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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. |
I met one of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT on the street last night. It seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. And we talked about some old times, and we drank ourselves some beers. Still Metsie after all these years. Actually, that’s Paul Simon’s version of events. Here’s […] Before he became my blogging partner of twenty Springs and counting, Jason used to torture me with a hypothetical. What if I could guarantee the Mets a world championship by not seeing or hearing any of the season that made them world champions? As we batted this devil’s bargain around between pitches, I searched for […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1984 Mets, Bernie Taupin, Change, Davey Johnson, Distance, Dwight Gooden, Elton John, Kelvin Chapman, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons We have reached a stop on the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT journey that can’t be appreciated fully if you forget to pack nuance. This season wouldn’t rate as highly as it does with me if there wasn’t more to it than its unfortunate ending. It would likely rate a […] Spring Training was humming along. Players showed up and pledged to maintain or adjust their career arcs, whichever would help the team most. Prospects were going to make an impression. Youth was going to gain experience. Veterans were already setting examples. The previously ailing were feeling never better. Thievable relievers were working on their pickoff […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Kodai Senga, No News Is Good News, Spring Training, Spring Training Injuries Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of Faith and Fear in Flushing, founded February 16, 2005. For the now twenty Spring Trainings that this blog has existed, we have set out annually in the sincere hope that the Met season ahead serves as prelude to a Met postseason. That’s really all you can ask of a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Anniversaries, Asdrubal Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Humility, Internal Affairs, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Postseason Acknowledgment, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Stripes, T.J. Rivera, That Thing You Do, Yoenis Cespedes The studio has a few notes on the next installment of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. ***19. 1998 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, Al Leiter, Bobby Valentine, Carlos Baerga, Dennis Cook, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hideo Nomo, John Franco, John Olerud, Masato Yoshii, Mike Piazza, Mustaches, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Notes, Rey Ordonez, Rick Reed, Steve Phillips, Todd Hundley, Turk Wendell Just in time for Pitchers & Catchers, we have broken into the Top 20 portion of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. The focus of this entry is neither a pitcher nor a catcher, but he does happen to be somebody who will be reporting to Port St. Lucie in the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Brodie Van Wagenen, Carlos Beltran, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Home Runs, Hubris, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Pete Alonso, Todd Frazier, Todd Hundley En route from the bottom 60% of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT — Nos. 55–44 here; Nos. 43–34 here; Nos. 33–23 here — to the just plain Top 20 (expressed without a percentage sign because they are, in fact, Nos. 20–1), I need to make a stop in consecutive years […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 1994 Strike, 1995 Mets, Bill Pulsipher, Bobby Bonilla, David Segui, Dwight Gooden, Jason Isringhausen, Jose Vizcaino, Kevin McReynolds, Marlins, Mood Rings, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Patches, Rico Brogna, Turnarounds, Uniforms, World Series, Youth “Yeah!” I can’t quote exactly, but the words above were more or less my reactions to immortality stamping its approval on the permanent records of Met icons and elevating them to the highest level visible to the general baseball public. We already knew our guys — Tom Seaver, before posting the magic 98.84% no other starting […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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