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ABOUT US

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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We've Got Foibles and Fables to Portray

First pitch minutes away. But there's always time for a good show tune*…

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Leave your cheese to sour

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Come and waste an hour or two

Doo-dle-ee-do

Journey

Journey to a spot ex-

citing, mystic and exotic

Journey

Through our anecdotic revue

We've got magic to do

Just for you

We've got miracle plays to play

We've got parts to perform

Hearts […]

Me and Him…Go Figure

All right brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But let's just get me through this and I can get back to killing you with beer.

Tom, we've had a strange relationship for five seasons. I made no secret that I never wanted you to be a Met and you always gave me […]

Run to Daylight

Yesterday I would not have believed

That tomorrow the sun would shine

Then one day you came into my life

I am alive again

—Chicago (the group, not the Cubs)

Five straight dreary night games gave way to a Saturday afternoon like few others in the history of the old multipurpose stadium hard by the Grand Central. Shea had, however, […]

We Rooted Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad

We rooted like hell. They played like crud.

We the fans may be Mets in every emotional way, but it was proven again Friday night that we the fans cannot hit, hit with power, run, throw, catch and pitch.

And…wait for it…neither can the Mets.

Either way, we're all on the outside looking in now. We are not […]

Congratulations Phillies

Well, it worked on the Red Sox when DiamondVision jumped the gun.

Repeat After Me

LET'S GO METS!

Back in the Bad Old Days

If it’s the final Friday of the month, then it’s the ninth installment of the special Top 10 Songs of All-Time edition of Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing.

In the late summer of 1974, the foundering Mets decided to give anybody and everybody a try. Their first-time callups that August and September included […]

C'mon — What Else Are We Gonna Do?

I can't tell you with any great conviction that there's any good reason to invest your faith in our team this weekend. Of course I can't. I was at the same game Thursday night that you were or watched. There was nothing about the Mets' performance to suggest they ever held a seven-game lead in […]

Knock Fear on Its Rear

We have nothing to Fear but the Mets and the Phillies themselves. Since both teams now have a magic number, that also means we have nothing to count down.

Have Faith anyway this weekend. As a very smart man recently said:

If I’m wrong, we all have six months to not root for them.

Let’s Go Mets.

[Illustration by Jim Haines…who […]

This Team's Got the Disappearing First Place Blues

“This is the train to…LONG BEACH. The next stop is…LONG BEACH.”

Ever since the Long Island Rail Road began employing automated voice systems, I'd never heard that kind of redundancy on an eastbound train. I'd never ridden to the final stop.

But there I was last night, on the 11:54 to Long Beach, my old hometown. Well, […]