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Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans.
Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here.
Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here.
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Why, It's Our New Batting Helmet (Dum-Dum)
by Greg Prince on 8 April 2006 5:58 am 
After staring at the Mets’ wacky space age batting helmet for weeks, I finally figured out what was missing. It’s the antennae, stupid…or dum-dum, for you Flintstones devotees. I do believe the new-for-’06 protective headgear was originated by Fred Flintstone’s out-of-this world adviser, The Great Gazoo. He was the tiny extragalactic visitor almost nobody could see.
Sort of like Anderson Hernandez’s batting average.
Thanks, as ever, to Jim Haines and Zed Duck Studios for giving tangible form to this and several of my long-festering realizations.
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Gotta fix the orange NY, though Greg. It looks suspiciously like another variation on those 2 “interlocking” letters…
Gazoo came from the future, so the “N” slipped slightly in transport.
Makes perfect sense from a physics standpoint.
They already think we “stole” “Enter Sandman;” don't need to be swiping logos, too…
“They”? Never heard of 'em.
In the future there's only one NY and it's orange. Relax.
OK…
[…] of you.” Anyway, we were on top of the coming Flinstones trend in protective headgear on April 8, 2006 when we posted this Jim Haines illustration of what was then the new Met batting helmet with vents […]