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Greg Prince and Jason Fry
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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I Can't Go Back to Sucking

The split-squad Mets fell to pieces today. 9-0 loss in Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore. 13-1 drubbing by Washington at St. Lucie. Everywhere you looked, the Mets were out in farce.

Sele got rocked.

Park got rocked.

Sosa got rocked.

After Lima, can we stop with the four-letter pitchers? (It’s been ten springs since Rick Reed made himself gloriously apparent.)

Maybe […]

March Metness: More Aase Round Action

The second day of March Metness proceeded with its usual mix of the expected and the unexpected. Let’s just say some brackets are already looking better than others after completion of the first phase of the Don Aase Round.
Here’s who played Friday and who will still be playing Sunday for the right to go on […]

The Ancient Order of HI BERNIE!ans Will Now Come to Order

The first March 17 that we had Bernie The Cat, we were watching the news when a reporter made reference to the Ancient Order of Hibernians. On cue, we looked over toward our kitten, counted to three and greeted him with a big, hearty HI BERNIE!

Needless to say this startled him. But an annual tradition was […]