Parent: MLB pitchman Chase Utley in town hawking Phillies-Mets across the pond

OK, so he didn't go barreling into his old home dugout with spikes held high Thursday, but Chase Utley still showed he has the personality mettle of a world bleepin' champion. “It's kind of invigorating,” Utley, somehow now 45, said of his return to Citizens Bank Park, a stadium in which some baseball romanticists say he helped build. Since Alumni Weekend isn't for another three months or so, you might wonder why Utley was doing here, and not-so coincidentally on a night that featured the Mets, long a chief Phillies rival, and even more so an organized collection of Utley haters not so long ago. On this rare trip to a place he once called home, Utley, Major League Baseball's Ambassador to Europe — apparently a real title — came along with two “stars” of the BBC's version of “Gladiator” — Remember “American Gladiator” years ago?