When Yogi Berra died in 2015, Dave Hillman ascended to the role of Oldest Living Met. Yogi Berra is among the most famous baseball figures of the past 75 years, perhaps ever. People still quote Berra, still invoke Berra, still remember Berra. He’s been gone seven years, but his legacy is likely to live on […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 1990 Mets, Chuck Carr, Dave Hillman, Marlins, Moment of Silence Carlos Carrasco was bad, inexplicable Mets punching bag Pablo Lopez was good, the Marlins were pesky even by their loathsome standards and the Mets lost a game that had a queasy, out-of-sorts feeling to it from the get-go. And yes, down in D.C. the Braves smacked the crap out of the Nats, and so now […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Frustration, Jacob Stallings, James McCann, Jerry Blevins, JJ Bleday, Marlins, Mr. Met, Pablo Lopez, Pete Alonso, Richard Bleier, Ties, Trevor Williams, Weather The Mets, of late, play two kinds of games: ones in which they lose seemingly winnable affairs in horribly frustrating ways and ones in which they beat the absolute tar out of their opponents without breaking too much of a sweat. We’re a third of the way through September, and I’m not sure I can […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Nardi, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Mark Canha, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Pablo Lopez, Pennant Race A funny thing happened midway through the Mets’ laugher of a victory over the Marlins. The Mets were leading 7-1 at the halfway point of the game, having undressed poor Pablo Lopez in Soilmaster Stadium, and every hitter was on point, from Francisco Lindor continuing to beat all available Marlins like a drum to Patrick Mazeika […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | bad, Don Mattingly, Francisco Lindor, Joey Wendle, Marlins, Pablo Lopez, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker Through seven innings Friday night, the Mets-Marlins contest could have gone either way. It’s not unusual that the identities of a given game’s winner and loser are yet to be determined with two regulation innings to go, but this brand of uncertainty gnawed a bit deeper. Lose this game to the Marlins, and it’s a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Afterschool Special, Billy Crystal, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Leon Russell, Marlins, Old Wives’ Tales, Rusty Staub, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Trevor Williams, Tyler Naquin I began Sunday’s finale against the Marlins annoyed about Peacock, which my wife had already forked over $5 for (complete with a calendar reminder to cancel the subscription 25-odd days from now). But Peacock’s broadcast was fine, other than the absence of our home announcers. Jason Benetti handled play by play ably, Tommy Hutton told […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, David Peterson, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Luis Guillorme, Marlins, Nick Fortes, Peacock I hate that the Miami Marlins exist, I doubly hate when the Mets have to play them, and I quadruply hate when the Mets have to play them in their Pachinko parlor-cum-fish tank-cum-mausoleum in south Florida. I looked it up on Baseball Reference, and as I suspected, the Mets are 4-12,429 all time at Soilmaster Stadium […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jon Berti, Luis Guillorme, Marlins, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker After defeating the Marlins on Monday afternoon, the Mets are 24-10 at home and 4-1 in games that end homestands. As if to express their affection for Citi Field at the end of this 5-2 homestand, they touched home six times en route to their 6-0 victory, each time crossing the plate like it meant […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Astros, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Ender Inciarte, Homestands, Jerar Encarnacion, John Paciorek, Juan Lagares, Marlins, Mets Once Removed, Mike Birkbeck, P.J. Conlon, Pedro Feliciano, Road Trips, Seinfeld, Team History, Terry Leach, Tommy Hunter, Willie Harris “Could you describe the assailant, please?” “OK, so the assailant was a Marlin?” 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Jerar Encarnacion, Marlins, Met-Killers, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido Welcome to another recap in transit! Wednesday night’s game found me on my way to an airplane and ended while I was on said conveyance; Friday night’s began with me wearily navigating a Penske rental truck through New Jersey with Joshua as my co-pilot and supplier of Mets news. (More than you want to know: My […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Ghosts, Gosuke Katoh, Hate, Jeffrey Loria, Marlins, Pedro Lopez, Pete Alonso, Tommy Nance |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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