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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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All Good Things Come to an End

by on 21 April 2024 10:15 pm

Baseball: So Betts, Ohtani and Freeman reached base 12 times in Saturday’s Mets-Dodgers game.
Me: OMG, did we lose by like two touchdowns? What poor position player threw the last two innings?
Baseball: Oh, the Mets won, 6-4.
Me: Huh?
Baseball: [shrugs]

— Jason Fry (@jasoncfry.bsky.social) Apr 20, 2024 at 11:46 PM

Like I said, that was Saturday.

On Sunday, the […]

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Scant Ups, Myriad Downs

by on 15 August 2021 10:34 am

Taijuan Walker was magnificent until the seventh inning. That was a monumental up. Michael Conforto cracked a go-ahead homer in the fourth. That was an invigorating up. Aaron Loup, Miguel Castro and Seth Lugo were each mighty effective, and those were unqualified ups, until we learned Lugo being up and pitching in the top of […]

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The Oldest Rorschach

by on 14 August 2021 9:17 am

It’s one of the oldest questions for a baseball fan who lives and dies with his or her team: If said team is fated to lose, how would you prefer that fate to unfold? Meekly and with minimal fuss? Or loudly but with the same outcome?

The Dodgers are a quarter-billion-dollar baseball death machine. Their lineup […]

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