dig, removed a David Ortiz T-shirt from under a block of cement at their construction site in April.

"And as soon as they did, what happened?" Wilpon said. "Ortiz started hitting, right? He'd been in a slump, and then boom, as soon as they dug it up.

"We'll just let it stay there."