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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 18 November 2020 5:44 pm
I had come around on Robinson Cano in 2020, a man we learned Wednesday won’t be a Met in 2021. I had come to not automatically grimace at the sight or thought of him in a Mets uniform. I even got over my distaste for No. 24 being taken out of informal retirement on his […]
by Jason Fry on 23 September 2020 12:09 pm
So Seth Lugo faced the Phillies last week and let’s just say it didn’t go well.
Lugo got strafed. He started out the game fanning Andrew McCutchen, but then gave up back-to-back-to-back homers, also yielding a triple and a run-scoring single in the inning while fanning two more. Can you strike out the side and have […]
by Greg Prince on 17 September 2020 11:23 am
Jacob deGrom gets hit like Jacob deGrom never gets hit. Then Jacob deGrom leaves with an injury like Jacob deGrom does in our worst nightmares. Then the Mets, down by three in the third, turn to Michael Wacha, a lapsed starter the Mets resist turning to as a matter of course. Then the Mets run […]
by Jason Fry on 5 September 2020 12:19 pm
It’s a point that arrives in every season. The game where…
…your head and heart aren’t really in it.
…you have a feeling that comeback you’re dreaming of is going to remain just a dream.
…the loss, when it comes, feels both foreordained and like a herald of more to come.
Turns out that point arrives in shortened little […]
by Jason Fry on 31 August 2020 9:07 pm
You know things have really taken a turn for the worse when even Jacob deGrom can’t save the Mets.
The Mets and Marlins reported for makeup duty a little after 1 pm Monday, with Miami not particularly excited at having to fly up and back to New York in a single day, and presumably even less […]
by Jason Fry on 19 August 2020 10:30 am
“Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.”
So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all.
The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […]
by Jason Fry on 18 August 2020 2:09 am
A laugher is always welcome as a team trudges through the long march of a baseball season — and, as it turns out, as it sprints through an unexpectedly curtailed one. And a laugher is particularly welcome when that team has recently made you wonder if it will ever play sound baseball again.
The Mets, after […]
by Greg Prince on 30 July 2020 2:19 pm
“Everywhere I went,” Marvin Gaye and, later, James Taylor sang, “it seems I’d been there before.” In that spirit of history either repeating or rhyming, I’d have to say that on Wednesday night, I kind of got what they were getting at.
On October 25, 1986, though the result didn’t go final until the earliest hour […]
by Greg Prince on 28 January 2020 3:17 am
Outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining. We’ve got a FanFest; who right here’s complaining? Not anybody who thinks it’s sexy that the Mets opened Citi Field on the last Saturday in January for as much baseball as they could possibly produce without benefit of a baseball game.
It was the first hopefully annual FanFest in […]
by Jason Fry on 9 January 2020 3:15 pm
Another year in the books! Another decade in the books! And another class of matriculating Mets to welcome to The Holy Books!
Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re in order of arrival in […]
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