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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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View Article  It Would Be Funnier If It Were Happening to Somebody Else
He overslept? Because he thought it was a 4 o'clock start local?

Oh Ramon, you do keep everybody loose.

Me, I'm theoretically in stitches because the Mets have passed the point of being a team I can truly stress over and are on the verge of being a team I have no choice but to laugh at. Or with. Whatever. It's all good. Or as good as it's going to get right now.

This is a silly, silly team. They lose three games by the exact the same score because they can't generate more than three runs total. Then they generate three runs in the first inning of the fourth game. Then they lose anyway.

And Ramon Castro overslept or didn't understand time zones.

Somebody hits a batter with the bases loaded and the game ends. Somebody on our side is safe on a rundown between home and third and we get almost nothing out of it. Somebody is sent into battle again and again despite two concussions despite a heartbeat in his head and finally he's definitively sat down. The other team has a runner run into a batted ball twice and they win those games. Finally, the backup catcher who doesn't play more than twice a week can't make it to the ballpark on time to catch a future Hall of Famer.

If it's not ha-ha funny, then ain't that peculiar?

The Mets are absurd. For all their ungoodness; for all their astounding lack of depth; for all the scoring they don't do when they pitch and all the pitching they don't do when they score; for all the name players that don't add up to what you could accurately call a team; for the seven of nine they somehow won before dropping four straight to the heretofore worse Padres; for their one rock of stellar performance who isn't shy about calling teammates out yet nailed the coffin of this trip shut by giving up a three-run homer to somebody who used to share a number with Mr. Met.

They are absurd. They're still working on lovable.
View Article  Dar-ryl! Dar-ryl! (Tell Him Yourself)
Addendum to Mets Stuff Worth Knowing About: You can meet No. 1 prodigal son Darryl Strawberry Tuesday night between 6 PM and 7 PM at the Best Buy Rockefeller Center store, 559 Fifth Avenue at 46th St. No, he's not the stuff in question (though he surely had the right kind in his day); rather, Straw''ll be signing copies of Essential Games of Shea Stadium and another DVD that sounds so cool that even I didn't know about it 'til just now (not to imply I'm at all cool): Shea Goodbye: 45 Years of Amazin'. Matthew Broderick narrates and it touches all the Shea bases, the big Met moments, the beloved Shea traditions (Banner Day!) and even the non-baseball stuff.

Sounds pretty good even without Darryl's signature.

MORE DARRYL: Strawberry's return to Shea as a Dodger is Monday night's Mets Classic on SNY, 7 PM. Spoiler alert: we win.
View Article  2-1 Odds Don't Favor Mets
Last Sunday evening at Shea Stadium, jockey Kent Desormeaux threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Willie Randolph. Saturday each shared a problem: They had no horse.

No Triple Crown for Desormeaux's mount. Three consecutive 2-1 losses for the Randolph's stallions. Big Brown finished last. The Mets are running well out of the money and the remainder of their course looms longer than that at Belmont.

Do the Mets appear capable of pulling from the back of the pack to nose ahead of those Phillies at the wire? What is it horses say again? Oh yeah...

Naaaaaay!

I know nothing about horse racing except that a horse with a crack in his hoof probably isn't poised to win the most challenging race of his life. That and every time they tell us this is the year there'll be a Triple Crown, it means it won't happen.

I'd like to think I know a few things about baseball, but I have no idea when the Mets are going to start scoring some runs again. None at all.

I might have bet on Wright in the third at Petco, galloping as he was when that old nag Delgado set a fast pace by doubling to the right of the right field jury box. Wright could have cantered home given Brian Giles' throw from the pole position. Alas, Sandy Alomar was as cautious as Kent Desormeaux and pulled the reins in on David. Fernando Tatis then put the inning — and the Mets' offense — out of its misery for the rest of the night.

The Mets trotted into San Diego winners in seven of their previous nine starts knowing they wouldn't have to face Maddux or Peavy or Young. They've scored one run every night anyway. What were the odds of that happening?

Short, apparently.