 
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. Need our RSS feed? It's here. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
I’m at my low point as a Mets fan. It seems crazy to say it, but I really think it might be true. There have been disasters before, of course. I became a Mets fan in 1976, not knowing the team was about 14 months from becoming the baseball equivalent of North Korea. But I was a child [...]  70 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bernard Madoff, David Wright, Despair, Fred Wilpon, Howard Megdal, Jeff Wilpon If the Wilpons are still running this team for years to come and the Mets have been restored to some semblance of vitality because the organization is no longer distracted by an issue bigger than baseball, today’s settlement of the case concerning their involvement in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme before it could go to [...] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Ownership, Saul Katz, Settlement An unnamed spokesman for my favorite baseball team referred to a friend of mine as conducting a “desperate self-promotional campaign for relevance,” which is a shame. That’s no way for my favorite baseball team to act. As for my friend, Howard Megdal, I will echo his sentiments regarding his new e-book, Wilpon’s Folly, and suggest the [...] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Fred Wilpon, Howard Megdal, Mets Fan Perspective A friend and I were discussing recent Met developments over the weekend. He referred to “Gil and Reyes,” as in he perceives an anti-New York bias inherent in Gil Hodges not making the generally worthless National Baseball Hall of Fame and Jose Reyes not finishing in the Top Ten of the National League MVP voting. [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Coping, Disappointment, Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Team History For a from-the-seats perspective on Closing Day, I’ll bow to my partner, who was actually there. I saw it on SNY, and like a lot of you wound up with emotional whiplash: My euphoria at Jose Reyes’s hit was followed in uncomfortably short order by bafflement that his day was done practically before it began, which [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Farewells, Hope, Jose Reyes, Terry Collins, Wilpons The Times’ baseball preview brought along a column by George Vecsey that couldn’t have been better calibrated to infuriate Mets fans. Vecsey writes that we are conditioned to accept a magical season every generation or so, but know nothing of the sort is in the cards for 2011. “Absolutely not this year,” as he adds for [...] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, George Vecsey, Hope, Media Criticism, Sandy Alderson A few weeks ago today was a new entry on my Google Calendar: 2/26 Mets WPIX 1p. A couple of days ago I saw it waiting there, suddenly not so far away. Thursday night, as plans unfolded for the weekend, I raised it as an item in the mix. And then today, there I was coming [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Bud Selig, Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Sandy Alderson Say, wanna get even more depressed about the state of your favorite baseball team? Scrape the ice off your keyboard and visit the Times. There you can read all about how brilliant Fred Wilpon long ago decided Bernie Madoff was and how the Mets put a lot their money — which on some level had been our money [...] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Bobby Bonilla, Fred Wilpon, Mel Rojas |
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