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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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Casey Stengel Also Had Many Admirers in St. Pete

Best Metlike score one could hope for on December 20:

Your University of South Florida Bulls 41

Other Team from Wherever 14

That’s the final in the surprisingly prestigious magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl, played Saturday at a briefly reconfigured Tropicana Field — a multipurpose stadium whose purposes are baseball and football, you say? — up the road apiece […]

Hey, That's Our Guy

If you've explored the upper reaches of your digital cable or satellite packages, you may have come across the test airing of the MLB Network. It's debuting in earnest New Year's Day, which is excellent counterprogramming against all that inane college football. We know the only bowl game on which to be truly Bullish is […]

Frame Game

Remember your first game at Shea? Stony Brook University assistant director of undergraduate admissions Chris D’Orso sure does. As Jason explained, Chris, one of our friends from the Crane Pool Forum, preserved a one-of-a-kind framed record of the June 12, 1982 Mets’ 6-2 win over the Cardinals in peerless style. (We’ll let it slide that at the age of […]

The Big Stage

Thirty years ago this very night, I made my debut on the big stage, or the biggest stage upon which I was ever going to act. I was in my first high school play, “Heaven Can Wait,” playing the key role of Inspector Williams…a key role if you consider eighth lead crucial to telling a […]

Deep Blue Something

There once was a place called the Loge Boxes. I’d know them anywhere. Couldn’t tell you who did the paint job upon paint job, but I can tell you our talented friend David G. Whitham captured this little slice of Shea Stadium life last season back when you could still do that sort of thing. […]

Cue 'Layla (Piano Exit)'

Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery…still, months after the robbery, they were finding bodies all over.
—Henry Hill on the aftermath of the Lufthansa thing

The Mets bullpen crew whacked the Mets’ playoff hopes. The Mets are getting even.

Heilman.

Smith.

Now this.

When they found Schoeneweis on the Diamondbacks, he was frozen so stiff it took […]

Business Taken Care Of

Like any rightly prioritized Mets fan, I spent Wednesday evening watching the UltiMet Classic airing on SNY, the three-hit shutout spun by Johan Santana on Saturday, September 27. It was the final Mets win in the history of old Shea Stadium and, maybe, the end of an era in another way.

When Johan induced a deep […]

The Other Side of Endy

The trade needed to be made for the bullpen’s sake, but it’s sad to see the back of Endy Chavez as he leaves town. We’re not used to this view of the little left fielder who could and did. We’re used to something more like this.

In Rod We Trust

Mets fans are a picky lot. Given a clear shot to sign the guy with the most saves ever in one season, that season being the most recent season, I haven’t seen a lot of “Oh Boy!” enthusiasm for that guy’s arrival. But he is arriving, crazy arm angles, dropping velocity and all. Reliable sources […]

A Taste of Summer

This is a peek into Shea Stadium circa summer 2008 as it is a peek into the talent of David G. Whitham, an incredibly gifted photographer of baseball and everything else (which is how we like to rank life around here). I met David through my friend Sharon late in the season and he’s been […]