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The Rumble

Stan Fischler (Scott Levy/MSG Photos)

Swing & a Tiff

Simons branching out at SNY

Simons says: Watch “Mets Weekly”! The popular SNY show debuts at 6 o’clock tonight with effervescent second-year host Tiffany Simons providing an up-close and personal look at new center fielder Andres Torres, currently on the disabled list. Simons reveals that the second episode of “Mets Weekly” will feature world-record holder Chuck Booth.

“He owns the record of going to all 30 ballparks in 24 days,” Simons said. “He’s attempting to break that record by going to all 30 in 20 days.”

Citi Field was Booth’s first stop on Opening Day, and it will be where Simons will be April 20 when she fills in for roving field reporter Kevin Burkhardt in what could be the first of several opportunities.

“They have a very casual way of coming across on air — very warm, very friendly,” Senior VP and Executive Producer Curt Gowdy Jr. said. “What you see on the air with Kevin is what you get off the air, and it’s the same with Tiffany.”

Simons is excited about the opportunity and plans on watching how Burkhardt, a jack of all trades, master of all, does it more closely.

“He does everything with such an ease, you almost think, ‘Oh, that job is simple,’ ” Simons said.

Simons pointed to an interview with manager Terry Collins as her favorite.

“You can just tell he loves his guys and they love him,” Simons said.

Rangers-Devils clash would thrill Fischler

Not too many people would compare Rangers coach John Tortorella with former Brooklyn Dodgers Leo Durocher, or compare the team he coaches with the 1947-’48 Maple Leafs. Then again not too many people have been immersed in hockey and New York sports the way Stan Fischler has since 1939. Fischler turned 80 on March 31, and explained to The Post’s Justin Terranova

how his love of the game allows him to remain part of MSG’s Rangers, Devils and Islanders broadcasts.

“I haven’t grown up. I am still in my Bar Mitzvah years,” Fischler said. “It’s very hard to take my thinking out of my body, but every time I go to a rink I feel I’m having fun. Hockey is a war game on ice, you never know what’s going to happen. There’s always the element of surprise. … It’s always fun, it’s like candy.”

One surprise for Fischler came in 1994 at the peak of the Devils-Rangers rivalry when Blueshirts coach Mike Keenan pulled him aside two hours before Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

“He wanted me to come in and sit down with him privately,” the Brooklyn-born Fischler aid. “He just wanted to ventilate. … The referees aren’t doing us any favors and blah, blah, blah. And it was just a very stunning experience for me.”

Now Fischler is hoping for some more memories with Rangers and Devils set to begin another NHL playoffs.

“The hope is that they meet somewhere down the road because if they do it would sort of be like Yankees-Dodgers in ’41, ’55, ’56. … This is a priceless rivalry now,” he said.

Top runners in half-marathon

Three-time U.S. Olympian Jen Rhines and two-time U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier Michelle Frey will headline a field of more than 10,000 runners at the ninth annual More Magazine/Fitness Magazine Women’s Half-Marathon, the largest women-only half-marathon in the country next Sunday. Elisabeth Hasselbeck of “The View” will host and run as well.