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ABOUT US
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 23 December 2008 2:54 pm
Greetings All!
Welcome to our Mets Family Holiday Newsletter! Is it possible another year has come and gone? Gosh, it seems like 2008 just started, all full of hope and yet here we are again.
The big news around here is our new house! Yes, even in this market! Let's just say we got a pretty good […]
by Greg Prince on 22 December 2008 8:33 am
How do Jets fans stand being Jets fans?
I’ve been a supporter of the Jets from a relatively safe distance since 1978. I won’t call myself a Jets fan in the sense that I’m a Mets fan, but I like them as a rule. I root for them against all outlanders always and even versus the […]
by Greg Prince on 21 December 2008 3:22 am
Best Metlike score one could hope for on December 20:
Your University of South Florida Bulls 41
Other Team from Wherever 14
That’s the final in the surprisingly prestigious magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl, played Saturday at a briefly reconfigured Tropicana Field — a multipurpose stadium whose purposes are baseball and football, you say? — up the road apiece […]
by Greg Prince on 19 December 2008 12:39 pm
If you've explored the upper reaches of your digital cable or satellite packages, you may have come across the test airing of the MLB Network. It's debuting in earnest New Year's Day, which is excellent counterprogramming against all that inane college football. We know the only bowl game on which to be truly Bullish is […]
by Jason Fry on 17 December 2008 5:18 am
Of course it was Greg who sent me the link, from the awesomer-than-awesome Crane Pool forum: A Met fan's first-ever game, preserved in New York Times prose and baseball cards, a card for each of the men who'd played in it, the whole shebang beautifully framed by this Mets fan. How cool is that?
So cool […]
by Greg Prince on 16 December 2008 1:15 am
Thirty years ago this very night, I made my debut on the big stage, or the biggest stage upon which I was ever going to act. I was in my first high school play, “Heaven Can Wait,” playing the key role of Inspector Williams…a key role if you consider eighth lead crucial to telling a […]
by Greg Prince on 13 December 2008 4:21 am
Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery…still, months after the robbery, they were finding bodies all over.
—Henry Hill on the aftermath of the Lufthansa thing
The Mets bullpen crew whacked the Mets’ playoff hopes. The Mets are getting even.
Heilman.
Smith.
Now this.
When they found Schoeneweis on the Diamondbacks, he was frozen so stiff it took […]
by Greg Prince on 11 December 2008 6:00 pm
Like any rightly prioritized Mets fan, I spent Wednesday evening watching the UltiMet Classic airing on SNY, the three-hit shutout spun by Johan Santana on Saturday, September 27. It was the final Mets win in the history of old Shea Stadium and, maybe, the end of an era in another way.
When Johan induced a deep […]
by Jason Fry on 11 December 2008 6:53 am
So with K-Rod barely over his tour of Citi Field, he gets a sidekick: J.J. Putz, whose name is pronounced “puts.” As in “puts down Phillie farragos, Brave brouhahas, Marlin mischief and Nat nastiness in the eighth.”
Unless he screws up, in which case it'll be pronounced the way I assumed it was pronounced until I […]
by Greg Prince on 9 December 2008 9:01 pm
Mets fans are a picky lot. Given a clear shot to sign the guy with the most saves ever in one season, that season being the most recent season, I haven’t seen a lot of “Oh Boy!” enthusiasm for that guy’s arrival. But he is arriving, crazy arm angles, dropping velocity and all. Reliable sources […]
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