I loved watching the great victory today, a shutout for our side, with New York coming through toward the end. I am referring, of course, to my annual viewing of 1776, a film I still find worth watching every Fourth of July, my custom since 1991 and something I hope to do as long as […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1-0 losses, 1776, Adrian Houser, Jake Irvin, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Jose Quintana So far, the highlight of Max Scherzer’s career as a New York Met is he has agreed to a contract of $130 million over three years to be a New York Met. It won’t show up in the main statistical body of Scherzer’s Baseball-Reference entry, but it’s more than a lot of recent Mets have […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2022 Mets, Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Megacontracts, Optimism, Steve Cohen 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 This is just like that other year when the Mets were diddling around for almost four months, then got hot and catapulted themselves into a playoff chase already in progress. Do you remember that other year? You don’t. Because this is a new one on us. You’d think after 58 years, we’d have seen it all, […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Contention, Donnie Hart, Hot Streaks, Injures, Noah Syndergaard, Robinson Cano, Unreality It’s bad enough that Major League Baseball’s schedulemakers have left the Mets idle on this most iconic of summertime dates, but you’d figure they could have at least let them play on the eve of our nation’s 243rd birthday. What’s that? The Mets did play on July 3? Yesterday? Wednesday? Funny, I have no recollection of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1981 Mets, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Subway Series, Un-American Activities Good news: the Mets won in Toronto on the Fourth of July. Better news: my wife and I devoted part of our holiday to watching 1776 together for the twenty-eighth consecutive Independence Day, a tradition that dates back to 7/4/1991, coincidentally another of those infrequent occasions when our American baseball team […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2018 Mets, Amazin' Historical Similarities, Corey Oswalt We still reside on the shadowy side of the Baseball Equinox, that annually anticipated milestone on the calendar that sits precisely between the final pitch of the last Mets season and the first pitch of the next Mets season. This offseason’s midpoint won’t arrive until we have passed 89 days, 9 hours and 25 minutes […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2018 Mets, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Anthony Swarzak, Baseball Equinox, Expectations, Matt Purke, Windows, Zach Borenstein Met pinstripes are magical. Put any player in them and they perform wondrous feats. Players you’d all but forgotten about. Players you’d barely heard of before. Players on whose backs it would not occur to you to pursue a postseason berth. They’re all here, whoever they are, and they’re wearing Mets uniforms in the service […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Gabriel Ynoa, Improvisation, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud It doesn’t take a Richard Henry Lee galloping down to the House of Burgesses and back (stopping off in Stratford long enough to refresh the missus) to deliver a resolution that declares unequivoca-LEE that the four-game series the New York Mets just completed against the Chicago Cubs is and ought to be considered among the […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1981 Mets, 1985 Mets, Cubs, Edgardo Alfonzo, Records, Sweeps, Team History, Wilmer Flores “It is a vital part of American sports that the present is tethered to the past,” Tim Layden recently wrote in Sports Illustrated. As a line of thinking, it’s completely understandable and not necessarily undesirable. If we’re any kind of long-term fans, we root for whom we root because we’ve rooted for whom we’ve rooted. […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Precedent |
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