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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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A Bear Among Us

The long, cold winter brightened and warmed with the word Wednesday night that a Polar Bear will continue to prowl among us for the foreseeable future, which is to say one, maybe two years. Foreseeable may be a stretch. You live in the world today. You’ve ascertained that nobody can see very far into the […]

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 […]

62 Since the End of ’62

Author’s baby picture, before author discovered shirts and pants.

So I’m born on the last day of 1962, the same year the Mets came into this world, and now it’s 62 years later, and I’ve turned 62. This feels a bit like a Mets fan’s Logan’s Run endgame.

Yet I will go out on a […]

October Surprise

I have two favorite stealth statistics from the 2024 season.

1) When the Mets bottomed out at 22-33 on May 29, everybody in the National League, save for the Rockies and Marlins, had a better record than them: the three division leaders, the three Wild Card holders of the moment, and six teams with what appeared […]

Rickey Henderson Singular

“There are certain figures in American history who have passed into the realm of cultural mythology, as if reality could no longer contain their stories: Johnny Appleseed. Wild Bill Hickok. Davy Crockett. Rickey Henderson.”
—Tom Verducci, 2003

Maybe somebody else in baseball or sports or life referred to himself in the third person before Rickey Henderson made […]

Juan’s World

For those keeping adjustable score of very recent, relatively quiet Met offseason acquisitions at home, you can pencil in the following:

Righthanded pitcher Yuhi Sako.

A southpaw counterpart named Brandon Waddell.

Jared Young, who plays first.

Catcher Chris Williams.

Righty Griffin Canning, who maddeningly contained Met bats one day last summer, so I can say, “Him I’ve heard of.”

If you […]

Highest Five

It’s the 242 home runs, it’s the 1,777 base hits, it’s the seven All-Star appearances, it’s the matching pairs of Gold Gloves and Silver Sluggers, it’s the 30-30, it’s the Captaincy, it’s the four RBIs in his first postseason series, it’s the four RBIs in his final postseason series nine years later, it’s the electric […]

Juan Soto is a New York Met

I decided to keep a new list for myself this winter, that of offseason additions. Every time the Mets make a move, no matter how minor, I open a Word file and type in the player’s name and his position; I also add his birth info to the conditional section of my all-time roster so […]