The second chapter of the perfect season completed itself Saturday, confirming that every good vibe we felt on Thursday was accurate. The Mets are 2-0 after beating St. Louis at Citi Field, 6-2. Clearly, they’ve gotten the hang of baseball and need only repeat everything they’ve done […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Gonzalez, Al Weis, Alberto Castillo, Danny Heep, Endy Chavez, Jacob deGrom, Joe McEwing, Juan Lagares, Matt Franco, Opening Day, Opening Day Lineups, Phillip Evans, Players Who Didn't Start on Opening Day, Ray Knight, Rod Kanehl, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Travis d'Arnaud They scheduled a baseball game in the northeastern United States for March 29 and snow was on the ground within a week of its first pitch. Imagine that. You’ll have a harder time imagining the baseball being played under climate conditions ideally associated with the sport in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jack Hamilton, Jacob deGrom, Jason Jacome, Jay Hook, Moment of Silence, Nino Espinosa, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day Starters, Ray Burris, Second Game Starters, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tracy Stallard Since New York and environs have been subject to the whims of nor’easters lately, let’s amble out to the northeast of the standard baseball field diagram and consider right field and its most practiced Metsian occupants thereof. We could forecast the weather, but the weather is revealing […] The Oscars were handed out Sunday night. Thus, per Monday morning-after tradition, the Academy pauses to remember those Mets who have, in the baseball sense, left us in the past year. ADAM ROBERT WILK
The old adage “if you wanna win a ballgame, you gotta be able to triple” doesn’t exist, but based on foundational Mets lore, maybe it oughta. In their first nine games of existence, the Mets totaled 68 hits. Eight were doubles, twelve were homers, the rest were singles. All of the games were losses. In […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2009 Mets, Al Leiter, Amed Rosario, Bobby Gene Smith, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Butler, Bud Harrelson, Cory Sullivan, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Flynn, Eric Cammack, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Lance Johnson, Marlon Anderson, Mookie Wilson, Ruben Tejada, Sammy Taylor, Team History, Triples, Victor Zambrano, Willie Montanez When the expansion draft rolled around on October 8, 1961, the one conceived to simultaneously create and cripple the New York Mets as a nominally competitive entity, George Weiss attempted to build a winning pitching staff from not too many wins. The seven pitchers he chose — Roger Craig, Craig Anderson, Ray Daviault, Al Jackson, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ambiorix Burgos, Erstwhile 18-Game Winners, Jane Leavy, Jason Vargas, Mickey Lolich, Pitcher Wins, Sandy Koufax, Team History Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees When New Year’s Eve, a.k.a. my birthday, falls on a Sunday, as it does this weekend, I am put in mind of the Sunday birthday I celebrated when I turned 10, a scant 45 years ago. It was the day I discovered the year-end countdown, specifically the Top 79 songs of 1972 as offered up […] Richie Ashburn, someday to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, was voted an honor nearly as historic as he neared his retirement as an active player. The writers who covered the 1962 Mets chose him as the franchise’s first-ever Most Valuable Player. The 1962 Mets lost 120 games, calling into question the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Most Valuable Met, PItching, Richie Ashburn, Team History Happy Tom Seaver’s Birthday! No. 41 is 73 today. He’s also No. 1 forever, not only in all the ways we usually think, but in a very specific, sort of timely way. Tom Seaver was the first National League East Most Valuable Player. The what? OK, so it’s a mythical award, but it’s based in reality and, besides, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Mike Piazza, NL East MVP, Team History, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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