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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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The Mets of Tomorrow Today

by on 3 August 2008 11:18 pm

Evans! Murphy! Kunz! The future is now!

Some of it anyway.

It may not have been planned this way, it may not have been conceived as a winning strategy for 2008, but three Mets prospects, if such entities exist, walk, talk, hit, catch, run and throw among us. In the last two days, Nick Evans has gained […]

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It's Very Slowly Getting Away

by on 3 August 2008 7:25 am

For ten

Marvelous

Exciting

Tremendous

Spectacular

games, everything went the

Marvelous

Exciting

Tremendous

Spectacular

way.

Pitchers' duels. Slugfests. Late and close. Early and often. Go-ahead runs. Tack-on runs. Baserunners stranded. Dominant starting. Sterling relief. Almost everything going right.

Lately, it's been

Miserable

Enervating

Torpid

Slack

Not sure exactly where it started. Since the ten

Marvelous

Exciting

Tremendous

Spectacular

games, the

Miserable

Enervating

Torpid

Slack

ledger amounts to 6-8. That's fourteen games. That, by any calculation, is longer than ten games. Of more […]

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