I got a huge kick out of leafing through the 1967 Mets Yearbook years after it was published and finding that even then Ed Kranepool, a mere 24 yet the only Met left from the Mets’ first year of 1962, was referred to as “The Dean” of the Mets in terms of continuous service with […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Jackson, Bob Moorhead, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Cannizzaro, Continuity, Darryl Strawberry, David Robertson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Frank Thomas, Hubie Brooks, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, John Franco, Jose Quintana, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Justin Verlander, Longevity, Mad Men, Mets Once Removed, Mike Piazza, Mookie Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Seniority, Steve Cohen, Steve Trachsel, Team History, The Dean, Wally Backman According to mathematics from whichever grade I learned percentages, three is fifty percent greater than two. According to how I felt waking up this morning to the knowledge the Mets would have a Game Three in the Wild Card Series versus how I felt yesterday morning when Game Two loomed as the conclusion to our […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Adam Ottavino, Basketball, Continuity, Edwin Diaz, Fatalism, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fan Philosophy, PitchCom, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido It would be out of character for me to not cheerlead the return of Jose Reyes to the New York Mets for his twelfth non-consecutive season in orange and blue, so RAH-RAH, I say, that Reyes is back without having gone anywhere. If I could grandfather in the four seasons he was elsewhere (and fully excise from […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Continuity, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Ty Kelly, Warren Spahn |
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