So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books This season, however it turns out, whether it turns out, will probably be remembered for other storylines, but churning beneath the surface of Mets Baseball 2020 is the churn itself. Have you noticed just how many players we’re going through a mere sixteen games in? When last season ended, the all-time Met count was up […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alternate Site, Andres Gimenez, Bill Sudakis, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Formal Introductions, Franklyn Kilome, Hunter Strickland, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Jimmie Schaffer, Lenny Harris, Met Debuts, Michael Conforto, Michael Wacha, Milestone Mets, Moises Alou, Pete Smith, Phil Mankowski, Randy Milligan, Rey Sanchez, Rick Porcello, Ryan Cordell, Scott Hairston, Team History, The Twilight Zone, Tyler Bashlor It didn’t fully hit me what a void we’re staring into until early Friday morning when I went through my weekly ritual of checking the forthcoming C-Span2 (Book TV) and C-Span3 (American History TV) listings to record any programming I might find worthwhile, choosing among classroom lectures, author discussions, unearthed newsreels…yes, my weekends do rock. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Adonis Uceta, Basketball, Chasms, Edgardo Fermin, Eduardo Nunez, Jake Hager, Jarrett Parker, Joe Zanghi, Johneshwy Fargas, Ryley Gilliam, Spring Training, Unforeseen Interruptions, Voids I mean, what else could you call it? The Mets’ most lovable misfit toy, who’s 25 years old chronologically but about 700 in Mets-drama years, was repeatedly front and center in this one … in good ways and bad. Wilmer Flores collected three hits, all off the righties he’s not supposed to hit, the last of which […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eduardo Nunez, Jeurys Familia, Justin Ruggiano, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores We don’t much like to admit it, but during Joe Torre’s long, successful tenure as the Yankees’ manager, most of us developed a deep respect for him. He was calm amid the typical Yankee typhoons of drama, deflected nonsense from his players consistently and gracefully, and rarely let the media hype around a moment change […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Derek Jeter, Eduardo Nunez, Hatred, Jerry Layne, Joe Girardi, Yankees |
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