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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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Rock and Roll

It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled,

It’s been a long time since I did the stroll.

Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back,

Baby where I come from.

It’s been a long time, been a long time,

Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.

I didn’t […]

Rock and Roll

It's been a long time since I rock and rolled,
It's been a long time since I did the stroll.
Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back,
Baby where I come from.
It's been a long time, been a long time,
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
I didn't […]

The Word of the Weekend

sinister (sin’i-ster) adj. 1. Suggesting or threatening evil; a sinister smile. 2. Presaging trouble; ominous; sinister storm clouds. 3. Attended by or causing disaster or inauspicious circumstances. 4. On the left side; left. [Middle English sinistre, unfavorable, from Old French, from Latin sinister, on the left, unlucky.]

On the night of August 24 I became the […]

The Word of the Weekend

sinister (sin'i-ster) adj. 1. Suggesting or threatening evil; a sinister smile. 2. Presaging trouble; ominous; sinister storm clouds. 3. Attended by or causing disaster or inauspicious circumstances. 4. On the left side; left. [Middle English sinistre, unfavorable, from Old French, from Latin sinister, on the left, unlucky.]
On the night of August 24 I became the […]

The Curse of Pup-Peroni

Hindsight being 20-20, I should have known we weren’t clinching about 11:10 this morning.

That’s when Emily and Joshua and I walked into Madison Square Park, home of Shake Shack — and site of some American Kennel Club carnival that looked like it had been put together late last night by a couple of AKC […]

The Curse of Pup-Peroni

Hindsight being 20-20, I should have known we weren't clinching about 11:10 this morning.
That's when Emily and Joshua and I walked into Madison Square Park, home of Shake Shack — and site of some American Kennel Club carnival that looked like it had been put together late last night by a couple of AKC […]

Gone to the Dogs

Hey, no worries.

Truth be told, I wasn’t happy about the idea of a back-in anyway, and I was less happy about the price of a back-in being another W on the ledger of the Antichrist himself. (That didn’t happen, though the Phillies did somehow survive second and third with none out.) I know, I know, […]

Gone to the Dogs

Hey, no worries.
Truth be told, I wasn't happy about the idea of a back-in anyway, and I was less happy about the price of a back-in being another W on the ledger of the Antichrist himself. (That didn't happen, though the Phillies did somehow survive second and third with none out.) I know, I know, […]

It's All in the Details

“Let's go Braves!”

Whoa. No, that feels weird. Oh man, are the TBS guys showing something about their trillion consecutive division titles? If I weren't running on the treadmill with headphones on I could hear them…. Oh, who needs to hear them? I'm sure it's something about how Bobby Cox's touch cures measles, scabies and cataracts, […]

Survival and Extinction

You'd think an epochal game like that one would have felt more like a celebration. Instead, after six hours, 60-odd calls missed by Brian Onora and approximately 60,000 gallons of water falling from the Miami sky, it felt like survival.

But the end result is the same.

The Atlanta Braves are dead, their NL East reign of […]