The season is lost. The Mets are lost. We as Mets fans are lost. A dark forest surrounds us. It is wilderness out there.
Who’s going to lead us somewhere worth going? Judging by Wednesday afternoon’s
 
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. |
 23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  An Appreciation, Jay Bruce, Rafael Montero, Ryder Ryan, Trades It hit me one March day, when they were apart, how long they’d been together. Yadier Molina was captaining Puerto Rico to the finals of the WBC. Adam Wainwright was working out his kinks against the Mets on the East Coast of Florida. Soon enough, they’d reunite, accomplished battery, same team, another year. Two baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Adam Wainwright, An Appreciation, Billy Joel, Cardinals, Longevity, Yadier Molina, Zack Wheeler Don’t remind Ray Ramirez that Curtis Granderson is still out there, still playing, still hitting, still in one piece. Ramirez, or our conception of Ramirez as grim reaper of Met body parts, eventually gets everybody. He doesn’t get Granderson, though. Three-and-a-half years into a four-year contract, Grandy stands on two feet that he puts one […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Curtis Granderson, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Mets-Fan Compulsiveness, Milestones, Steven Matz, Team History, The West Wing When Dallas Green died, an AP photo of him from his Mets managing days circulated alongside obituaries and other remembrances. It was from the beginning of his final Spring Training running the club, taken in his office in Port St. Lucie. Dallas was in what baseball people call street clothes, but with a Mets windbreaker […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Mets Managers, Milestones, Terry Collins It was only natural that Jimmy Breslin addressed the Mets’ status at the top of the heap in 1986. Breslin covered the Mets in 1962, when they concluded their affairs eighty games from breaking even. They buried themselves so deeply beneath .500, they’re still trying to dig out in the cumulative sense. Chances are they […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, An Appreciation, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Jimmy Breslin, Moment of Silence The Cubs and my father are enmeshed in my oft-told Mets fan origin story. It was my dad who’d bring home the Post — when it was an afternoon paper — that featured the recurring cartoon that I credit for sucking me into the ongoing storyline of the 1969 season: the Mets duck doing battle […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Charles Prince, Cubs, Fathers and Sons, Rashomon When the Mets’ lineup was first posted in the late afternoon, I stared at it blankly. It might as well have been nine total strangers. I knew they were they players on my team, I knew I had waited for my team to begin playing again, I just didn’t feel any connection to their identities. When […] I long ago worked with a CFO who was fond of quoting the late Everett Dirksen: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking you’re talking about real money — so cut down on the paper clips.” The paper clips part may have been our CFO’s coda, but you could hear the longtime […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Chris Woodward, Drake LaRoche, Eric Campbell, Everett Dirksen, Joe McEwing, Matt Reynolds, Money, Ruben Tejada The return address on the manila envelope was Citi Field. The postmark was Flushing. The stationery featured a Mets logo. The second word handwritten in looping cursive on the single page enclosed was “Thanks” — so was the second-to-last word. There weren’t many words in between. There didn’t need to be. On December 14, 2011, Shannon […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Shannon Forde Second base, like the beverage-branded seating section that overlooks it at Citi Field, has a new occupant. Neil Walker, unlike Ben Zobrist, turns out to be the real thing. The former Pirate did not get a tour of our leafy suburbs. The Mets don’t care where he lives as long as he shows up for work […] |
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