We have reached the third installment of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. I can’t swear it’s the middle installment, but below you’ll find the middle portion of the list: the seasons just before the median (Nos. 33-29); the median season (No. 28); and the seasons just beyond the median (Nos. […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1972 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1978 Mets, 1981 Mets, 1981 Strike, 1983 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2014 Mets, A Clockwork Orange, Brian Jordan, Change, Daily News, Jack Lang, John Mellencamp, M. Donald Grant, Mardie Cornejo, Mets Yearbook, Mike Piazza, Muse, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Shea Stadium, Sinus Headaches, Streaks, The Years After, Tom Seaver, Unresolved Mother Issues Almost everything was great Saturday. Really. The start time, Saturday afternoon at 4:10, was great. As a start time, 4:10 has élan. On any day, 1:10 can be too early, 7:10 too mundane. On a Saturday especially, 4:10 is the sweet spot. You have your day. You have your night. You have your baseball in the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Ace Frehley, Adam Ottavino, Black Cat, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Gabe Kapler, Giants, J.D. Davis, July, Justin Verlander, LIRR, Luis Guillorme, Saturday Afternoons, Tommy Pham With so many roster transactions involving current Mets — including three more planned tonight to facilitate the deinjuring of a trio of heretofore injured Mets — we can be forgiven for not having taken note of every up and down involving former Mets. Yet we can’t let this AL Central subtraction from April 28 get […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, Darren O'Day, Joe Smith, Justin Turner, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Shea Stadium, Team History 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 got the horse right here Psst…over […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Ike Davis, Prospects MLB’s “Summer Camp” has not only been named, it’s been sponsored, by a company called Camping World. Perhaps when the streamlined sixty-game schedule is announced, the reveal can be sponsored by Thom McAn, considering we’re all kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on baseball’s best-laid, half-assed plans. True, they no longer have Thom […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1975 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2020 Mets, 60-Man Pool, Chili Davis, Darryl Strawberry, Gordon Beckham, Hunter Strickland, Jared Hughes, John Pacella, Jon Matlack, Luis Rojas, Melky Cabrera, Ruben Tejada, Summer 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. You’ll never know the pleasure of writing a graceful sentence or having an original thought. I […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, 2012 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Broadcast News, Dana Brand, Football, Literati, Peter Gent, R.A. Dickey, SATs, The Odd Couple How historic is the ongoing fall from grace the Mets will seek to halt this evening versus the Orioles (at 17-41, as ideal an opponent for that sort of task as one could request at this moment)? Consider that the 2018 Mets were ten games above .500 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2018 Mets, Anthony Swarzak, Draft, Falls From Grace, Jarred Kelenic, Simeon Woods-Richardson, Team History, Ten Over, Three Under, Todd Frazier I like to say that all you can reasonably ask for from your team year after year is that they give you hope. To me, that has always implied that you can hope your team will contend in earnest for a postseason berth, and to do that, your team has to win more games than […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2014 Mets, Losing Record, Team History, Winning Welcome to Flashback Friday, a dormant Faith and Fear in Flushing tradition revived this particular Friday in recognition of where we are now and how far we’ve come to get here. If you have been to Citi Field in 2015 and been at your seat just before the home team’s lineup is formally introduced, perhaps you’ve […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Flashback Friday, Memories, Montages Some won-lost records just jump out at me. For example, the Mets losing Sunday and falling to 20-23 sparked my recognition that the Mets hit that very same mark 24 years earlier. In 1990, losing and falling to 20-23 presented a platform for firing the most successful manager in franchise history. After guiding the Mets to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Davey Johnson, Milestones, Records, Team History |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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