It’s mid-March. Spring Training is entrenched until it’s not. Games that don’t matter are the norm until they’re not. If a game is accessible on TV, great. If it’s not, well, it’d be cooler if it was, but, really, no biggie. Players of whom you’d barely heard a month ago are your constants until they […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1975 Mets, Jesus Alou, Moment of Silence, Roster Projection Follies, Spring Training PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (FAF) — The mind of veteran blogger Greg Prince reported to New York Mets camp Monday to prepare for its nineteenth season of observation, reflection and regular blogging output. It showed up just in time to meet the deadline for position players to check in at the East Coast complex that […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Basketball, Football, Internal Affairs, Spring Training, The Twilight Zone Hi again, Chasen Shreve — and you, too, Matt Reynolds and Johneshwy Fargas. The Mets decided to solve their lefthanded bullpen void by rewinding to 2020 and snatching up the perfectly capable Shreve, who by coming back after a season in Pittsburgh gets the chance to break free of his Silent Generation designation. May the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brad Hand, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Good Health, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Matt Reynolds, NL East Four-Timers Club, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Safety, Schedules, Spring Training, Travis Jankowski Counterfactually, the Mets are in West Palm Beach today playing the Nationals. It’s not much of a counterfactual to the reality we live in to conclude the Mets would be busy training their spring away a little south of St. Lucie given that the Mets sent out a preliminary Spring Training schedule last August marking […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Lockout, Rob Manfred, Routine, Shrug, Spring Training This is a nominally festive occasion. Faith and Fear in Flushing turns 17 today. The team we cover recognized this milestone by announcing they will retire No. 17 this season and reinstate Old Timers Day so the authors of this blog will feel right at home. All that the Mets and their MLB franchise brethren need […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Anniversaries, Bobbleheads, Don McLean, February, Gerald Williams, Internal Affairs, Lockout, Matt Harvey, Moment of Silence, Old Timers Day, Spring Training On March 11, 2020, as the world was grinding to a halt, I tuned in for the final minutes of the Knicks and Hawks on MSG, essentially the last game in town. I sucked up every remaining bounce of the basketball, understanding that there was about to be no more action of its kind televised […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Fans, Hockey, Normality, Spring Training, USF Bulls “Sure we’ll be better. How in hell could we be worse?” As Spring Training prognostications coming off losing seasons go, no Met ever nailed it any better than Roger Craig did in 1963. Following a grand total of 40 wins in 1962, a pledge to not make that inaugural year look good by comparison was all […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2021 Mets, Happy Horsespit, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Roger Craig, Spring Training Recently, as in a day or two before a revised Spring Training schedule embedded with a pod of Marlins, Nationals, Cardinals and Astros was issued and my mood instinctively if temporarily brightened, I was feeling pretty nihilistic about the whole Mets baseball thing. “Can you imagine them trading…?” I asked myself about pretty much every […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Brach, Injuries, Metallica, Nihilism, Relief Pitching, Seth Lugo, Spring Training Are you ready for some baseball? Well, are ya? Let’s cross our fingers and hope baseball is ready for itself. Baseball can declare all the intentions it wants. It still has to check in with the coronavirus pretty regularly to make sure it gets to proceed as it intends. Until we find out otherwise, it is on. Baseball, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Poxes, Second Chances, Spring Training, Unusual Circumstances It didn’t fully hit me what a void we’re staring into until early Friday morning when I went through my weekly ritual of checking the forthcoming C-Span2 (Book TV) and C-Span3 (American History TV) listings to record any programming I might find worthwhile, choosing among classroom lectures, author discussions, unearthed newsreels…yes, my weekends do rock. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Adonis Uceta, Basketball, Chasms, Edgardo Fermin, Eduardo Nunez, Jake Hager, Jarrett Parker, Joe Zanghi, Johneshwy Fargas, Ryley Gilliam, Spring Training, Unforeseen Interruptions, Voids |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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