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 When Pitchers & Catchers™ report to Port St. Lucie, the pitchers will outnumber the catchers, as the pitchers outnumber everybody in camp and all players by craft. Each game begins with one man at every position and each position tends to remain manned by that same fellow from the first inning to the last — […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, Bill Almon, Bill Buckner, Bill Caudill, Brooks Raley, Bruce Sutter, Darren O'Day, David Robertson, Dick Tidrow, Ed Lynch, Elieser Hernandez, Extra Innings, Gaylord Perry, Jeff Brigham, Jeff Reardon, Jim Tracy, Joe Smith, John Curtiss, Justin Turner, Lee Smith, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Losing Streaks, Mario Ramirez, Mike O’Berry, Mike Scott, Neil Allen, Oliver Perez, Relief Pitching, Roy Lee Jackson, Sam Coonrod, Stephen Ridings, Team History, Tom Hausman, Willie Hernandez, Zach Greene, Zack Britton Hey old friends One day chums New friends pour 1. Noah Syndergaard Juan Lagares 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Amed Rosario, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Khalil Lee, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Old Friends, Oliver Perez, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Three paces that would be nice to keep up: 1) If the Mets go 7-3 fifteen more times (105-45) and they’ll be 112-48 with two games to go — and I probably won’t sweat the final two games too much. 2) If Pete Alonso matches his career total of 109 home runs six more times (654), he’ll […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aggressiveness, At This Pace, Buck Showalter, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Pete Alonso, The Buck Rule, Trevor Williams, Wind Armwise, I’m a righty who hails from a family of natural-born lefties. Sis is sinister by nature. So was Mom. Dad trended to the left side as a youngster, but this horrified his grandmother and he was converted to righthandedness before he was old enough to effectively protest. He lived 87½ years with the illegible […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, Bill Short, Doug Sisk, Joe Smith, Lefties, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Mike Montgomery, Moment of Silence, No Homers Club, Oliver Perez, Ralph Terry, Shea Stadium, Team History, Tim McGraw, Tug McGraw With so many roster transactions involving current Mets — including three more planned tonight to facilitate the deinjuring of a trio of heretofore injured Mets — we can be forgiven for not having taken note of every up and down involving former Mets. Yet we can’t let this AL Central subtraction from April 28 get […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, Darren O'Day, Joe Smith, Justin Turner, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Shea Stadium, Team History Welcome to the seventh 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 […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, Derek Bell, Francisco Rodriguez, John Maine, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Cameron, Oliver Perez, Orlando Hernandez, Todd Pratt, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Xavier Nady Late spring is the time to see Gil Hodges work. Not summer. Then heat sits on the cylinder of Shea Stadium and a baseball season, like New York summer, grinds down strong men. Citi Field is entering its twelfth season. Children no longer eligible for whatever discounts being under twelve gets […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Anniversaries, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carlos Gomez, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Football, Gil Coan, Internal Affairs, Joe Smith, Luke Gasparre, Matt Adams, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Oliver Perez, Patrick Mahomes, Paul McCartney, Retirements, Roger Kahn, Shea Stadium, Time, Tony Fernandez When the 2019 Mets look up “quit” in the dictionary, you know whose picture they see? It’s a trick question, because not only don’t they know the meaning of the word “quit,” it’s never occurred to them to investigate further. They’d been telling us for months that this is how they operate. “This team doesn’t quit.” […] Your East Coast Based Late Night West Coast Correspondent is an unreliable narrator regarding the bulk of Friday night’s Mets-Padres affair, at least from approximately the top of the second to sometime in the bottom of the sixth, for YECBLNWCC indulged in a 75% nap. I had […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Eric Hosmer, Gray Areas, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Oliver Perez, Padres, Sleep, Tug McGraw, West Coast Trips |
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