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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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by Greg Prince on 15 September 2023 12:28 am
Tell me if any of this sounds familiar to your experience regarding your favorite baseball team of late:
• Sometime in early Spring: YAY, BASEBALL!
• A little later this Spring throughout this summer: Does it have to be this baseball?
• Now, as summer blurs into fall: Sigh…there goes baseball, just when the baseball is getting kinda […]
by Greg Prince on 3 August 2023 12:41 pm
The Original Mets were stocked primarily by a legendarily threadbare expansion draft that left the Mets capable of winning one of every four games they’d play in their first year. With a full season’s experience under their collective belt, the Slightly Less Original Mets took the field for their second year and won eleven more […]
by Greg Prince on 6 May 2023 10:43 am
The primary bus scene in Bull Durham, the one in which wise, older Crash Davis informs young, wild Nuke LaLoosh that nobody gets woolly, rushed across the strike zone of the mind Friday morning, specifically the line, “You could be one of those guys.” One of the realest-life Nuke LaLooshes to have toed a rubber […]
by Greg Prince on 27 October 2022 3:16 pm
I’m assuming the five-day interregnum between the conclusion of the League Championship Series and the commencing of the World Series was built into the postseason by MLB this year to give us time to get used to the nearly unfathomable presence of the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Fall Classic.
But here we are, four days […]
by Greg Prince on 31 January 2021 5:36 pm
It’s a summer night in 2008. Utilityman Marlon Anderson has gone on the 15-day DL with a strained hamstring. To replace him, the Mets, in Houston, look to their geographically proximate Triple-A farm club in New Orleans and call up from the Zephyrs infielder/outfielder/hitter Daniel Murphy. His first plate appearance, versus Roy Oswalt, results in […]
by Greg Prince on 28 January 2021 4:53 pm
We need not mourn the departure of Long Island’s Own Steven Matz, traded to Toronto for younger pitchers Sean Reid-Foley, Yennsy Diaz and Josh Winckowski on Wednesday night. Nor need we celebrate his deletion from Met ranks. Sending Steven packing was just something that needed to be done.
Still, Matz, soon to turn 30, was no […]
by Greg Prince on 25 December 2020 5:04 pm
Previously on Flashback Friday…
A little piece of me is always watching the Mets in 1970.
Mostly I was enchanted with the possibility that the Mets would win the World Series in 1975.
I was in love with the 1980 Mets. They weren’t the first Mets team I was ever hung up on, but I think, given where […]
by Greg Prince on 18 October 2020 12:49 pm
They were 89 moments in the sun, 89 moments under the spotlight, 89 days and nights of our lives when little else mattered to us. I mean more than usual.
“The Mets go melodramatic in October,” Roger Angell once wrote. “It’s in their genes.” Here we inspect the DNA and report the findings. Here we do […]
by Jason Fry on 10 October 2020 12:08 am
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see.
In the summer of 2015, an undermanned and shoddily constructed Mets club stumbled along, refusing to fall entirely out of contention despite scoring the fewest runs in the National League, battling injuries, and having […]
by Greg Prince on 2 July 2020 3:22 pm
MLB’s “Summer Camp” has not only been named, it’s been sponsored, by a company called Camping World. Perhaps when the streamlined sixty-game schedule is announced, the reveal can be sponsored by Thom McAn, considering we’re all kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on baseball’s best-laid, half-assed plans.
True, they no longer have Thom […]
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