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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 6 April 2018 1:01 pm These Mets are so good, they deserve to be televised on television. These Mets have so much magic to do, Pippin has to be planning another Broadway revival. These Mets have dispirited the Nationals to such an extent that D.C doesn’t wanna come out and play on a Friday.
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by Greg Prince on 5 September 2017 10:17 am On Monday, the Mets scored many runs, gave up a few less, won a baseball game, and announced several of their players would be going in for surgery. It’s indicative of how 2017 has unraveled that the win seemed like the most surprising development of the bunch.
The 2017 Mets have carved out a fistful of […]
by Greg Prince on 24 August 2017 7:29 pm Here’s some good news: the Mets didn’t lose Michael Conforto in the middle of a playoff hunt. Man, that would hurt. Hurt like Conforto’s left shoulder appeared to when he dislocated it after swinging and missing against Arizona starter Robbie Ray in the fifth inning at Citi Field on Thursday. Conforto went down on the […]
by Jason Fry on 24 August 2017 1:33 am In the summer of 1977, with Tom Seaver exiled to Cincinnati, the Mets tried to lure fans back to Shea Stadium with the cheery come-on “bring your kids to see our kids.”
It didn’t work — nothing short of M. Donald Grant’s public execution would have worked under the circumstances — but this month I keep […]
by Greg Prince on 14 August 2017 10:49 am When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 2-0, you assume there was very good pitching. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 9-5, you assume there was a good bit of hitting. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 6-2, […]
by Greg Prince on 11 August 2017 9:06 am The Mets can’t beat the Dodgers, the best team in baseball. The Dodgers have been beating everybody regularly, though they’ve looked human against the Braves. The Braves can’t beat the Phillies. The Phillies, particularly at home, can’t beat the Mets.
Hey — did we just become the best team in baseball?
Pythagoras called and said I’m deriving […]
by Greg Prince on 29 July 2017 12:55 pm A few impressions from a late night in Seattle absorbed via the television in New York before I drifted off to a dreamland in which the Mets don’t linger in distant American League cities where the designated hitter is de rigueur.
• The DH bites. We’ve been through this before. We’ll be through it again. I’m […]
by Greg Prince on 24 July 2017 12:28 pm Willie Mays. Howard Johnson. Michael Conforto. The connective tissue? Besides having been New York Mets All-Stars? Each can be identified as an on-deck batter.
You don’t see On-Deck Batter listed as a position anywhere. Neither the 1973 nor 1976 Topps set included a graphic to indicate what an On-Deck Batter looked like. Nevertheless, every position player […]
by Greg Prince on 22 July 2017 2:57 am “Let’s take a look!”
The big story — Mets 2017.
Exciting. Thrilling. Awesome!
Not very often.
Ten-game homestand.
Two straight wins!
Three straight losses.
Three more wins!
Friday…Oakland.
Tough opponent?
Not really!
Steven Matz?
Five innings.
Terry Collins?
Seen enough.
Michael Conforto — home run!
Once?
Twice!
RBIs?
Four!
T.J. Rivera — home run?
Not really.
Oakand A’s?
Oakland E’s!
One out, two on, T.J. up, A’s lead…
One hit, one more out, three runs in, Mets lead!
Lucas […]
by Jason Fry on 18 July 2017 10:41 am The Mets don’t actually travel the earth with a black cloud over their heads, but it sure does seem that way sometimes.
From Zack Wheeler to Hansel Robles to Yoenis Cespedes, Monday night’s game was one stomach punch after the other, almost as if baseball was trying to point out the folly of continuing to subject ourselves […]
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