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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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In Review: The Greatest Hits of 1986

Relieve the Greatest Hits of 1986, as told in Flashback Friday throughout the 2006 season….

Overture

Le Bel Age

Mad About You

Human

Higher Love

Danger Zone

Sanctify Yourself

When The Heart Rules The Mind

Live To Tell

The Sweetest Taboo

We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off

The Rain

Absolute Beginners

Manic Monday

When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

One Hit to the Body

Sledgehammer

The Next Time […]

We Never Did Like That Guy

Guillermo Mota: Bad guy. Threw at Piazza.
Guillermo Mota: Good guy. Got batters out for us.
Guillermo Mota: Gone guy. Suspended 50 games for violating MLB drug policy.
If he did anything wrong, obviously it took place either while he was still in the Indians organization or the moment he filed for free agency. The Guillermo Mota we […]

We Never Did Like That Guy

Guillermo Mota: Bad guy. Threw at Piazza.

Guillermo Mota: Good guy. Got batters out for us.

Guillermo Mota: Gone guy. Suspended 50 games for violating MLB drug policy.

If he did anything wrong, obviously it took place either while he was still in the Indians organization or the moment he filed for free agency. The Guillermo Mota we […]

Hanging On Before Moving On

Yeah, winter is without use. Evaluating every milepost along its dreary way, from Halloween through April Fool's — it's all winter until Opening Day — only serves to remind us that there's no new baseball immediately en route. How anybody can invest anticipation toward anything that doesn't start with a first pitch is beyond me.
Good […]

Hanging On Before Moving On

Yeah, winter is without use. Evaluating every milepost along its dreary way, from Halloween through April Fool's — it's all winter until Opening Day — only serves to remind us that there's no new baseball immediately en route. How anybody can invest anticipation toward anything that doesn't start with a first pitch is beyond me.

Good […]

Winter

Tonight, around 6ish: We're getting ready to carve a pumpkin when Joshua looks up and asks, “Is there baseball tonight?”
One of my happiest nights as a father was the first night Joshua asked that. Emily and I coached him through the end of the season, and then through the playoffs. I explained that there were […]

Winter

Tonight, around 6ish: We're getting ready to carve a pumpkin when Joshua looks up and asks, “Is there baseball tonight?”

One of my happiest nights as a father was the first night Joshua asked that. Emily and I coached him through the end of the season, and then through the playoffs. I explained that there were […]

As the Cardinals Celebrated

I'll never know if she saw me. Probably not. But in that moment, all the bad memories, all the things I'd ever wanted to say to her, it all came flooding back.
My first impulse was to run over there, pound on her window and demand that she admit she tore down those posters and lied […]

As the Cardinals Celebrated

I’ll never know if she saw me. Probably not. But in that moment, all the bad memories, all the things I’d ever wanted to say to her, it all came flooding back.

My first impulse was to run over there, pound on her window and demand that she admit she tore down those posters and lied […]

The Way It Is (Quicker Than a Ray of Light)

“Skateboard wheels my ass!”
Once I saw that subject line, I knew who was writing. It was Ray Stilwell, Metphistopheles himself. He was, in the parlance of Sportsphone, fast and first in September with almost all the answers to our first DVD quiz.
Almost. He answered “skateboard” when the right reply was “skateboard wheels,” a detail captured […]