The infrastructure of a baseball season encompasses a surfeit of components that don’t show up in the box score, including intramural dustups in March that dissolve into the murkiest of memories by May. They are as much part of the National Pastime landscape as the crack of the bat, the flight of the ball, the […]
 
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. |
 13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andy Martino, Eric Campbell, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Injuries, Ira Berkow, Matt Harvey, Media Criticism, Spring Training Thanks to the best blog readers in all of Metsdom, the Faith and Fear in Flushing retired numbers t-shirt has been spotted in ballparks all over America and on a couple of continents besides this one since its introduction during the 2006 postseason. But we’d never seen anything like this until now. Not the FAFIF […] Jon Niese must’ve put his glove in front of his pitching arm and stabbed a sizzler of fate, for he has caught a break. He hasn’t caught a debilitating elbow injury at any rate. The presumptive first-game thrower who visits MRI tubes like less wholesome athletes might frequent strip clubs left Sunday’s game with discomfort […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Gil Hodges, Injuries, Jon Niese, Opening Day Starters, Team History, Tom Seaver Late last season I was moved to recall a childhood friend named Evan Radler. We knew each other for one baseball-laden summer and saw each other exactly once more when it was over. He grew up to be a rabbi who died well ahead of his time, two facts I discovered long after they occurred. Somewhere […] Leo Durocher would have relished this weekend in Las Vegas. The Cactus League Cubs — the team he managed to its only oasis of success in a nearly 40-year schlep through a desert of futility, and the Grapefruit Circuit Mets — the team that inevitably turned 1969 into a Near North Side mirage, will square […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Aspirations, Fred Wilpon, Hope, Leo Durocher, Sandy Alderson, Spring Training, The Sopranos One National League East Narrative Reinforcement comin’ right up! While the Braves were doing everything they could on Wednesday to earn their fans’ gratitude, the Mets were finding new, characteristically clumsy ways to show they’re as sorry as any organization can be. Atlanta invested more than $14 million in Ervin Santana, the best available pitcher on the […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Considerateness, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dan Jenkins, Dan Warthen, Ervin Santana, Jeff Cutler, Kris Medlen, Media Criticism, Stu Woo I have a modest proposal: dismantle the spring-training media-entertainment industry. No, really. Because it’s making us all crazy. Spring training exists for two reasons: 1) Pitchers need time to strengthen their arms to do a better job at something profoundly unnatural that will eventually hurt them, possibly in a catastrophic, career-ending way. 2) Towns in Florida and Arizona like […] Not so long ago, three ships passed in the Met night. We probably didn’t grasp the transient nature of what was transpiring right in front of us because we didn’t know their night sharing the same waters would be over so soon. On August 9, 2012, R.A. Dickey threw a complete-game, ten-strikeout five-hitter to defeat the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, PItching, R.A. Dickey, Team History, Zack Wheeler Like the swallows that return to Capistrano every March, Mets fans dependably make the pilgrimage to Port St. Lucie every spring. It’s not so much what they see that spurs them onto southbound flights but what they feel. And what Ryder Chasin felt when he was treated to a longer than expected weekend in the […] Mike Piazza is a special instructor in Mets camp. He is among the most special of all Mets, so the title fits. Nice of him to swing by St. Lucie, just as it was good thinking on Jeff Wilpon’s part to invite him. (We will now take the keyboard on which I’m typing out of play […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Francisco Estrada, Mets Catchers, Mike Piazza, Spring Training |
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