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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.
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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by Greg Prince on 12 September 2006 9:36 am
“Mr. Randolph? Hi, I'm Rachel. NLE Properties.”
“Hello Rachel. Sorry I'm running late. I had to call a last-minute departmental meeting.”
“Is everything all right?”
“Oh, just had to shake up some complacent employees. Nothing to worry about.”
“Are you sure? Because I know we're so close to signing the papers…”
“Really, just a bump in the road. And to […]
by Greg Prince on 12 September 2006 2:20 am
Breaks are good. It’s not a bad idea taking a break every now and then. I know how hard you all work…my point is this: Break’s over.
—President Bartlet
OK, so maybe Dave Williams isn't the answer. That was Uggla all around, but the starting pitching is where it begins and, against the Marlins, ended. Quickly.
Maine makes […]
by Greg Prince on 11 September 2006 4:19 am
My father goes somewhere, he generally carries nothing. Whatever he needs is presumably in his pockets. I never noticed it until I realized how he’s the opposite of me. I take after my mother. I carry a bag.
Not a purse, not a man purse. A shoulder bag I guess you’d call it. An overnight bag […]
by Greg Prince on 11 September 2006 1:04 am
“If we’d had 5 decent starters, his ass would have been out of here 4 years ago!”
Thus spake a disgusted Joe in the midst of Sunday afternoon’s Trachselization. When Joe has the clearest vision among 45,000 disgruntled Mets fans (and probably 3,000 jerks who haven’t heard the Dodgers don’t play one borough over anymore), surely […]
by Greg Prince on 10 September 2006 6:56 am
It’s been a great week for the connective tissue of the Metsosphere. Faith and Fear gets to hang with Mike’s Mets on Tuesday and then dines al fresco with Mets Guy in Michigan in Manhattan on Saturday.
The world hasn’t witnessed this great a concentration of creative Mets energy since Metstradamus blogged alone.
Dave Murray and I […]
by Greg Prince on 10 September 2006 5:53 am
You can to go a game in which the Mets are facing Greg Maddux and feel clean. You can watch a surefire Hall of Famer at the tail end of an honorable career and come away feeling good. You can say, hey, I saw a 300-game winner pitch, a guy who knows how to work […]
by Greg Prince on 9 September 2006 6:18 am
If there really is a derby underway between Steve Trachsel and John Maine for the fourth starter's role in the playoffs, let's just say Dave Williams is well out in front.
Trachsel was his really old self four nights ago, inept and unlucky. Maine was his moderately old self versus L.A., the kid called up earlier […]
by Greg Prince on 8 September 2006 8:32 am
Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets.
Twenty years. Forty-three Fridays. This is one of them.
I’m lazing about the upper deck. Left field. Far left, far up. Many have called it a day, so there is room to stretch out. The […]
by Greg Prince on 8 September 2006 3:43 am
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Or maybe there’s no obligations now
Maybe I’ve a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland
—Queens’ own Paul Simon
Jose Reyes bounces on his belly across home plate with no throw on him, calls himself safe and he’s fine.
Jose Reyes allows a pop fly to bounce off […]
by Greg Prince on 7 September 2006 3:41 am
Every few hours, I like to check and see if our magic number has decreased…
…it has.
All day it’s been like this. We keep reducing our number every 3 hours and we have 8 left, therefore, at this rate, we’ll clinch by this time tomorrow.
Not really.
An alert to our affiliates along the Faith and Fear network: […]
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