 
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. |
Jeff McNeil lay face down in the Arizona turf, the last out of a 6-5 Mets win safely in his glove. He wasn’t hurt; he just needed a minute. At that point, we all did. The Mets moved to 11-4 on the season, which I will use bleeding-edge analytics to categorize as pretty damn good. But it […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Armando Benitez, Braden Looper, Christian Walker, Closers, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, John Franco, Late Night West Coast Games, Matt Davidson, Pete Alonso, Randy Myers, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Tug McGraw, Zac Gallen 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 Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Keep on searching now As baseball’s Winter Meetings approached in 1974, the Mets’ new general manager, Joe McDonald, drew some attention when he told […] Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Hark ye yet again—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Al Schmelz, Alaska Goldpanners, Andy Messersmith, Baseball Cards, Bill Denehy, Bing Devine, Danny Frisella, Don Cardwell, Gil Hodges, Jerry Hinsley, Julian Javier, Keith Olbermann, Ken Boyer, Pitchers, The Holy Books, Tim McCarver, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Wes Westrum 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 new Metropolitan standard of excellence by way of archaic statistics is Five Wins and Six Losses. That’s right, 5-6. Never mind the likes of 25-7, 19-10, 22-9, 24-4 or 20-6. Move over, Messrs. Seaver (those first three), Gooden and Dickey. You were Amazin’ in your respective […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 5-6 Pitchers, Carlos Torres, Charlie Williams, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Kobel, Pedro Martinez, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tug McGraw 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 As the Mets were getting underway Friday night in Flushing, I was situated well north of Citi Field, holding down half of a table at the Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing in Connecticut, a fundraiser for the grand old Hotchkiss Library, founded 124 years ago next month. The other half of the table was occupied […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, Connecticut, Dodgers, Excellent Addition to Your Canoeing Library, Hotchkiss Library, Justin Turner, Rich Hill, Sandy Koufax, Seth Lugo, Tug McGraw 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 I no longer remember the exact circumstances, but years ago there was a newspaper story featuring a Yankee fan who didn’t understand why any franchise would adopt “Ya Gotta Believe” (or one of its non-spontaneous, corporate-approved descendants) as a rallying cry. Terrible slogan, she snorted dismissively: “Believe? That’s lame. We know.” That always struck me as a perfect way to describe the two New York fanbases, because strip […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fans, Hope, Lucas Duda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Tug McGraw |
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