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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.
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 28 February 2008 8:55 am
Your 2008 New York Mets' potential/likely Opening Day roster:
CATCHERS (2)
Brian Schneider, Ramon Castro.
• Givens.
INFIELDERS (5)
Carlos Delgado, Luis Castillo, Jose Reyes, David Wright, Ruben Gotay.
• Gotay's switch-hitting and youth give him a leg up on Jose Valentin for utility infield purposes.
OUTFIELDERS (6)
Moises Alou, Carlos Beltran, Ryan Church, Endy Chavez, Marlon Anderson, Damion Easley.
• Anderson and Easley […]
by Greg Prince on 27 February 2008 12:30 am
If you've seen Mathematically Alive, the wonderful documentary on the condition known as Mets fandom, you will remember a cat in a hat straight out of Dr. Seuss. That cat, Matt Hoey, is the fellow who made it his business to camp out at Shea days in advance of the first tickets going on sale […]
by Jason Fry on 26 February 2008 5:40 am
“It’s like walking across the desert step by step and today he finally got to the oasis.”
That's Rick Peterson on Duaner Sanchez getting to pitch today in an intrasquad game, and with all due respect to the Jacket and bridge-potentially-too-far similes, both of which I approve of highly, throwing 25 pitches to teammates wearing hideous […]
by Greg Prince on 25 February 2008 7:05 am
The Academy would like to pause for a moment to remember those Mets who have left us in the past year…
Chan Ho Park, 2007
…Park was unlucky in the third, but that wasn’t bad luck in the fourth. That was nearly 900 feet of bad pitches redirected so quickly and violently by Amezaga and Ramirez that […]
by Greg Prince on 22 February 2008 8:49 am
Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 358 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories.
7/24/84 Tu St. Louis 2-2 Berenyi 1 […]
by Greg Prince on 20 February 2008 5:27 pm
Shea Stadium is as different from the average ball park as a jet plane is from the contraption the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
So reported a very early Mets yearbook, which also said Shea would be opening in the summer of '63 and that it would be “the greatest ball […]
by Greg Prince on 19 February 2008 12:29 pm
Well, at least you boys'll get to see the old manse, the home where I spent so many happy days in the bosom of my family, a refugium, if you will — with a mighty oak tree out front and a happy little tire swing.
—Ulysses Everett McGill
Right now, our favorite ballpark is the former Thomas […]
by Greg Prince on 18 February 2008 10:21 pm
Upon arriving in camp, Carlos Delgado was asked by reporters to explain himself, his lousy last season and his team's horrific nosedive. In the course of offering his take on 2007 (not as if we didn't see or couldn't figure it out for ourselves), he gave a shoutout to its predecessor:
“I think 2006 was a […]
by Jason Fry on 17 February 2008 3:43 pm
If you wanted an early indication that 2008 will be psychologically different (and who among us doesn't want that?), you can't get more of an early indicator than Carlos Beltran, of all people, giving the Philadelphia Phillies bulletin-board material.
After a fairly typical, mild-mannered give-and-take with reporters, one taken from the G-rated part of the hymnal […]
by Greg Prince on 16 February 2008 12:56 pm
In a way, this starts with Willie Randolph as long as he’s still managing our team. Willie Randolph commenced on the New York Mets adventure of a lifetime in the middle of February three years ago, as did Jason and I.
Watching Randolph’s Welcome Back press conference Friday, I felt an unusual kinship with Willie. Skip […]
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