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Greg Prince and Jason Fry
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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Through Opening-Day-Colored Glasses

by on 6 April 2012 1:03 am

Somewhere around the poorly named 46th St-Bliss I got a little carried away:

On Opening Day even the 7 local seems awesome.

That wasn’t true. The 7 local is never awesome, particularly not when the MTA has decided that Opening Day at Citi Field is a fine time to do track work. But I swear it felt […]

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As Baseball Whispers in Our Ear

by on 4 April 2012 10:19 pm

Let's Go Mets indeed.

Technically, you don’t gotta believe if you can’t find a reason to believe. In September 1973, ground zero for unbridled faith in the face of daunting odds, it didn’t require blind faith to believe. The Mets were close enough to dream and hot enough to make up gobs of ground […]

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Hofstra Time

by on 4 April 2012 3:38 am

Register. Attend. Take part.

The Hofstra 50th Anniversary Mets Conference must be getting close, and not just because I finally finished writing my paper for it. Indeed, the event Dana Brand envisioned and cultivated for years is upon us, arriving April 26-28, just three weeks from tomorrow. Registration information, along with a (mostly complete) […]

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Join the Rebellion

by on 3 April 2012 1:55 pm

Some readers may know that in one of my other lives I write Star Wars books — the latest one, The Essential Guide to Warfare, just came out today. Between that and Opening Day, it’s going to be a pretty busy week — and so I couldn’t resist one post mixing these normally separate worlds.

They […]

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Lane Pryce Tries to Sign Tom Seaver

by on 2 April 2012 8:58 am

Every Mets fan who watches Mad Men religiously knows Lane Pryce is one of us, thanks to the orange and blue pennant that adorns his office wall. But perhaps you didn’t know just how devoted our British compatriot is when it comes to the fortunes of the 1966 Mets.

Unfilmed scenes tell the tale…

“Don, do you have […]

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In Praise of Grant & Wilpon

by on 1 April 2012 2:36 am

The Mets’ 50th anniversary outdoor advertising campaign has been a preseason highlight. Perhaps you’ve seen the theme in action, with an image on the left representing the good old days and a modern counterpart representing hopeful new days. Seaver and Santana. Hernandez and Davis. That sort of thing.

But one iteration I caught sight of on […]

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