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 […]
 
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. |
On Friday night the Mets played one of those OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR games: They seemed to have the Pittsburgh Pirates well in hand for a second straight night, starting with Taijuan Walker not giving up a hit until the fourth. The Mets repeatedly looked on the verge of knocking the […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Edwin Diaz, Farewells, John Stearns, Luis Guillorme, Oneil Cruz, Pirates, Taijuan Walker A 7-1 win is, by nature, convincing. Thursday night at Citi Field, the Mets got the 7, the Pirates got the 1 — the Mets won by a lot, no doubt about it. Very convincing. Very convincing for Thursday night, at least. Every win the Mets have racked up since September 2, within the parameters of […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Convincing, Daniel Vogelbach, Francisco Lindor, John Stearns, Mark Vientos, Moment of Silence, Roberto Clemente I looked at Jon Matlack from a Promenade’s distance on Saturday and thought of the Jon Matlack game I inevitably think of when I think of Jon Matlack: the 1-0 loss to Chicago on the final Sunday in 1973, emblematic of tough luck among very good Mets pitchers and a reminder that a 1-0 loss, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Stearns, Jon Matlack, Old Timers Day, Steve Dillon, Thrills I’ll take two wins in three games, even if the price is one loss in the middle. Not that that’s how series of baseball games work, exactly, but that is how the Mets-Braves to-do went down. We won Monday. They won Tuesday. We won Wednesday. That’s math as good as it gets when you don’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Harrelson, Chris Bassitt, Dom Smith, Dreams, Drew Smith, Droughts, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, John Stearns, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Series Win, Team History, Tommy Hunter On the last day of Eastern Standard Time in the spring of 2020, I found myself in a Wendy’s. It was a throwback visit of sorts. I hadn’t been in this Wendy’s or any Wendy’s since early in 2012. The Giants were finishing beating up the Falcons in the first playoff game ever hosted at […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Bait & Switch, Fast Food, Frank Viola, George Foster, John Franco, John Stearns, Long Memories, Long Waits, Proustian Burgers, The National Anticipation traditionally accompanies our team’s first game out of the All-Star break. We haven’t had a real game to watch in five days, so naturally we’re famished for Mets. On top of the yen for baseball was a hankering for an explanation by the highest-ranking official available to give us one. Brodie Van Wagenen, we […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Caleb Smith, Catchers Stealing, Dwight Gooden, Jason Vargas, John Stearns, Jorge Alfaro, Keith Hernandez, Pickoff Attempts, Second Half I have the data to refute this, but every Mets game I’ve ever been to seems to have ended with the Mets trailing in the ninth, getting the tying and/or winning runs on base or at least to the plate, and losing anyway. The data says that’s […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frustration, Futility, Hope, John Stearns, Stubborn Perception Hey now and forever, Michael Conforto, you’re an All-Star, no matter how your league got its game on, no matter that there was a decent case to be made for at least two other players from your team getting your spot. But never mind that Jacob deGrom was the most stellar Met of the first […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, All-Star Team, All-Stars, Bobby Bonilla, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Beltran, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Duke Snider, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, Jerry Koosman, Joel Youngblood, John Stearns, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Lance Johnson, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Who've Won All-Star Games, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Ron Hunt, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays People ask me what I do during the All-Star break when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for Friday night at 10. The Mets finished beating the Marlins, 9-1, at approximately 4:30 Sunday afternoon. Remember that? It was so long ago, I can understand if you […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Danny Heep, Ed Randall, Elaine Stritch, Forced Baseball-less Vacation, George Will, John Stearns, Jon Niese, LIRR, New York Giants, Pepe Mangual, Presidents, Rogers Hornsby, The Simpsons, Tony Gwynn, Tyler Yates |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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