Where do you go after you’ve traded Amos Otis for Joe Foy? Not to the heights of the hot corner, we learned in 1970. As we pick up the thread of our OF-3B/3B-OF series, we shake off the Mets’ decision to swap a promising outfielder who didn’t appear promising at third for a third baseman […]
 
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. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
It got a little lost during Sunday night’s Academy Awards telecast, coming as it did after celebrity Mets fan Chris Rock was so rudely interrupted, but the Oscars aired their annual tribute (such as it was) to those no longer with us, which means, come the Monday morning after, we do the same. Except in […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Rock, Mets Who Have Left Us, Team History Armwise, I’m a righty who hails from a family of natural-born lefties. Sis is sinister by nature. So was Mom. Dad trended to the left side as a youngster, but this horrified his grandmother and he was converted to righthandedness before he was old enough to effectively protest. He lived 87½ years with the illegible […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, Bill Short, Doug Sisk, Joe Smith, Lefties, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Mike Montgomery, Moment of Silence, No Homers Club, Oliver Perez, Ralph Terry, Shea Stadium, Team History, Tim McGraw, Tug McGraw Hi again, Chasen Shreve — and you, too, Matt Reynolds and Johneshwy Fargas. The Mets decided to solve their lefthanded bullpen void by rewinding to 2020 and snatching up the perfectly capable Shreve, who by coming back after a season in Pittsburgh gets the chance to break free of his Silent Generation designation. May the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brad Hand, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Good Health, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Matt Reynolds, NL East Four-Timers Club, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Safety, Schedules, Spring Training, Travis Jankowski Great, there will actually be a season! Which means we have business to attend to — extending a slightly overdue welcome to 2021’s matriculating Mets, who are now in The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Aaron Loup, Akeem Bostick, Albert Almora Jr., Anthony Banda, Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Brad Hand, Brandon Drury, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Carrasco, Chance Sisco, Figgs, Francisco Lindor, Geoff Hartlieb, Heath Hembree, Jacob Barnes, Jake Hager, Jake Reed, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jerad Eickhoff, Joey Lucchesi, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonahs, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Mason Williams, Nick Tropeano, Patrick Mazeika, Rich Hill, Robert Stock, Sean Reid-Foley, Stephen Tarpley, Taijuan Walker, The Holy Books, Thomas Szapucki, Tommy Hunter, Tommy Milone, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor Hildenberger, Trevor May, Trevor Williams, Tylor Megill, Yennsy Diaz I’ve been thinking about one of my best friends from college lately. I do every year as February becomes March. I think of him intermittently regardless of month, but especially around now because now is his birthday. Mike Manning was born on March 13. I became aware of this fact sometime prior to Spring Break 1983. […] “Number Twenty Twenty-Two!” When last I dwelled on the Brooklyn Nets in this space, I was crushed by their seventh-game playoff loss in overtime to the eventual NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks. Had they beaten the Bucks, they surely (I’m sure) would have beaten the Hawks in the Eastern Conference finals, and then they would have sat four wins […] The year is 1970. Or it should be. That was the plan as we approached the third installment of our OF-3B/3B-OF series. We spent one segment focused mainly on 1962, because you can’t begin to understand the Mets’ signature position shuttle without delving into the start of something absurd; and we spent the next segment […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jerry Grote, John Stephenson, Mets Catchers, Mets Outfielders-Third Basemen, Mets Third Basemen-Outfielders, Team History, Tommie Reynolds, Wes Westrum, Yogi Berra Counterfactually, the Mets are in West Palm Beach today playing the Nationals. It’s not much of a counterfactual to the reality we live in to conclude the Mets would be busy training their spring away a little south of St. Lucie given that the Mets sent out a preliminary Spring Training schedule last August marking […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Lockout, Rob Manfred, Routine, Shrug, Spring Training |
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