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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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Get Outta Town

by on 29 April 2021 1:19 am

Go Mets. Better yet, go away Mets. And stay away.

For about a week. Then come back.

Clear your heads. Fill your bats. Get hits. Several per inning. Find your inner line drive in Philadelphia. Keep your ropes frozen in St. Louis.

Anybody who boos you at your next two stops means it. Anybody who booed you at […]

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The Booing at the Margins

by on 28 April 2021 11:02 am

My usual approach to frustrating losses is to recap them as quickly as possible and have faith that the sun rising again will bring a little optimism back with it. But sometimes I can’t bring myself to do that and opt for a different strategy, which is basically to go to bed and hope it […]

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Get Into the Groove, Boys

by on 26 April 2021 11:23 am

And so it came to pass on the seventh day that the Mets had played six games in a row, one each day, as the Great Scorekeeper intended. It took them weeks to reach such a state of grace, playing baseball every day without interruption, but on the seventh day, a.k.a. Sunday, that became their […]

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They Shouldn't Have

by on 25 April 2021 1:12 am

After the Nationals were thoroughly dismantled by Jacob deGrom Friday night, even the defeated team’s social-media gang had to acknowledge his insane dominance:

Sometimes you’ve just gotta tip your cap.

FINAL // Nats 0, Mets 6 pic.twitter.com/Bi0Re8wPhV

— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 24, 2021

A classy gesture! And on Twitter, no less!

The next day, deGrom’s Met teammates […]

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The Incomparable Jacob deGrom

by on 24 April 2021 5:52 am

“Don’t ever embarrass anybody by comparing him to…” might read as the beginning of a familiar quote from Reds manager Sparky Anderson, uttered at the conclusion of the 1976 World Series. Thurman Munson of the losing Yankees hit .529 in the four-game Cincinnati sweep. His catching counterpart, Johnny Bench, hit .533 and won Most Valuable […]

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I'd Rather Not Have What He's Having

by on 23 April 2021 12:23 am

It’s not quite “LFGM” — that was both snappier and happier — but Pete Alonso added to his book of quotations once Thursday night’s game against the Cubs had mercifully ended, telling the assembled scribes that “getting swept feels like eating a shit sandwich, to be honest with you.”

I can’t say and I hope the […]

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As Bob Murphy Might’ve Called It

by on 22 April 2021 10:40 am

It isn’t a beautiful night at normally beautiful Wrigley Field, as the Mets have fallen further behind the Chicago Cubs, and now manager Luis Rojas comes out of the dugout to have a word with home plate umpire Bruce Dreckman, apparently ready to make a change to his lineup. After conferring with Dreckman, Luis walks […]

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Thinking Can Only Hurt the Ballclub

by on 21 April 2021 10:59 am

I love J.D. Davis, from his weirdo back-construction nickname (“Jonathan Gregory Davis” doesn’t obviously suggest “J.D. Davis,” but “Jonathan Davis” plus a little repetition does) and his shrill heckling to his postgame manic episodes and general air of just being tickled to play baseball. But a thinking J.D. Davis is his own worst enemy.

I’ll paint […]

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Glove, Actually

by on 19 April 2021 12:04 pm

You can’t talk about Sunday’s 2-1 Mets win at Coors Field without acknowledging the run the Mets strung together in the second inning, built on a Pete Alonso single, a Michael Conforto double and well-placed Jeff McNeil groundout. You can’t talk about the Mets taking their three-game series without taking note of J.D. Davis’s bat […]

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Let's Play One

by on 18 April 2021 1:10 am

Here’s a proposed rule change for baseball to consider: A team that wins the first game of a doubleheader in inspiring style doesn’t have to play the second game. They get to defer it for a day and bask in the afterglow, instead of going right back into battle and risking an emotional fallen souffle.

The […]

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