It’s the time of the year meant for looking ahead. To Carson Benge not being Don Bosch. To Vidal Bruján and Mike Tauchman potentially making themselves more useful than Bill Pecota. To Nolan McLean overcoming vertigo-like symptoms so he can pitch in the WBC, then not getting hurt in the WBC (which goes for all […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1979 Mets, Anticipation, Ballpark Revenue, Carlos Beltran, Carly Simon, Charles Payson, Currently Unsigned, Doug Flynn, Five Dollar Tuesdays, Franchise Leaderboard, Frank Cashen, Frank Taveras, Future, Hit By Pitch, J.D. Martinez, Jack Lang, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Kent, Jesse Winker, Joe Adcock, Joe Morgan, Joe Torre, Juan Lagares, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Lorinda de Roulet, March, Max Scherzer, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Old Friends, Perceptions, Pickleball, Retirement, Rhys Hoskins, Ruben Gomez, Shea Stadium, Spring Training, Starling Marte, Team History, Tom Boswell, Travis d'Arnaud, Vertigo-Like Symptoms, Wilmer Flores, Winter Leagues, World Baseball Classic, Zack Wheeler For those keeping adjustable score of very recent, relatively quiet Met offseason acquisitions at home, you can pencil in the following: Righthanded pitcher Yuhi Sako. A southpaw counterpart named Brandon Waddell. Jared Young, who plays first. Catcher Chris Williams. Righty Griffin Canning, who maddeningly contained Met bats one day last summer, so I can say, “Him I’ve heard of.” If you […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2025 Mets, Alex Reyes, Brandon Waddell, Carlos Beltran, Chris Williams, Culture, Dave Winfield, David Stearns, Gary Carter, Griffin Canning, Howie Rose, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Mike Hampton, Mike Piazza, Offseason Bookkeeping, Perceptions, Pete Alonso, Randy Keisler, Steve Cohen, Team History, Terry Collins, Yuhi Sako The Mets won their 67th game ever at Turner Field on Sunday, or as reliable sources continue to insist, “They never won there; even if you present me with a list of occasionally stirring Met victories in that ballpark, I refuse to acknowledge it.” Mets fans who prefer misery as company (and there are a […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Braves, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Peaches, Perceptions, Seth Lugo, Turner Field, Yoenis Cespedes The more you watch baseball and the more you mature as a person, the less you are inclined to blithely dismiss the people who play the game in a glib, pejorative fashion. For example, it would have been shallow and unfair of me to have thought, in 2011, “My god, Chris Capuano and Chris Young […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Perceptions, West Coast Trips |
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