Just in time for Pitchers & Catchers, we have broken into the Top 20 portion of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. The focus of this entry is neither a pitcher nor a catcher, but he does happen to be somebody who will be reporting to Port St. Lucie in the […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2019 Mets, Brodie Van Wagenen, Carlos Beltran, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Home Runs, Hubris, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Pete Alonso, Todd Frazier, Todd Hundley In one of those Faith and Fear traditions known only to me, I like to present a list as long as Eric Hillman’s left arm when my birthday falls on a Sunday. Since we’ve been doing FAFIF, my birthday has fallen on a Sunday twice, in 2006 and 2017. Today is the third time. I’m […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, 1977 Mets, 1979 Mets, 1982 Mets, 1992 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2017 Mets, 2020 Mets, 2023 Mets, Armando Benitez, Birthdays, Bob Hope, Bob Murphy, Daryl Boston, Dave Kingman, Empty, Esix Snead, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, High School Musicals, Jesse Orosco, John Olerud, Jon Matlack, Lenny Randle, McDonald’s, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Peanuts, Richie Hebner, Stephen Jay Gould, Superstripe, Travis d'Arnaud, Turtle Wax, Wristbands Welcome back to Faith and Fear in Flushing’s recently dormant series 3B-OF/OF-3B, an attempt to understand why the New York Mets have spent so much of their (and our) lives trying to fit guys who play one position well at a position where they inevitably less well. Or, if you care to be sanguine about […] What Joey Lucchesi did on Friday night was, in the pitching-short present, necessary and appreciated. Off the radar for nearly two years while he underwent and rehabbed from Tommy John surgery, Joey the Churve stormed back from obscurity and Syracuse to do more for the Mets in one outing than he had done the whole […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 1976 Mets, Craig Swan, Dave Kingman, Home Runs, Joey Lucchesi, Pete Alonso, Sports Phone, Team History On July 22, 1995, the no-name, no-hope New York Mets were hot, having emerged from the All-Star break winning seven of nine. On the soundstage where they shot Star Trek: Voyager, Jeri Ryan presumably looked up, thinking her character was written into a new scene as SportsCenter blared in the background. Seven of nine! The Mets […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1976 Mets, 1995 Mets, Anniversaries, Craig Swan, Dave Kingman, Del Unser, The Spectors 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 […] When the Mets finish up with the Cardinals they will play their next 19 games against the Braves, Cubs, Phillies and Yankees, bringing them to the All-Star break. Those four clubs have a collective winning percentage of .572. You never know in baseball, but those 19 games may provide a decisive verdict about who, exactly, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Dave Kingman, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Predictions, Rhys Hoskins, Wilmer Font When you play in a bandbox, strike up the band nice and loud. The Mets hit only one home run on Tuesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium and lost by seven. The Mets hit three home runs on Tuesday night in the same selectively diminutive venue — brothers […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1976 Mets, 90th Birthdays, At This Pace, Carlos Beltran, Contemporary Bobby Riggs Reference, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Doris Day, Frank Thomas, Hack Wilson, Home Runs, Marlon Byrd, Mickey Mantle, Pete Alonso, Roger Maris, Subway Series, Team History, Todd Hundley Remember when Jose Reyes not getting hits and Matt Harvey not getting outs were the Mets’ only pressing problems? Good times. The Reyes some of us stubbornly love and remember returned Saturday night in Atlanta, tweeting playfully “Jose Reyes will […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Braves, Bullpen, Dave Kingman, Hadji the Cat, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Long Season, Matt Harvey You know we cherish our Mets Pop Culture here, so much so that at the end of every year we round up the previous twelve months of such sightings — anywhere that anything Mets shows up in a non-sports, non-news context — and present them with Oscar’s Cap Awards. That, of course, is Oscar as in […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A League of Their Own, Blogging, Chico Escuela, Dave Kingman, Don Hahn, Greg Goossen, Humor Me, Internal Affairs, Juan Samuel, Madam Secretary, Mets Pop Culture, Oscar's Cap Awards, Rudy, Sam Hoffman, Show Business, Television, Unlikely Events |
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