If you’re up on your Met lore, you know that you could just as easily be up on your Meadowlark lore had Joan Payson foisted her first choice for a team name on the new National League ballclub she was bankrolling. Mrs. Payson liked Meadowlarks and who are we who are native to the Flushing […]
 
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 |  1962 Mets, Joan Payson, Meadowlarks, National League Town, Podcasting, Rogers Hornsby Our co-newest Met is wearing a familiar number. Flamethrower Edwin Diaz, whom I already appreciated for being really good before discovering his nickname is “Sugar,” will wear 39. That’s no particularly big thing in the annals of Met lore: the first 39 that pops into my head is Gary Gentry, the blueprint for all too many […] The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the Mets give up today?” The person working the desk reported, “None.” The caller had a followup: “Did they win?” Yes, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Addison Reed, Andrelton Simmons, Angels, Ben Revere, Cameron Maybin, Damn Yankees, Danny Espinosa, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, Jose Reyes, Losing Streaks, Michael Conforto, Mike Scioscia, Mike Trout, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Ricky Nolasco, The Americans, The Waltons, The West Wing, Welcome Back Kotter For 90 seconds or so, there was joy in Metville. We’d punished the Cubs for removing Jake Arrieta, whose curveball had jelly-legged Met knees and kicked out Met fannies and turned Met bats into fan blades throughout another insanely beautiful August afternoon. We’d reminded ourselves that we do too like Curtis Granderson, who broke a seemingly centuries-long […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Jake Arrieta, Joan Payson, Matt Szczur, Rafael Montero A sportswriter once asked Yankees owner Colonel Ruppert to describe his perfect afternoon. Replied Ruppert: “It’s when the Yankees score eight in the first and then slowly pull away.” Wrong team, different margin, but yeah — a flurry of first-inning Mets hits was all Bartolo Colon would need, and all we’d need with our team finally back […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Joan Payson, Todd Radom, Uniforms Casey and Joan get together again for a little Mets baseball. Mets fans wait. It’s what we do. We waited through four barren seasons to have National League baseball in the first place, only to wait seven seasons stuck in ninth or tenth place. The Jobian patience mandated by the minute progress of the earliest […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Anthony Recker, Casey Stengel, Cody Ross, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, John Buck, Kevin McReynolds, Kirk Gibson, Post Traumatic Mets Disorder, Rain Delays Ryder takes his FAFIF shirt out for a Citi Field on-field spin. Stephanie and I have enjoyed telling people we know Ryder Chasin since the day we met him at his Bar Mitzvah in the fall of 2009. If that sounds like an unusual place to meet somebody for the first time, Ryder was […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bar Mitzvah, FAFIF Shirt, Goodfellas, Joan Payson, Ryder Chasin, VIP Treatment Welcome to the final installment of The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that concludes here with the “best” 162nd game in any Mets season and the […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1999 Mets, Al Leiter, Ed Kranepool, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Carter, Joan Payson, Lorinda de Roulet, Melvin Mora, Rick Reed, Rickey Henderson, Sid Fernandez, Team History, The Happiest Recap First, to the McCann of the Hour… I didn’t have a favorite Brave before, but I do now. Thank you Brian McCann for ending a streak of twelve consecutive negative All-Star decisions that seemed destined to reach thirteen on habit if not merit. And you’re welcome, Brian McCann, for our firing you up properly at Citi Field […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, All-Star Game, Bobby Bonilla, Brian McCann, Buddhism, Chris Young, Fred Wilpon, George Steinbrenner, Jeff Wilpon, Joan Payson, Lorinda de Roulet, M. Donald Grant, Matt Thornton, Media, Moment of Silence, Nelson Doubleday, Ownership, Rationalization, Richie Hebner, Ricky Bottalico, Roberto Alomar, Ty Wigginton, Vince Coleman, Wellington Mara, Winning Say — or should I say hey — you know who was a really good baseball player? Willie Mays. You probably knew that already, but you’ll really know it if you read Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James Hirsch. You’ll know a ton by the time you float through its 560 pages of text. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, Citi Field, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, James Hirsch, Joan Payson, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays |
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