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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.

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That's About The Size Of It

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Come May when we’re being told that the Subway Series has run its course, I will point to this as Exhibit S for the defense: The cover of the only locally available 2007 Street & Smith’s Baseball Yearbook. Came upon it in Pathmark last night and nearly spiked the entire detergent section, touchdown-like, out of exhiliration.

Unlike with our well-meaning but wishy-washy friends at Athlon Sports, there’s no Choose One option for the New York market. If you want Street & Smith’s here, you have to buy the magazine with the big Met and the little Yankee, just as I have had to buy the opposite for the past decade.

In the words of Johnny Drama, VICTORY!

Small one anyway. You know, like tiny Mariano down there on your bottom left.

3 comments to That’s About The Size Of It

  • Anonymous

    Looks like Beltran's backswing is gonna pop Fruit Bat's little head clean off.
    That's a shame.

  • Anonymous

    The first Met to make the cover of Street and Smith's regional edition was Ron Swoboda in 1966.
    Unfortunately, they mispelled his last name as “Swaboda”

  • Anonymous

    Kind of a weird photo to pick though… he's usually got such a beautiful swing, this one looks all off-balance.