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 […]
 
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. |
 40 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Charles Prince, Cubs, Fathers and Sons, Rashomon 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 Brandon Nimmo is more than just happy to be here, but make no mistake: he’s happy to be here. Look at the smile that accompanied him around the bases after he bopped the first home run of his career, the one that elevated the Mets to a 7-1 lead en route to a soggy 10-2 […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Gary Rajsich, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, James Loney, Rain Delays, Seth Lugo, Smile, The Simpsons, Yoenis Cespedes Yep, this was all too typical of recent Mets games: in the seventh, the second baseman had a runner dead to rights at third, and hit the third baseman’s glove, only to see the ball bound away and skitter up the third-base line to bring the enemy go-ahead run home. It wasn’t over — they fought back […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Comebacks, Cubs, Home Runs, Jeurys Familia, Mo Vaughn, Steven Matz, Yoenis Cespedes There’s been a breach of security. A Chicago Cub has seen our northern suburbs. Talk about intelligence falling into the wrong hands. Ben Zobrist was made intimately acquainted with the leafy cul-de-sacs of Westchester and Fairfield counties by the management and ownership of the New York Mets. This is as bad as the Russian ambassador seeing […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Zobrist, Connecticut, Cubs, Don Zimmer, Dr. Strangelove, Free Agents, Joe Maddon, Lingering Bitterness Over Losing the World Series, Never Mets, Starlin Castro, Westchester The Mets have used a simple formula to get past the Dodgers and 3/4 of the way past the Cubs: Combine great starting pitching with a shutdown ninth inning. It’s worked pretty well … but the Mets are adding ingredients to the recipe. We’ll get back to the latest legends of Murphtober and […] 45 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Cubs, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, Wrigley Field, Yoenis Cespedes The physicist Leonard Mlodinow has something to say about baseball narratives. This is from The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (via this Freaknonomics post): …if one team is good enough to warrant beating another in 55% of its games, the weaker team will nevertheless win a seven-game series about four times out of 10. And […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Juan Lagares, Kyle Schwarber, Matt Harvey, Travis d'Arnaud Last year the Mets looked kind of OK in the early going. On May 26 they lost a horrific 5-3 game to the Pirates, dropping their record to 22-28, but then won six of their next seven, including three of four in Philadelphia, lifting their record to 28-29. So they rolled into Chicago to take […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Cubs, Matt Harvey, Wrigley Field For 90 seconds or so, there was joy in Metville. We’d punished the Cubs for removing Jake Arrieta, whose curveball had jelly-legged Met knees and kicked out Met fannies and turned Met bats into fan blades throughout another insanely beautiful August afternoon. We’d reminded ourselves that we do too like Curtis Granderson, who broke a seemingly centuries-long […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Jake Arrieta, Joan Payson, Matt Szczur, Rafael Montero The Mets are chocolate and the Cubs are peanut butter: We’ve got a surplus of young pitching and not enough bats; they’ve got a surplus of young bats and not enough pitching. So plenty of baseball matchmakers want to know what, exactly, is taking so long: Send some prospects from Column Mets west while some prospects […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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