When the word “designated” enters the clubhouse conversation, ballplayers must get a little glum. If you’re told you’re a designated hitter, it means your glove is deemed superfluous. If you’re told you’re designated for assignment, it means the entirety of you is deemed superfluous. Until somebody declares different, the NL reverts to a DH-free zone […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Albert Almora Jr., Ali Sanchez, Bill Withers, Brad Brach, Corey Oswalt, Designated for Assignment, Guillermo Heredia, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee Welcome to the fourth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Chen, Damion Easley, Darren Oliver, Gary Sheffield, Jason Phillips, Kaz Matsui, Lastings Milledge, Mets of the 2000s, Pat Mahomes, Ramon Castro, Vance Wilson Welcome to the third chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bubba Trammell, Dae-Sung Koo, Jae Seo, Jeff Francoeur, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Jacobs, Richard Hidalgo, Ryan Church, Shawn Green, Victor Diaz The Friday bulletin that the Mets were signing Taijuan Walker brought me back to something Roger Angell wrote forty years ago. Anybody who puts me in mind of something Roger Angell wrote anytime is all right by me. This particular Angell observation came from the summer of 1981, during the baseball strike, and lives on in […] Welcome to the second chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be…and the decade future former […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Stokes, Carlos Gomez, Esix Snead, Fernando Tatis, Kris Benson, Luis Ayala, Mark Guthrie, Mets of the 2000s, Mo Vaughn, Nick Evans, Omir Santos Welcome to the first chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anderson Hernandez, Cory Sullivan, David Cone, Eric Valent, Fernando Nieve, Luis Castillo, Mets of the 2000s, Nelson Figueroa, Roberto Alomar, Robinson Cancel, Shawn Estes Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of Faith and Fear in Flushing, which puts our start date at February 16, 2005, which isn’t exactly news. It was news to Jason and me sixteen years ago today, but the outer world of Mets fans who liked to read wouldn’t instantaneously discover us. That took […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Internal Affairs, Mets of the 2000s When Joey Lucchesi, acquired from the Padres on January 19, Inauguration Eve, makes his first appearance as a Met, he will become the first Met to go by Joey. That’s a legitimate choice. Just ask Joey Votto, Joey Bishop or David Geddes, who took “Run Joey Run” to No. 4 in 1975. Just ask Joe […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Joe Biden, Joe Christopher, Joe Crawford, Joe DePastino, Joe Foy, Joe Ginsberg, Joe Grzenda, Joe Hicks, Joe Hietpas, Joe McEwing, Joe Moock, Joe Nolan, Joe Orsulak, Joe Panik, Joe Pignatano, Joe Sambito, Joe Smith, Joe Torre, Joe Vitko, Joey Lucchesi, Names, Presidents, Team History, The Pinch-Running Files Recently, as in a day or two before a revised Spring Training schedule embedded with a pod of Marlins, Nationals, Cardinals and Astros was issued and my mood instinctively if temporarily brightened, I was feeling pretty nihilistic about the whole Mets baseball thing. “Can you imagine them trading…?” I asked myself about pretty much every […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Brach, Injuries, Metallica, Nihilism, Relief Pitching, Seth Lugo, Spring Training Boys, gather round. I’ve got something important to say. For those of you who haven’t met me yet, I’m here to show you how to win. Don’t feel bad that you’ve got to hear it from me. Nobody you know was going to tell you. They’re too polite. You haven’t won because of your surroundings. You […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Attitude Adjustment, Droughts, New York Championships |
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