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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 2 July 2020 3:22 pm
MLB’s “Summer Camp” has not only been named, it’s been sponsored, by a company called Camping World. Perhaps when the streamlined sixty-game schedule is announced, the reveal can be sponsored by Thom McAn, considering we’re all kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on baseball’s best-laid, half-assed plans.
True, they no longer have Thom […]
by Greg Prince on 30 June 2020 8:42 pm
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see.
I’m getting the feeling I came in at the end. The best is over.
—Tony Soprano
From June 7 through June 11 in 1977, the Mets’ starting rotation turned like this:
Tom Seaver
Jerry Koosman
Jon […]
by Greg Prince on 26 June 2020 5:23 pm
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see.
Didn’t we almost have it all
When love was all we had worth giving?
—Whitney Houston
As it approaches the halfway mark, the year 2020 is not making a case for itself as one […]
by Greg Prince on 24 June 2020 10:40 am
Are you ready for some baseball?
Well, are ya?
Let’s cross our fingers and hope baseball is ready for itself. Baseball can declare all the intentions it wants. It still has to check in with the coronavirus pretty regularly to make sure it gets to proceed as it intends.
Until we find out otherwise, it is on. Baseball, […]
by Greg Prince on 16 June 2020 5:15 pm
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see.
Jimmy quit
Jody got married
I should’ve known
We’d never get far
—Bryan Adams
Together they started fewer than 100 games as Mets, yet there may be no trio of Met starting pitchers that occupies as […]
by Greg Prince on 12 June 2020 5:47 pm
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see.
But there ain’t no Coupe de Ville
Hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box
—Meat Loaf
If it feels like it’s been a while since the last official Mets game, it has […]
by Greg Prince on 11 June 2020 4:44 am
We are a few days from the 40th anniversary of the most Magical home run in Mets history — the Steve Henderson game-winner of June 14, 1980 — and should you care to treat yourself to a commemorative viewing, you can transport yourself to the evening in question and take in extended highlights of the […]
by Greg Prince on 2 June 2020 3:57 am
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see.
They swept away all the streamers
After the Labor day parade
Nothing left for a dreamer now
Only one final serenade
—Billy Joel
Eight years and a day ago, Johan Santana faced 32 St. Louis Cardinals. […]
by Greg Prince on 1 June 2020 4:18 pm
Imagine a world in which you walk down a fairly busy street; you feel perfectly fine; you carry no existential worries as you inhale and exhale without a second thought; you inherently respect everybody you pass, regardless of what they look like or where they come from; they inherently respect you; you take it as […]
by Greg Prince on 29 May 2020 1:57 am
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see.
You’ll never know the pleasure of writing a graceful sentence or having an original thought.
—Aaron Altman attempting to verbally torment a trio of toughs after his high school graduation, Broadcast News
I […]
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