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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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Baseball Is Pain

by on 5 April 2023 9:33 pm

I mean, sometimes it’s joy. A lot of times it’s joy, in fact.

But sometimes it isn’t.

Take, for instance, Wednesday afternoon in Milwaukee, which certainly did not count as joy.

I guess you could make a case that it was better than losing 10-zip on Monday, and superior to losing 9-0 on Tuesday. On Wednesday the Mets […]

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OK, Professor

by on 5 April 2023 9:51 am

Having recently conferred “visiting scholar” status upon one Maxwell Martin Scherzer, a righthander who earned his doctorate in pitching long ago, I’ll leave it to the old professor himself to figure out what the hell is wrong with him. If it’s not physical (he says he’s fine), not mental (he won’t use the pitch clock […]

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