 
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 It comes in my size, but it wouldn't have fit. A confession: since the first week of December, I’ve been window-shopping at marlins.com. I’ve eyed, ogled and contemplated Item No. 12551066: Miami Marlins Jose Reyes Name and Number T-Shirt by Majestic Athletic. Out of curiosity after Reyes made his free agent decision, I looked to [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Continued Separation Pangs, Fred Wilpon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, T-shirts 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 As baseball fans, we have a lot of phrases we repeat to ourselves to keep watching after things have gone to hell. As Mets fans, I’d wager we have even more of them. Down 8-1 8-0 [sorry, was apparently huffing paint thinner] after the top of the first? You never know how the other starter will [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Cubs, Dillon Gee, Fans, Fred Wilpon, Justin Berg, Keith Hernandez, Rain, Wrigley Field I thought it was passion, but it’s just drama. Is there a more exhausting baseball club to root for than the New York Mets? Has there ever been a more exhausting baseball club to root for than the New York Mets? The Mets used to tire us out with manic playoff runs, [...] “Your phone number for a Monday night schmooze, One Eight Seven Seven, Three Three Seven, Six Six Six Six on your Fan — WFAN, here taking your calls until Richard Neer at ten o’clock. Fred from Locust Valley, you’re next.” “Hello Steve.” “Hello Fred! You’re calling from the Valley of the Locusts, with the bedbugs…what already?” “Steve, I [...] 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 Before the latest round of Wilpon news erupted, I had been thinking about owning a baseball team. I don’t mean that in the “I had some spare zillions lying around and was looking to buy one,” but rather why people (very rich people) would do it. Usually owners come to the fore when there’s bad [...] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Neukom, Fred Wilpon, Giants, Jeff Wilpon, New York Giants, Ownership, Polo Grounds, Willie Mays |
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