Two years ago I roped my cousin Gabe into an idea I had for a book. He's a Mets fan and of course, I root for the Yanks. We started to exchange e-mails during the 2001 season and I thought it would be great to compile a book of e-mails exchanged between a Met and Yankee fan over the course of a season. Well, I don't know how good the book would have been, but by the middle of the summer in 2002, we realized it wasn't going to fly.

The best thing that came out of the experience--other than being treated to Gabe's almost daily e-mails--was that I got in the habit of writing about baseball every day. And that set me up to eventually start the blog you are now reading (incidentally, Gabe is editing the Curt Flood book I'm writing for Young Adults).

I really like the idea of a correspondence between a Met and Yankee fan, and now, there is a blog devoted to such an endeavor, called "Yankees, Mets and the Rest." Head on over and see what Scott and Vinny have in store for us.