I had come around on Robinson Cano in 2020, a man we learned Wednesday won’t be a Met in 2021. I had come to not automatically grimace at the sight or thought of him in a Mets uniform. I even got over my distaste for No. 24 being taken out of informal retirement on his […]
 
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. |
Every November 17, I think, “It’s Tom Seaver’s birthday.” I’m thinking it again. Tom Seaver would have been 76 today. What a heartbreaking sentence to write. November 17, 1944, was the first baseball birthday I learned. I’m pretty sure I plucked it off the back of one of Tom’s baseball’s cards, presumably his 1971 Topps, since […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Moment of Silence, Newspapers, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday 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. I’ve been alive forever Jeurys Familia (2012-2018, 2019- ) won’t still be relieving for the Mets in 2029. Jacob deGrom (2014- ) won’t still be […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Barry Manilow, Ed Kranepool, Goodfellas, Mets Hall of Fame Steve Cohen further casually introduced himself to us Tuesday afternoon, after tweeting back and forth among us on and off for a week. We’d definitely like to hang out in his company some more. The new owner of the New York Mets, decidedly not the old owner of the New York Mets, took to Zoom to […] If following the beginnings of more than one transition at a time is too overwhelming to contemplate, a quick note to keep you updated: Steve Cohen now owns the New York Mets, lock, stock and Brad Brach. The deal we anticipated for a nearly a year and celebrated for a week — and the addition […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Guttridge, Allard Baird, Brodie Van Wagenen, Jarred Banner, Omar Minaya, Sandy Alderson, Steve Cohen, Transitions 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. Not every man’s a talker, John. On August 13, 1997, Comedy Central debuted a new animated series called South Park. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1999 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, John Olerud, Pippin, South Park, The Sopranos 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. I can’t keep looking back at the past, and I have nothing inside of here that is the future. 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Ownership, Steve Cohen In the final World Series baseball played in the (reportedly) pre-Steve Cohen era of (potential) Metsian salvation, the pitcher who shouldn’t have been removed from the mound came out too soon; the player who had to be removed from the field came back against sound judgment; and the championship tournament appended to a season that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Postseason, Blake Snell, Brett Phillips, Dodgers, Hill Street Blues, Justin Turner, Kevin Cash, Pandemics, Randy Arozarena, Rays, World Series, World Series Ending 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. I’m solid gold In 1989’s Field of Dreams, the fresh-faced kid Ray Kinsella and Terence Mann picked up hitchhiking seemed to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Field Of Dreams, Lee Mazzilli, The Simpsons They were 89 moments in the sun, 89 moments under the spotlight, 89 days and nights of our lives when little else mattered to us. I mean more than usual. “The Mets go melodramatic in October,” Roger Angell once wrote. “It’s in their genes.” Here we inspect the DNA and report the findings. Here we do […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, Mets Postseason Games, Team History |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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