We have reached the third installment of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. I can’t swear it’s the middle installment, but below you’ll find the middle portion of the list: the seasons just before the median (Nos. 33-29); the median season (No. 28); and the seasons just beyond the median (Nos. […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1972 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1978 Mets, 1981 Mets, 1981 Strike, 1983 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2014 Mets, A Clockwork Orange, Brian Jordan, Change, Daily News, Jack Lang, John Mellencamp, M. Donald Grant, Mardie Cornejo, Mets Yearbook, Mike Piazza, Muse, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Shea Stadium, Sinus Headaches, Streaks, The Years After, Tom Seaver, Unresolved Mother Issues Welcome to the second installment of MY FAVORITE MET SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a continuation of the project I introduced on my birthday. The ten seasons spotlighted below I liked a little more than the dozen I counted down on December 31, not as much as the thirty-three that are still […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1989 Mets, 1991 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, 2021 Mets, Brad Emaus, Danny Frisella, David Aardsma, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Jason Pridie, Jimmy Carter, Jose Reyes, Ken Singleton, Lance Johnson, Leroux, LFO, Lou Grant, Murray Head, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, New Kids On The Block, Rosalynn Carter, Tim Teufel, Todd Hundley, Willie Harris During his entire active tenure as a New York Met between 1965 and 1977, Buddy Harrelson never played a position besides shortstop, yet I find myself today thinking of his versatility. He could be described as the heart of the Mets, the soul of the Mets, the spirit of the Mets. I think I’ll go […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bud Harrelson, Buddy Harrelson, Mets shortstops, Moment of Silence I don’t know how much I will miss Luis Guillorme in practice. His production declined precipitously last season and his defense wasn’t the revelation it once was. Yet Luis’s definitive departure from the only team we have ever known him as a part of — the former Met has signed with the Braves, making him, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, An Appreciation, Harrison Bader, Luis Guillorme, Sean Manaea, Utility Infielders When Oscar Madison, our avatar of Mets in the Popular Culture, is sloppy, dog bites man. When Oscar Madison attempts to be neat, the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves (Shakespeare). In the Odd Couple episode “Cleanliness is Next to Impossible,” Oscar is unwittingly hypnotized to Felix Unger levels of fussiness. Only […] In one of those Faith and Fear traditions known only to me, I like to present a list as long as Eric Hillman’s left arm when my birthday falls on a Sunday. Since we’ve been doing FAFIF, my birthday has fallen on a Sunday twice, in 2006 and 2017. Today is the third time. I’m […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, 1977 Mets, 1979 Mets, 1982 Mets, 1992 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2017 Mets, 2020 Mets, 2023 Mets, Armando Benitez, Birthdays, Bob Hope, Bob Murphy, Daryl Boston, Dave Kingman, Empty, Esix Snead, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, High School Musicals, Jesse Orosco, John Olerud, Jon Matlack, Lenny Randle, McDonald’s, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Peanuts, Richie Hebner, Stephen Jay Gould, Superstripe, Travis d'Arnaud, Turtle Wax, Wristbands I don’t observe Christmas in the ecclesiastical sense, but I’ve watched a lot of Christmas episodes of sitcoms, both live-action and animated, so I understand assisting Santa Claus when asked is necessarily a good thing. Every year around this time, I hear that a reindeer with a nose visible in fog went down in history […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Benny Agbayani, Christmas Eve, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doug Sisk, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Gentry, Mark Bomback, Rick Aguilera, Rico Brogna, Ron Swoboda, Rookie of the Year, Seth Lugo, Team History, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Although baseball has already conducted its winter meetings, winter insists on meeting the rest of us this evening at 10:47 PM Eastern Standard Time. We wish a scintillating solstice to all, yet we’ve got a bigger milestone to mark before the month is out. That’s right: the Baseball Equinox is nigh! At 3:26 AM EST on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Baseball Equinox, Decades, Hump Years, Tyrone Taylor You might know Ken MacKenzie was the only Met pitcher to post a winning record in 1962. As calling-card facts go, it is distinctive and enduring and, within the context of a team that inspired its beat writers to track what Leonard Koppett dubbed the “neggie” or negative statistic (like the Mets’ failure to win […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Ken MacKenzie, Moment of Silence, Winning Pitchers Aren’t we supposed to be immune to developing brand new sympathy pains for injured Mets players in December? Mets players aren’t supposed to get injured this time of year unless it’s something like what happened to Tug McGraw in the winter following the Miracle Mets’ world championship of 1969. In his 1974 memoir Screwball, Tug […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ronny Mauricio, Tug McGraw, Wintertime Injuries |
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