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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 12 April 2025 7:49 am
Mets 3, A’s 1, game called after four and a half innings because your recapper was weary and collapsed into his bed.
Wait, they don’t do things that way? Apologies — I figured maybe they did, what with everything else that was strange about watching the Mets and the A’s play in a ballpark that looks […]
by Jason Fry on 6 April 2025 12:16 am
The City Connects were the perfect uniform for Saturday night’s Mets game, played in murky gray conditions with an inescapable wet chill, cascades of mist wafting through the air, and any ball that touched outfield grass leaving a spray of droplets to mark its progress.
A surprisingly big crowd showed up despite the obvious attractions of […]
by Jason Fry on 30 March 2025 11:59 am
The first week of baseball is seductive and also a little dangerous: You’re so glad to have baseball back and to resume the rhythms of fandom that you can shrug off the disappointment that comes with every game having a winner and a loser. The first week really does offer participant trophies, and each season […]
by Greg Prince on 27 March 2025 1:53 pm
It was 34 degrees this morning in New York because it’s March 27, and on March 27, about a week beyond winter, you’re as likely as not to get a very chilly morning. Days with mornings with that low a temperature don’t exactly scream baseball weather.
But the Mets were in Florida for a month-and-a-half (where […]
by Greg Prince on 19 December 2024 2:18 pm
For those keeping adjustable score of very recent, relatively quiet Met offseason acquisitions at home, you can pencil in the following:
Righthanded pitcher Yuhi Sako.
A southpaw counterpart named Brandon Waddell.
Jared Young, who plays first.
Catcher Chris Williams.
Righty Griffin Canning, who maddeningly contained Met bats one day last summer, so I can say, “Him I’ve heard of.”
If you […]
by Greg Prince on 5 August 2024 9:03 am
Let’s see…nine innings coming to bat…six innings with runners reaching…two innings with runners scoring…no more than one run scoring in any one inning.
That’s not a lot of offense to work with, and the Mets didn’t make it work for them. Five base hits, four walks, one hit-by-pitch, three opposition errors, yet all of two runs […]
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