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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.

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The Happiest Recap: 151-153

by on 27 September 2011 2:42 pm

Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 151st game in any Mets season, the “best” 152nd game in any Mets season, […]

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Mike Pelfrey's Going Away Party

by on 26 September 2011 3:32 am

“Hey, this is really nice.”
“Well, we decided it was a special occasion, so we should rent out one of the suites.”
“I’ve never been to one of these before.”
“We throw one every five days — just in case.”
“So this isn’t just an end of season thing?”
“Usually we just do it in Promenade and keep it simple, […]

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The Guys in Our Uniforms

by on 25 September 2011 10:34 am

I’m kind of sorry I ever heard the admonition to not trust what I see in September since I’d like to believe what I watched and listened to Saturday was a true indication of where the Mets (and the Phillies) are headed. Yet I understand that they were just two games getting played because contractually […]

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Can't Wait for the Newsreels!

by on 24 September 2011 10:49 am

I yearn to crowd into Times Square and watch the zipper deliver the updates. I hanker to gather around the upright Philco in the parlor and receive the word seconds after it arrives via Teletype. I want Walter Winchell to deal me the dope.

Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and coast […]

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The Happiest Recap: 148-150

by on 23 September 2011 1:09 pm

Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 148th game in any Mets season, the “best” 149th game in any Mets season, […]

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Seven-Run Swing to Nowhere

by on 22 September 2011 9:23 am

It’s not our pennant race, but we were about to make a potentially legendary impact on it. That would’ve been fun.

In the bottom of the second, already behind by two, Chris Schwinden couldn’t have appeared much more in danger. Infield hijinks, bloop warfare and the temptation of hitting Rafael Furcal that was just too good […]

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Slow Learners

by on 21 September 2011 1:24 pm

Sticking with the education theme Yahoo! was kind enough to come up with for us and 29 other contributing blogs, my attention was detained this morning when I saw the following headline on mets.com:

Mets’ loss to Cards a valued learning experience

Say, I thought, that looks familiar. Where and when have I seen that […]

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The Happiest Recap: 145-147

by on 20 September 2011 1:12 pm

Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 145th game in any Mets season, the “best” 146th game in any Mets season, […]

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A Good Game Lost

by on 18 September 2011 8:36 am

Winning would have been preferable. Winning a bad game beats losing a good game. But since relatively little is at stake on this side of the line score, I can’t say watching a good game lost doesn’t engender its small rewards.

I liked watching Ruben Tejada overcome Tim Hudson twice and battle him gamely a third […]

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Sense? Baseball? Ha!

by on 17 September 2011 10:14 am

“Hi, I’m sort of new to baseball, and I’m hoping you can help me understand it.”
“I’ll try.”
“Great. My first question is about the Mets.”
“Which is?”
“That’s the team that totally sucked on Thursday, right?”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“I mean they couldn’t do anything right.”
“You got it.”
“They played a pretty bad team, didn’t they?”
“Yes, they played the Washington Nationals.”
“And […]

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