One of the core tenets to emerge amid the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown is that the bromide “it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish” lacks foolproofitude. Sometimes the best part of a season is the start. Sometimes it’s somewhere in the middle. Sometimes it’s 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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2006 Mets, Billy Wagner, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, Droughts, Endy Chavez, Football, J.D. Martinez, John Maine, Jose Reyes, Jose Valentin, Mets Jackets, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Oliver Perez, Orlando Hernandez, Paul Lo Duca, Staying Alive What I have in common with Baseball Hall of Famer Gil Hodges I could count on very few fingers, but it delights me that one of them is a ring finger. Gil earned three World Series rings, two as a player in 1955 and 1959, one as a manager in 1969. I was presented with […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Endy Chavez, Gil Hodges, Irene Hodges, Jay Horwitz, Marvin Kaplan, Queens Baseball Convention, The West Wing So said Buck Showalter, engaging the media after the Mets’ 2-1 win over the Dodgers, and as usual Buck was right. It was fun, wasn’t it? Fun with a side of heart-stopping terror, or at least severe spikes of anxiety, but then that’s baseball. Fun was Jacob deGrom looking every inch the debonair assassin, carving up baseball’s […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Buck Showalter, Defense, Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, Ender Inciarte, Endy Chavez, Justin Turner, Mookie Betts, Narco, Starling Marte, Timmy Trumpet, Tyler Anderson Welcome to the ninth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Benny Agbayani, Billy Wagner, Cliff Floyd, Endy Chavez, John Franco, Mets of the 2000s, Paul Lo Duca, Rick Reed, Robin Ventura, Todd Zeile Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I’ve long had a soft spot for marginal Mets, the September call-ups and emergency starters you struggle to remember by season’s end, let alone years later. Part of that is because I love the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Art Howe, Bartolome Fortunato, Brad Wilkerson, Buddy Baumann, Dave Liddell, Endy Chavez, Francisco Estrada, Ghosts, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Kenny Greer, Kevin Morgan, Matt Reynolds, Montreal Expos, Todd Zeile, Wilson Delgado The second chapter of the perfect season completed itself Saturday, confirming that every good vibe we felt on Thursday was accurate. The Mets are 2-0 after beating St. Louis at Citi Field, 6-2. Clearly, they’ve gotten the hang of baseball and need only repeat everything they’ve done […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Al Weis, Alberto Castillo, Danny Heep, Endy Chavez, Jacob deGrom, Joe McEwing, Juan Lagares, Matt Franco, Opening Day, Opening Day Lineups, Phillip Evans, Players Who Didn't Start on Opening Day, Ray Knight, Rod Kanehl, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Travis d'Arnaud I keep a long list of phrases and ideas that I think might eventually come in handy in the writing of a team-specific baseball blog. Some I act on ASAP. Some I circle back to after a few weeks. Some linger unused until they’re too obscure or irrelevant to make much sense in a contemporary […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2014 Postseason, Aaron Heilman, Bagels, Endy Chavez, Ezequiel Carrera, Halloween Hindsight Haunters, J.J. Putz, Jason Vargas, Jeremy Reed, Joe Smith, Maikel Clato, Mike Carp, Omar Minaya, Sean Green Bravo, pretty much without exception and with only limited debate, for the 50th Anniversary Mets’ All-Time Team as revealed Sunday night at the 92nd Street Y and broadcast Thursday night on SNY. The committee empowered to choose the all-timers — Howie Rose, Gary Cohen, Marty Noble, John Harper, Mike Vaccaro and Mike Lupica — gave […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 50th Anniversary, All-Time Team, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, David Wright, Dennis Cook, Edgardo Alfonzo, Endy Chavez, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Joel Youngblood, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Mitchell, Melvin Mora, Mike Piazza, Rick Reed, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, Rusty Staub, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Terry Leach, Todd Pratt, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Turk Wendell “Some people never got over the sixties, or the war, or the night their band opened for the Rolling Stones at the Marquee, and spend the rest of their days walking backwards; I never really got over Charlie. That was when the important stuff, the stuff that defines me, went on.” 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, 2011 Postseason, Anniversaries, Endy Chavez, Getting Over It Aaron Heilman has been thwarted in his latest attempt to make a starting rotation and will pitch in relief for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Adam Wainwright is officially on the 60-Day Disabled List. Oliver Perez is feeling his way through a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals. Jeff Suppan has been released by the San […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Aaron Heilman, Adam Wainwright, Anniversaries, Carlos Beltran, Endy Chavez, Gratitude, Jeff Suppan, Milestones, Oliver Perez, Regret, Team History, Yadier Molina |
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