 
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. |
So this simultaneously struck a chord and was no fun at all. What might improve things? 1) Make a date to see Knuckleball! It’s a terrific movie — a smart, sweet baseball valentine, and a wonderful character study of our own R.A. Dickey, Tim Wakefield and their forerunners as knuckleballers — Phil Niekro, Charlie Hough, Wilbur [...]  30 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Wright, Hope, Howard Megdal, Jonathon Niese, R.A. Dickey 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 “OK, settle down everybody. We’ve got Spring Training coming up in a couple of weeks, so this meeting is important as it allows us as an organization to address the issues that might be holding us back from succeeding in 2012. First on the agenda is deciding how to replace Jose Reyes’s output at the [...] 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 Bad news is your late afternoon has been ruined by raintime in the Rockies. Good news is your previously pre-emptively ruined entire Thursday has been rescheduled as worthwhile, as the Mets will take on Coloradoans (be wary — they’re very well-schooled) tomorrow at 3 o’clock. To fill the yawning gap from now until then, you can… • [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Gallo, Howard Megdal, Matthew Silverman, Rain, Sincere Plugs The 2010 Mets are a temporary condition. Mets fandom, however, is a lifetime proposition. Some dispatches from around Metsopotamia, most of them showing us again that blue and orange waters run deep. • Faith and Fear reader Tim Hanley wrote in to let us know he and his home movie of Ron Swoboda’s Game [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Bill Mazeroski, Bing Crosby, FAFIF Shirt, Gary Sheffield, Howard Megdal, Ken Burns, Matthew Silverman, Moment of Silence, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tug McGraw, Wayne Twitchell Sure, I thought it was a little kooky, some fan/writer declaring his candidacy for an office to which he couldn’t be elected because it’s not an elective office. I like a good gag, but how far can you stretch one? Howard Megdal was practically Plastic Man in that regard. He was stretching the gag. He [...] Howard Megadal, still running hard, brought his campaign to AMAZIN’ ALL-STAR MONDAY last night at Two Boots Grand Central and no doubt earned himself some votes with a winning stump speech and earnest Q&A. Thanks to Howard for setting the stage and Marty Noble taking it from there. Marty’s session, covered beautifully by Matt Artus [...] The Megdal for GM campaign has come to Faith and Fear. If you’re a connoiseur of other Mets blogs in addition to this one (and it’s OK if you are), you’re probably aware writer Howard Megdal is running hard for the office of New York Mets general manager. While there is no known election for [...] |
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