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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 21 July 2023 1:26 pm
Last week, Major League Baseball released its schedule for next year and I shrugged. It was the epitome of too soon. But last year, when this year’s came out, I figuratively unfolded it and zeroed in on one particular box in quest of pertinent information:
Would the Mets be home on July 11, 2023?
They would not. […]
by Jason Fry on 19 July 2023 11:34 pm
Finally!
The Mets got the Justin Verlander they paid $43 million for — the fireballer who made opponents look silly as a Houston Astro, the no-doubt-about-it Hall of Famer, the top-of-the-rotation ace. And what a difference it made.
I was there, in surprisingly good Excelsior seats behind home plate (a crummy year has some silver linings), close […]
by Greg Prince on 19 July 2023 2:32 pm
When your opponent puts double digits in the run column and you win, anyway…
When you record a final score in your favor that you haven’t posted since the final months of the previous century…
When the prohibitive favorite to lead your team in his signature category for a record-tying fifth consecutive season might be compelled to […]
by Jason Fry on 1 August 2019 1:42 am
So in the end, after all the Sturming and Dranging, the Mets did nothing else. Noah Syndergaard stayed (and celebrated with a fairly hilarious bit of guerrilla Twitter video). Zack Wheeler stayed. Edwin Diaz stayed. Even Todd Frazier stayed. Prospects of whatever pedigree did not arrive. Cash considerations were not considered. Former college roommates of […]
by Greg Prince on 31 July 2019 10:51 am
You could look at how Noah Syndergaard pitched Tuesday night’s game against the White Sox — brilliantly — and infer that this was Noah’s way of telling the Mets how much being one of them means to him.
You could look at how the Mets played in support of Noah as he pitched brilliantly — maddeningly […]
by Jason Fry on 17 August 2018 11:54 am
Joy of excess? Oh baby, we hadn’t seen anything yet.
Game 1 of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Phils was a rain of records, superlatives and astonished exclamations. Twenty-four runs, a new club record. Twenty-five hits, a new club record for a nine-inning game. A 20-run margin of victory, also a new club record.
Weirdly, the crazy 24-4 outburst […]
by Greg Prince on 2 June 2016 10:03 am
The Chicago White Sox were the sore thumb of my Logging for twenty seasons, ever since it was decided National League teams should play American League teams for something less than all the marbles. Whoever the junior circuit sent to Shea Stadium, I dutifully saw at least once, entering the encounter in the steno book […]
by Greg Prince on 26 June 2013 5:01 am
The Mets used to go down to defeat pretty easily. At best, they practiced a form of passive-aggressive behavior that dared otherwise reluctant opponents to remain on the field long enough to incidentally vanquish them. It often manifested in 15- or 20-inning episodes of offensive ineptitude, but you didn’t leave those losses feeling that if […]
by Greg Prince on 8 May 2013 2:23 am
Matt Harvey was not the only man in a Mets jersey to have the whole world in his back pocket Tuesday night.
It could have been more perfect, I guess. There could have been a little less hole for Alex Rios’s seventh-inning two-out grounder to edge into. Ruben Tejada could have been overcome by […]
by Greg Prince on 1 October 2012 9:42 am
Like any properly focused Mets fan, I’ve followed the American League playoff picture with the same overarching desire with which I’ve followed every American League playoff picture: rooting for the Yankees to be eliminated from it. (Request to anybody who wants to chime in with haughty declarations regarding the insignificance of this outcome to overall […]
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