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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 22 September 2023 11:16 am
Despite indications it might never happen in the course of a year that had only just begun, in their seventh game of 2023, the Mets (3-4) fell below .500 for the first time. So much for white lace and promises.
In their 61st game of 2023, the Mets (30-31) fell below .500 for what turned out […]
by Jason Fry on 18 September 2023 11:44 pm
Marlins Nation! We need to talk! Because what just happened?
We just took it to the Atlanta Braves — the mighty Braves! — by sweeping a three-game series and outscoring Acuna and Strider and Co. by a cool 23 runs. There are less than two weeks to go in the season, and the playoffs are right […]
by Greg Prince on 15 September 2023 12:28 am
Tell me if any of this sounds familiar to your experience regarding your favorite baseball team of late:
• Sometime in early Spring: YAY, BASEBALL!
• A little later this Spring throughout this summer: Does it have to be this baseball?
• Now, as summer blurs into fall: Sigh…there goes baseball, just when the baseball is getting kinda […]
by Jason Fry on 13 September 2023 11:57 pm
Who are these Mets, anyway?
Joey Lucchesi was terrific, Mark Vientos homered, Pete Alonso drove in three on a homerless night and — in the most astonishing development of all — Trevor Gott and Drew Smith were allowed to pitch and didn’t fall apart like cheap watches. There was a nifty flying slide home by Jeff […]
by Greg Prince on 12 September 2023 10:23 am
I watched the victorious Jets quarterback before the football press late Monday night and extol the virtues of never getting too high or too low, which I’m pretty sure I’ve heard an athlete or two or two-million mention before, but since the victorious Jets quarterback Monday night was Zach Wilson rather than Aaron Rodgers, perhaps […]
by Jason Fry on 19 August 2023 8:57 am
From the beginning, I’ve loved watching Jeff McNeil play baseball — somehow never more so than when things don’t go his way.
McNeil responds to any misfortune in an AB — an umpire’s poor judgment, his own excessive haste, a perfectly executed enemy pitch, a great play by a defender, a quirk of fate — with […]
by Jason Fry on 18 August 2023 10:37 am
A grab bag of Mets drawing Adam Wainwright during his farewell tour, with John Smoltz and Fox painting the word picture? Hasn’t 2023 been mean enough already?
That’s what we got Thursday night, with the only reasonable source of hope that baseball’s innate cussedness and delight in confounding storylines would come to the fore.
Which, in fact, […]
by Greg Prince on 16 August 2023 12:25 pm
“David Peterson.”
“I don’t know.”
“It’s simple, I mention a name or something else, and you tell me the first thing you think of.”
“I understand how word association works. My answer to ‘David Peterson’ is ‘I don’t know.’ I’ve been watching him pitch semi-regularly for four seasons — with Jacob deGrom gone, he’s the active pitcher who’s […]
by Jason Fry on 25 July 2023 11:52 pm
What are the stakes in a Subway Series where both sets of partisans would just as soon not?
The Mets and Yankees have not too dissimilar records (the Mets are bad in a meh way, the Yankees are just meh), are both mired near the bottom of their divisions, and have both stumbled through the summer […]
by Greg Prince on 23 July 2023 11:30 am
These first-place New York Mets keep building on what they’ve accomplished. They’ve been doing it from Day One of this season. They’re still doing it. They have to keep doing it, not only because the second-place Atlanta Braves, currently three games behind us, are as formidable an opponent as the 1984 Cubs or 2022 Yankees, […]
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