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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 11 June 2016 10:21 am
The eleventh inning was rolling around
The opposing offenses were making no sound
Boyer the Brewer was manning the mound
Blaine looked to the plate
As the hour grew late
Asdrubal Cabrera was the hitter he found
Cabrera commenced
To single to right
To all, perhaps
An Asdrubal good night?
Flores was the Met
Seen teeing off next
A double to left
Thus entered the text
Cabrera wasn’t swift […]
by Greg Prince on 28 June 2012 5:41 pm
How great is “D-O-D-G-E-R-S (Oh Really? No, O’Malley)”? So great that Danny Kaye could almost be forgiven for, in 1962, glorifying a treacherous, greedy franchise five years after it eternally wounded Brooklyn’s soul. We will be rooting against the descendants of those Flatbush refugees for the next four nights, but any excuse to listen to […]
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