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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 Jason Fry on 17 December 2007 5:50 pm
Quick clothing-related update: Our stash of shirts from Print Mojo is going fast, but we've ordered a whole bunch more in all sizes. They should be available in around two weeks — we'll post when the new batch is up. In the meantime, this is our first time working with this vendor, so if you […]
by Greg Prince on 17 December 2007 8:35 am
It's late January 1981 and for some reason, “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg is played heavily on the radio. Shouldn't a song with that title have been out a month earlier? Regardless, it's one of the most evocative songs I will ever know. He steals behind her in the frozen foods; she went […]
by Greg Prince on 15 December 2007 1:10 pm
Four good things to come out in the wake of the Mitchell Report:
1) I noticed a TV in a store window this morning beaming a flickering image of Roger Clemens. If this were the movies, a crowd of hard-bitten men in fedoras would have been gathered around, grinding out their cigars in disgust. You know […]
by Greg Prince on 14 December 2007 1:40 pm
I rolled over this morning and snuggled with Baseball as I usually do. “Oh, you are the best!” I cooed. “The things you do for me.” Yet Baseball seemed a little distant.
“What's the matter honey?” I asked. “You were GREAT! You're always GREAT!”
“Uh, yeah, about that…”
“What? What about that? What about that pinch-hit you gave […]
by Jason Fry on 14 December 2007 1:01 pm
A year after we sold out of the first batch, we've finally got our act together and are proud to make available a second batch of the famous Faith and Fear “numbers” t-shirts, seen over the last 12 months in photos of readers taken from Verona, N.J., to Venice.
Only difference between these new shirts and […]
by Jason Fry on 13 December 2007 4:14 am
I've written in depth about performance-enhancing drugs twice on this blog.
The first time was when the San Francisco Chronicle established, to the satisfaction of all but the most-determined fantasists, that Barry Bonds had taken steroids (and insulin and HGH and Clomid and, for good measure, crap that makes cattle more muscular). I called Bonds's story […]
by Greg Prince on 12 December 2007 5:42 pm
For everybody who complains that SNY never shows the obvious Mets Classics (and that would include everybody), tune in tonight at 7 for a replay of the Ten-Run Inning game of June 30, 2000, the signature contest of our last pennant season. Forget that the Snighsite refers to it as the “10 inning comeback” and […]
by Greg Prince on 11 December 2007 4:51 am
I am saddened to report that the Mets are faring no better in fiction than they are in reality this offseason.
Keeping an eye out for any appearance by our logo or laundry in the popular culture, I sat through an ABC telepic Sunday night called Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom’s For One More Day. With […]
by Greg Prince on 7 December 2007 8:16 pm
Santana — we haven't got!
Dan Haren — we haven't got!
The D-Train — we haven't got!
What've we got?
Good question. If we eliminate heart — and based on the events of September 14-30, you'd kind of have to until further notice — we've got OK starting pitching, maybe even more than adequate starting pitching. We've got Pedro, […]
by Jason Fry on 5 December 2007 5:10 am
OK, quick quiz: If I told you that the Mets had just swung a deal in Nashville (they haven't), and included a link where you could find out the details, what would be your emotions as you clicked through?
If you chose “anxiety,” “despair,” “dread” or a similar word as your answer, welcome to the 2007 […]
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