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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 7 July 2024 11:05 pm
When your team’s going well, you call a game like Sunday afternoon’s things like “an inspiring win” or perhaps “proof of resilience.”
When your team’s going badly, you just laugh at being randomly atop karma’s wheel for a day.
I’m not sure what to call Sunday afternoon’s game, because I’m not sure what the Mets are.
One of […]
by Jason Fry on 2 July 2024 11:39 pm
This recap’s headline is a term we’ve heard a lot in the sabermetric age, as front offices search for previously overlooked and/or undervalued traits in players. The last two nights, I’ve found a new market inefficiency as a fan: You don’t need to watch the part of the game that doesn’t matter.
I don’t recommend this […]
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 29 June 2024 10:04 am
I won’t claim it’s high on my lengthy list of Selig/Manfred era outrages, but it annoys me that the Astros are in the American League. They’re our expansion siblings, after all, arriving along with us in 1962 as the Colt .45s.
We began as a novelty act to salve the still-fresh wounds of Dodgers and Giants […]
by Greg Prince on 22 June 2024 6:58 am
“Solstice schmolstice,” they might say in the bleachers at Wrigley Field, where the exact position of the sun doesn’t matter as long as it’s out somewhere. They have their new tradition of building a cup snake that wends all the way to Lake Michigan, perhaps Michigan itself, and they have their old tradition of throwing […]
by Jason Fry on 22 June 2024 12:58 am
Here’s a list of what I did Thursday during our week of vacation on Long Beach Island:
bike ride
pancakes
beach
hot dogs/beer
nap
more beach
mini-golf
tuna steaks/prosecco
ice cream
end of a ballgame
That’s a pretty damn good day, one I felt absurdly lucky to get to enjoy. The ballgame was the last couple of innings of the Giants and the Cardinals at Birmingham’s […]
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 1 June 2024 11:04 am
The alchemy of desperation works in mysterious ways. The Mets…
say their murky goodbye to Jorge Lopez;
have an accountability meeting;
decide they can do better for part-time catching and hitting with Luis Torrens than they any longer will with Omar Narváez;
opt to provide regular reps for Christian Scott at Syracuse rather than let the rookie’s momentum stall […]
by Greg Prince on 11 December 2023 5:59 pm
I count fourteen players with major league experience the Mets have picked up in the past month or so. I feel I recognize five, maybe six of the names. I’ve probably seen a few others as Met opponents but forgotten them. A generous portrayal of their collective appeal would be they provide our team with […]
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