Today we reach that year in the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown when I have to admit I went to sleep sometime in early April and woke up sometime in early November. That must be what happened, because I don’t seem to have any memories of anything that could […]
 
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 |  2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dreams, Fathers and Sons, Matt Harvey, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Maz, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes The man used sweat and rosin, he said. He said it a lot. He repeated it enough so that I believed him, which doesn’t always work. The pitcher doth protest too much, methinks might be applicable here, except the pitcher pitches for the Mets and Met-think is how methinks. Besides, this is Max Scherzer in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Ejection, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, Max Scherzer, Noah Syndergaard, Rosin, Suspension, Sweat, The Manchurian Candidate, Umpiring Meditations on time before and during watching Clayton Kershaw toy with various Mets: The Dodgers are forever. I started watching baseball in earnest in 1976, when I was seven, and learned the game by memorizing the backs of baseball cards, scouring a cinderblock-sized Baseball Encyclopedia, and devouring various books checked out from the Emma S. Clark […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Clayton Kershaw, David Wright, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Eduardo Escobar, Noah Syndergaard, Sentiment, Time If Cole Porter were still with us, I can hear him having a field day with the results of the 2022 World Series. You’re the top Whoever dug deep for the sportsmanship to declare, before the Fall Classic began, “may the best team win,” got their wish. The best team […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Astros, Cole Porter, Dusty Baker, Edwin Diaz, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, T-shirts, World Series, World Series Ending, Zack Wheeler I’m assuming the five-day interregnum between the conclusion of the League Championship Series and the commencing of the World Series was built into the postseason by MLB this year to give us time to get used to the nearly unfathomable presence of the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Fall Classic. But here we are, four days […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Billy Joel, Brad Hand, Don Buddin, Noah Syndergaard, pH Factor, Phantom Pain, Phillies, Rafael Montero, Zack Wheeler Hey old friends One day chums New friends pour 1. Noah Syndergaard Juan Lagares 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Amed Rosario, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Khalil Lee, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Old Friends, Oliver Perez, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sharing the story of how Nanette Fluhr’s painting “Lonny,” a portrait of her son in a Mets cap and Mets jersey, was going to be digitzed and travel to the Moon. Quick addendum: that piece that appeared on FAFIF will be getting the same treatment […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Internal Affairs, Lonny, Lunar Codex, Nanette Fluhr, Noah Syndergaard, The Moon Noah Syndergaard was one of my two favorite Mets. I’ve written before about why I loved Syndergaard, so here’s the abridged version: When he was at his (admittedly brief) peak, he had the best stuff I’d ever seen a pitcher command. The short version was “triple-digit fastball, vicious slider, evil change-up, pretty good curve” but that […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Departures, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard It’s not a trade in the sense that the Mets and Angels got together and exchanged personnel that they had any contractual right to exchange. Billy Eppler hasn’t worked for the Angels for a while. Noah Syndergaard entered free agency. That the former Angels GM is reportedly heading east to take the same job with […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2022 Mets, Arrivals, Billy Eppler, Departures, General Manager, Noah Syndergaard Wayne Randazzo wasn’t wrong Tuesday when he outlined ways baseball could speed up its action. Specifically, he preached adoption of a pitch clock like that used in the minors to get games moving faster and, ultimately, over faster. But his partner du jour, Lee Mazzilli, wasn’t wrong, either, when he asked Wayne in apparent sincerity, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Ed Grimley, Lee Mazzilli, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, September, Twilight |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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