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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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Leaning Too Far Off First

Seven players have stolen exactly 17 bases in the course of their New York Mets tenure. Only one within that highly specific cohort has been exceedingly efficient as a basestealer. In fact, that player can claim the third-highest stolen base percentage of any Met who has stolen at least 17 bases as a Met. Yet […]

Celebrating With Billy

Let’s head into the backyard of our childhood and dream. Let’s take a ball and go into our windup. Let’s pretend that we are registering the out that wins our team something of substance. We are the champions…of the world! We win the pennant! The division! We’ll accept a postseason berth or a playoff series, […]

Oh, Those Indecisive Astros!

If you’re harboring a dormant grudge against the Astros for whatever reason — and there are plenty of reasons…

• The Colt .45s getting out to a much better start in life than the Original Mets

• The infliction of carpeted indoor baseball upon the Grand Old Game

• 1969’s inexplicable yearlong flogging (the garden-variety Astros took ten […]