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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 Jason Fry on 1 July 2024 11:05 pm
The Mets and the Nats, sheesh. I guess it proves that for every Nieuwenhuis there’s a Suzuki. And for the critical stretches of Monday night’s mildly bonkers game, it wasn’t clear whether the compass was going to wind up pointing to N or S.
And I missed the first five innings! I mean, so sue me […]
by Jason Fry on 26 June 2024 8:09 am
I stopped attending Subway Series games years ago because they’re like Thanksgiving dinners where every single uncle and cousin you dislike RSVPs that they’ll show up drunk and eager to talk politics. No thanks — I’ll catch these from my couch, where any woofing mookdom can be addressed as an internal affair.
That part’s predictable; the […]
by Greg Prince on 13 June 2024 11:13 am
It’s gonna get away, you tell yourself when an early 2-0 lead becomes a 2-2 tie. When the lead is rebuilt to 5-2, you figure maybe — maybe — the scenario developing won’t be worst-case. Then instead of remaining 5-2, the lead shrinks to 5-4, and you can sense where this is going. Yet when […]
by Greg Prince on 6 June 2024 10:28 am
Welcome to the United Kingdom. Before you enter the country, you must fill out this customs form.
NAME: New York Mets
OCCUPATION: Major League Baseball Team
PRIMARY DESTINATION WHILE VISITING: London Stadium
REASON FOR VISIT: Baseball Games (2)
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DECLARE?
(please answer in detail)
• We declare we have swept our three most recent baseball games, from the […]
by Greg Prince on 5 June 2024 9:10 am
A relatively stress-free win in which the Mets executed most facets of the sport at a higher level than their opponent for nine innings…was that too much to ask for?
It was not.
The Mets defeated an amorphous blob of unrefined talent better known as the Washington National Tuesday night, 6-3. They didn’t have to accidentally stumble […]
by Jason Fry on 10 April 2024 12:18 am
It’s a tenet of our blog that there are no moral victories in baseball — the loss column comes without asterisks, parentheses or stuff in superscript. Moral victories are losses.
Well, except when one of us declares that moral victories do too exist.
Maybe I was just in a good mood: Monday night’s game found me and […]
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