Say this for Gary Sheffield: He’s accomodating. He says what he thinks. He does so sometimes with a glare sometimes with a smile.

And he believes everything that comes out of his mouth.

Today, in his first visit to Yankee Stadium since his trade to Detroit, and since he dropped verbal bombs on Joe Torre a month ago on HBO’s Real Sports, Sheffield, typically, didn’t back off anything he had said.

Torre continued to ride the high road and did not discuss Sheffield’s comments. A reporter told Sheffield that Torre had said a day earlier he probably would not shake Sheffield’s hand before the game.

“Well, probably not,� Sheffield said, then, about whether he’d shake Torre’s hand.

“For what? I don’t need to clear up nothing. I meant what I said, said what I said, and I stand by what I said. Simple as that.�

The two did not cross paths on the field.

He was asked if he could have played another season for Torre.

“I don’t play for the manager,� Sheffield said. “I don’t play for him.�

During the HBO show he was asked about Derek Jeter, who is Torre’s captain and who has a tremendous relationship with the manager. Jeter’s dad is black, his mom white, which brought Sheffield to say he “ain’t all the way black.”

Sheffield said he meant nothing against Jeter when he said that, and noted that he has a son who is also half black, half white.

Sheffield was asked if he felt the statement about Torre was validated when African American players such as Kenny Lofton and Shawn Chacon agreed with him.

“It was validated when I said it,â€? he said. “The bottom line … let me explain it to you guys. When I have an issue with somebody within the Yankees organization, or the Yankees, what you guys try to do is include Jeter in that conversation to distort what I’m talking about because Jeter’s an icon here. Jeter’s not going to get the same treatment as Shawn Chacon, Gary Sheffield, nobody else, because he’s bigger than Cashman, he’s bigger than Joe Torre, he’s this organization. That’s why he don’t get he same treatment, simple as that.â€?

And Sheffield was angry about Darryl Strawberry coming to Torre’s defense in the press.

“For them to use Darryl Strawberry for 15 seconds or whatever to validate, he don’t have a clue what went on when I was here,� Sheffield said. “Just because me and him were close, you guys used him for that moment. And he took the bait.�

I wrote a column for The Journal News and LoHud.com tomorrow, about Sheffield, who was booed before each of his trips to the plate as the Tigers DH tonight.