There really are Mazzys. They look nothing like their namesake Lee Mazzilli, but who besides Lee Mazzilli ever did? I won my third consecutive Mazzy for writing about the Mets Saturday night. The first two were notes in blog posts, which was plenty nice as it was. The third was handed to me like it […]
 
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 |  Blogging, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Fans, Mets Police, Winter We’re into the mid-’90s, and the makeover of The Holy Books … well, it’s dragging a bit. I’ll sum up the problem with a string of numbers: 45, 22, 19, 20, 17, 35, 8, 9, 10, 8, 13, 13, 9, 17, 9, 14, 16, 14, 13, 15, 13, 12, 15, 12, 10, 13, 4, 14, 20, […] Greg has always appreciated The Holy Books — my three binders of baseball cards, with each Met represented by a single card organized by the year of their Mets debut — while making simultaneously gentle and pointed inquiries about their administration. His biggest objection? It’s been that The Holy Books are organized alphabetically within each […] At 3:59 PM EST this afternoon, New York Mets baseball will step outside, see its own shadow and scurry back indoors for what will seem like another couple of centuries of winter, but fret not. It will be at that very moment that we have reached the Baseball Equinox, that juncture on the Spherical Horsehide Calendar […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Baseball Equinox, Giancarlo Stanton It appears they let anybody turn 50 years old today. Even me. As Sid Fernandez, Benny Agbayani, Rick Trlicek and a handful of others who — Trlicek-style — avoided distinguishing it could confirm, 50’s a number, just like any other number. Yet when you reach a number that’s considered enough of a milestone to rate commemorative-patch […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aging, Benny Agbayani, Birthdays, Cheap Plays on Collin McHugh's Name, Collin McHugh, Rick Trlicek, Sid Fernandez Just got out of HR. I was doing my exit interview with my forties. It was required as I’m leaving age 49 and starting my new position, in my fifties, at midnight. HR asked me what I did with my forties, which officially began on December 31, 2002 and end tonight at 11:59 PM. I said […] If four things don’t go exactly right Sunday, a team called the Giants will be done being defending champions. I’ll be sorry if/when they are eliminated from playoff contention, though mostly because a Super Bowl run is a great way to kill time en route to Spring Training. But while the halo above the New […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Football, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Odd Man Out Contrary to the tiresome claims every modern-day sportswriter makes about rooting for stories over teams and having no rooting interest otherwise, Oscar Madison of the New York Herald clearly had a favorite ballclub. If he didn’t wear his heart on his sleeve or in his widely read columns, his allegiance was evident on his head. […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Jack Klugman, Mets Pop Culture, Moment of Silence, Oscar's Cap Awards, The Odd Couple Ike Davis…he was at that Mets holiday party a couple of weeks ago, too. His attendance got kind of lost in the shuffle given the kerfuffle that was kicked up by the remarks of his (now erstwhile) teammate, but Ike’s presence at Citi Field on December 11 was both comforting and intriguing for several reasons. First […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Babylon, Camp Simcha, Ike Davis, John Franco, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Long Island, Mets Holiday Party, New York Cuban Giants, Robert Moses 1. “And at Christmas, you tell the truth,” or so I heard it said in Love, Actually. 2. But I’m still seeking the truth in the trade that has left us Dickeyless in New York City. 3. Is it true somehow that sending away our singular Cy Young recipient was the brilliant Aldersonian chess move for which we’ve […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Stearns, R.A. Dickey, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud |
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