Prescience wasn’t required to sense it might happen and obliviousness didn’t necessarily obscure your senses if you were reveling in what was going on before it happened. I was between the top and the bottom of the ninth inning of the final game contested within Pool D of the World Baseball Classic, Puerto Rico playing […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Coven, Edwin Diaz, Injuries, Patellar Tendons, WBC 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 […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Jesus Alou, Moment of Silence, Roster Projection Follies, Spring Training As we dim the lights and illuminate our memories, we ask you to direct your attention to the video board for a very special presentation as we unspool our annual montage saluting the Mets who have left us — in the baseball sense — since last Spring. ___ CARLOS JAVIER CORREA Your team’s owner goes […] I was looking forward to watching Jose Quintana pitch early this season, much as I looked forward to watching Shaun Marcum pitch early in 2013 and Carlos Carrasco pitch early in 2021, to name two offseason pickups who were waylaid en route to their Met debuts by Spring Training injuries. Quintana has a small stress […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Jason Bay, Jose Quintana, Lost Boys Found, Rotation Depth, Shaun Marcum, Spring Training Injuries, Team History 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 We look forward to the ballgame, though we would have done that without Tim McCarver’s help. Well, I shouldn’t speak for everybody. There’s a generation of Mets fans who were welcomed to Mets baseball by Tim McCarver the way I was welcomed to Mets baseball by Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson on radio […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Libraries and Museums, Moment of Silence, Tim McCarver 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 It is the late winter of Tommy Pham, described far and wide as a fourth outfielder when the Mets signed him for the upcoming season. Unnerving spate of rules changes aside, the outfield still contains only three positions. Nobody is every described as a fifth infielder. And second catchers are usually referred to as backup […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Movies, Carlos Beltran, Darin Ruf, Howie Rose, Jeff McNeil, Keith Raad, Late Winter, Matt Allan, Pat McCarthy, T-shirts, Tommy Pham, Wayne Randazzo It’s an article of faith among people who critique sports media that, ultimately, fans don’t tune into games because of the announcers. That appraisal may track with ratings but it doesn’t reflect enthusiasm. I’ve been tuning into Mets baseball in one form or another with glee in my remote-clicking and button-pushing fingers for more than […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Gary Cohen, Howard Johnson, Howie Rose, Jay Horwitz, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History “You’ll never get me to downgrade the Mets. They’re not the only last-place team I ever played for. The fans here are hard to beat. When I was in the hospital this season, I got 600 to 700 letters and cards. You can’t beat that.” When he debuted as a major leaguer, starting in […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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