Welcome to the second installment of MY FAVORITE MET SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a continuation of the project I introduced on my birthday. The ten seasons spotlighted below I liked a little more than the dozen I counted down on December 31, not as much as the thirty-three that are still […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1971 Mets, 1989 Mets, 1991 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, 2021 Mets, Brad Emaus, Danny Frisella, David Aardsma, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Jason Pridie, Jimmy Carter, Jose Reyes, Ken Singleton, Lance Johnson, Leroux, LFO, Lou Grant, Murray Head, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, New Kids On The Block, Rosalynn Carter, Tim Teufel, Todd Hundley, Willie Harris When Max Scherzer starts, which Max Scherzer will we get? The one who’s hypercompetitive, hyperintense and hyperfocused en route to a stifling mound performance? Or the one who’s all those things to less Met-positive discernible effect? Both, as Scherzer nears 40, exist in our world. We prefer the former. We have, for various reasons that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Sweeps, Taijuan Walker 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 The last two instances of the Baseball Equinox, marking the spot when we sit equidistant between the final out of last season and the scheduled first pitch of next season, were rendered inoperative in retrospect once COVID had its way with them. The opening of the entire 2020 baseball season was pushed back to July […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, 2022 Mets, Baseball Equinox, New Year's Eve, No Guarantees Late in Sunday’s season finale at Atlanta, Gary Cohen mentioned Braves pitchers had faced two over the minimum. When the 162nd game of 2021 concluded, that count had held. There’d been 29 Mets up and, with the assistance of a couple of double plays, 27 Mets down. Barely above the minimum similarly described the year of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Closing Day, Lindsey Nelson, Mets Baseball, Minimalism I finally got to the point I wish I could hurry along to in bad Mets seasons: the moment where the disappointment and anger drain away, I’m just sad things didn’t go better, and I remember that I should try to enjoy what little season is left. On Wednesday night Emily and I used the last […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Farewells, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Taijuan Walker Our club’s in jeopardy of disappearing from the divisional race they led for months on end, so perhaps the appropriate way to sum them up is through a smidgen of Jeopardy. THEY WERE NEVER Who are the 2021 New York Mets? Correct. Uncertainty has the board. The Mets of the moment […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2021 Mets, Identity, Mojo Risin’, Moment of Silence, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Robin Ventura CHAPTER 92: STOCK, NOGOSEK & HARTLIEB Following the Mets’ heaven-shaking, seven-homer, eleven-inning 15-11 triumph on Monday night July 19, their active roster didn’t have time to settle down. Dave Jauss, running the club during Luis Rojas’s two-game suspension, had announced in the aftermath of that historic victory — it was the only the second time the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Dave Jauss, Geoff Hartlieb, Oral History, Robert Stock, Roster Turnover, Stephen Nogosek The word that keeps getting repeated by Mets and people around the Mets is “electric”. Citi Field, they say, is electric. They’re not referring to how the stadium lights are lit or how its loudspeakers are amplified. They’re describing the atmosphere with fans filling seats with their anatomies and the air with their exclamations. Capacity […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, 2021 Mets, David Peterson, Electric, Jake Marisnick, Mets Fans, Team History, Unplugged A lifetime spent staring at the Mets’ skyline logo inevitably draws the eye to the bridge in the foreground. As the franchise’s official explanation details, the span “symbolizes that the Mets, in bringing National League baseball back to New York, represent all five boroughs.” It’s a helluva Met-aphor, and fairly close to geographically accurate from […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Ballparks, George Bamberger, Jack Egbert, Judd Apatow, Larry Bearnarth, Staten Island, Utter Foolishness |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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