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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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First Blood

The email came at mid-afternoon: Two tickets for tonight, did I want them?

I nearly broke several fingers replying in the hell-yes affirmative, then fired off a note to Greg. (You never know, he might have been busy tonight or something.) And so it was off to the ballpark for Faith and Fear — a rambling […]

Queens: An October Kind of Place

Pitching. Defense. Two-run homer.

Mets baseball.

Learn it. Know it. Live it.

It’s one game. One game does not make a series. But better to win one game than lose one game.

We won. The Cardinals lost. A perfect equation.

And at Shea, all was good. We waited six years to rereach the NLCS and five days to get it […]

Well Rested

The Mets are in the NLCS!

Really they are.

I know I heard it somewhere.

I think I did.

It does feel like a month of Mondays since we last played, when in fact it’s been only five days. It’s way long, but it’s not unprecedented. This matches the interval between the day we clinched the division in 1973 […]

Faith and Fear in the NLCS

We can kick the Cardinals’ ass. But they can kick ours.

And that, mis amigos, is the essence of faith and fear as regards what might happen next in Flushing, St. Louis and potentially Flushing again. In 20 months on the beat, I’ve never had the opportunity to apply our signature concept in such stark, significant […]

Breaking News

Even though it’s an off day, there a ton to report regarding the Mets.

• Willie Randolph is still the manager.

• Fred Wilpon has made no announcements on or off the record regarding Willie Randolph’s status.

• Third baseman David Wright figures to be batting in his usual spot in the order when the Mets play the […]

Oh, It's Been Brought

HEEEERE birdy, birdy…Some birds are more appealing than Redbirds, such as Zed Duck Studios.

Two Out of Three Weren't Good

The Cubs have been the Mets’ fiercest foes at various intervals in our history. And the Braves have been our enemies and obstacles for what was, until a couple of months ago, a very frustrating decade. But our only true sustained rivalry was the one we dug in for against the St. Louis Cardinals.

It doesn’t […]